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RUNO Offsite  ·  Corporate Programme  ·  Georgia · Bali · Cyprus

What did your last offsite actually change?

Four days in a place that isn't the office, doing something that isn't work. Shared creation in the ART track, shared challenge in the SPORT track — designed to build the kind of bonds a call never will.

Duration

4 days / 3 nights

Group size

30 – 600 people

From

$900 / person

Destinations

Georgia · Bali · Cyprus

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Why most offsites don't work

Three Problems
This Format Solves

01

Nothing actually changes

People fly in, sit through sessions, have dinner, fly home. Two weeks later the team is working exactly as before. The friction that was there before is still there. The budget is spent and the dynamic is identical.

02

Generic activities tell you nothing new

Wine tastings and cooking classes are pleasant and immediately forgettable. They don't create the kind of shared reference a team draws on later. They don't tell you anything about the person across the table that you didn't already know.

03

The logistics land on one person

Venue search, accommodation, meals, transfers, dietary requirements, practitioner sourcing, invoicing — all of it falls on one person in HR or operations. They spend a month doing logistics before the programme has been defined, and arrive exhausted.

What It Is

A Programme,
Not a Trip

RUNO produces corporate offsites from brief to debrief — venue, accommodation, meals, transport, working sessions, and six afternoon practice sessions with local practitioners. Three destinations: Georgia, Bali, Cyprus.

The team flies in. Everything else is in place. Mornings belong to you — your agenda, your facilitator, your room. Afternoons belong to the programme: three to four hours with a local practitioner in a discipline the team chose together. Focused work in the morning, shared creation or challenge in the afternoon — that combination is what changes the texture of a team.

Format 4 days / 3 nights, all-inclusive
Mornings Working sessions — RUNO stays out
Afternoons Six practice sessions with practitioners
Evenings Dinner; closing night: destination ritual
Tracks ART · SPORT · Mixed
Flights Not included — everything else is

Where we produce

Three Destinations,
One Standard

Georgia — Kakheti
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Georgia

Kakheti · Black Sea coast

Mountains Vineyards Polyphonic choir Supra

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Georgia

Kakheti · Black Sea coast

Ancient polyphonic singing tradition, eight-thousand-year winemaking history, terrain that runs from Kakhetian vineyards to alpine mountain and Black Sea coast. The ART track has deep material here. The SPORT track has the landscape. The closing evening follows a supra — a Georgian feast with a tamada who sets the arc of the night.

TerrainMountains, vineyards, Black Sea
TraditionPolyphonic choir, ceramics, wine
Closing nightGeorgian supra
Flights3–4h from most of Europe
Bali
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Bali

Tabanan

Jungle Rice fields Balinese craft Gamelan

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Bali

Tabanan, Bali

Bali's quieter western coast — jungle, rice fields, studios, and collaborative infrastructure built for exactly this kind of work. The Balinese craft tradition is unusually deep: carving, natural dyeing, gamelan, offering-making. The SPORT track uses the terrain and the ocean. The closing evening is outdoors, by the water.

TerrainJungle, coast, rice fields
TraditionBalinese craft, gamelan, natural dye
Closing nightOutdoor feast by the water
FlightsDirect from major Asian hubs
Cyprus — Limassol
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Cyprus

Limassol

Mediterranean Sailing Old port Tech hub

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Cyprus

Limassol

Limassol has become one of the most concentrated hubs of relocated tech and product teams in Europe. EU territory, easy connections, a Mediterranean coast, and an archaeological depth that gives the ART track real material. The SPORT track uses the sea: sailing, open-water, coastal trail. The closing dinner is in the old port.

TerrainMediterranean coast, archaeology
TraditionCypriot ceramics, mosaic, wine
Closing nightSeafront dinner, old port
Flights3–4h from most of Europe

What the Team Gets

Three Outcomes,
Designed In

01

People who were avatars become legible

Distributed teams work with versions of each other — a Slack handle, a camera-off call, a name on a doc. Four days in a different environment, doing things that have nothing to do with the job, changes that. The person who was unreadable over async becomes someone the team now knows how to work with. That legibility travels back into every future interaction.

02

A shared reference the team didn't have

Distributed teams run on shared context — and most of it is transactional. What they rarely have is a shared story. The product manager who held their part in a choir for the first time will be referenced in a retrospective six months later. These are the moments that make a team feel like one.

03

The conversation that couldn't happen on a call

Something unresolved surfaces in a completely different context and actually gets said. Not because there was a facilitated session about it — but because the setting lowered the cost of honesty. Teams that have been misaligned for months often find the four days do more than six months of retrospectives. The format doesn't force it. It makes it possible.

Programme Structure

A Typical Day

Morning & Afternoon

08:30 – 09:30

Breakfast at the venue

Provided at accommodation. No group agenda until the working session begins.

10:00 – 13:00

Working session

Your agenda, your facilitator. RUNO handles the room setup, AV, and coffee. We are not in the room.

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

Prepared lunch at the venue or a short transfer to a nearby restaurant. Included.

14:30 – 18:30

Practice session

3–4 hours with a local practitioner. ART or SPORT track, or mixed. No prior experience required.

Evening

19:30 – 22:00

Dinner

Evenings one through three: dinner at selected local restaurants. Included.

Last evening

Closing dinner

The last evening follows a destination-specific format. In Georgia: a supra — a long table, traditional food, and toasts led by a tamada. In Bali: an outdoor feast by the water. In Cyprus: a seafront dinner in Limassol's old port.

