ROOT ASTROLABE
The device-free leadership accelerator for founders, funders, and operators.
Root Astro is ninety minutes from Manhattan. Co-founded by Lee Arthur and Marsha Prospere, it runs three formats: Still Point, The Bearing, and Highland. Guests surrender their phones at arrival and don't