Throughout

Transfers

All transport between accommodation, working sessions, discipline locations, and restaurants is coordinated and included. No logistics fall on the team.

Afternoon Sessions

Six Practices
Per Track

Each session runs 3–4 hours and is led by a local practitioner. The group works toward a specific output — a recording, an object, a performance. No prior experience required. Groups can mix tracks across the four days.

ART Track Sound · Move · Sing · Build · See · Write

Sound

Modular synthesizers. The group experiments with electronic sound — loops, textures, a composition. Something is recorded by the end.

Sound

Move

Contemporary dance and performance with a choreographer. About how bodies communicate and what changes when people move together.

Move

Sing

Choir and vocal improvisation. The task is ensemble — listening, holding your part while others hold theirs.

Sing

Build

Sculpture and costume lab. Clay, fabric, found materials. Something is made and kept. Physical, tactile, done together.

Build

See

Photography and film. Assignment, shoot, edit. About looking at what is actually there rather than what is expected.

See

Write

Poetry or free writing with a writer — specific task, constraint, time limit. The output is read aloud.

Write
SPORT Track Yoga · Run · Climb · Horse · Bike · Row*

Yoga

A session on the hotel grounds, led by an experienced practitioner. Adapted for all levels. Outdoors where conditions allow.

Yoga

Run

A guided run through the hotel grounds and surrounding countryside. The practitioner sets the pace and the stops.

Run

Climb

A bouldering or rope session on a portable wall at the venue. Individual effort, collective witness.

Climb

Horse

An equestrian session on the hotel grounds. For most participants a first encounter — there are things you can only learn from an animal that doesn't respond to hierarchy.

Horse

Bike

A guided cycling route through the countryside. Bikes provided. The route is chosen for what it opens up — not for difficulty or speed.

Bike

Row *

A rowing session on the water — technique, rhythm, synchrony. Available at venues with a lake or river on site.

Row

Why RUNO

The Production
Behind the Programme

RUNO is new as a standalone offsite product. The production experience behind it is not.

100+

Commissions completed — from contemporary opera at the Bolshoi and city-scale festivals to diplomatic receptions, luxury brand launches, and international corporate productions.

1M+

Peak attendance across a single commission — Gorky Park 90th Anniversary Festival, Moscow, 2018. Nine days. International headliners. Full festival production at city scale.

20+

Years of combined production leadership behind each RUNO commission — spanning festival direction, spatial design, technical execution, and cultural programming across two countries.

FORGE

In-house fabrication workshop, Tbilisi. Custom tables, installations, and set elements — built, not subcontracted. The BUILD discipline session is physically possible only because of FORGE. No other offsite provider can offer it.

Pricing

All-Inclusive,
One Number

From, per person

$900+

All-inclusive · Minimum 30 people

Final price varies by group size, venue selection, accommodation standard, and track configuration. International flights are not included — everything else is.

What's included

  • Venue for working sessions and practice sessions
  • Accommodation — 3 nights
  • All meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, closing dinner
  • All transfers in-city and between locations
  • Six practice sessions with practitioners
  • Working session room setup (AV, coffee, materials)
  • Full production management by Julia Knos
  • On-site RUNO coordination throughout
  • International flights
  • Personal expenses and optional excursions

Common Questions

Before You Ask

The questions HR leaders and team leads ask before they bring this to a decision-maker.

Our engineers won't do a singing session.

The SPORT track exists for exactly this. And in both tracks — every session is designed for people with zero experience. The practitioners work with non-specialists regularly. Groups can also mix tracks across the four days, so no one is locked into one format for the whole programme.

We've never heard of RUNO.

The portfolio: State of Qatar diplomatic reception in St. Petersburg — 500 guests, UN-level protocol. Gorky Park 90th anniversary festival — over one million visitors. Chanel Tbilisi campaign launch, Bentley Museum Experience. The agency is new as a standalone brand; the production experience behind it is not.

How complicated is the logistics for each destination?

Georgia: direct flights from most European hubs, Dubai, Istanbul, and Tel Aviv — visa-free for most nationalities, 3–4 hour flight from Europe. Bali: 12–16 hours from Europe, closer for teams in Asia. Cyprus–Limassol: EU territory, easy connections from anywhere in Europe, 3–4 hours. In all three cases, RUNO handles everything on the ground. The complicated is our job, not yours.

How does $900/person compare?

It's all-inclusive: venue, accommodation for 3 nights, all meals, transfers, six discipline sessions with practitioners. A comparable European retreat — Barcelona, Lisbon, Amsterdam — typically runs $1,200–1,800 per person without programme design. The $900 includes what others charge extra for, or don't provide at all.

How does this work for 100 or 200 people?

Parallel discipline sessions run simultaneously, with group rotations across the four days. The format is designed for scale — groups of 30 to 600 use the same structure, with the number of parallel tracks adjusted accordingly. One production team handles the whole thing.

Who is the point of contact once we start?

Julia Knos handles all production logistics for every RUNO offsite. One call, one contact, one person accountable for the whole programme. The HR leader does not coordinate venues, transfers, or discipline practitioners — that's Julia's job from the first planning call through the final debrief.

Contact

Tell Us About Your Brief

One conversation is enough to understand whether this format is right for your team — and what a programme for your group size and timing would look like. No sales deck, no pitch. Just the questions that matter.

anna@weareruno.com  ·  julia@weareruno.com  ·  +995 555 21 22 16

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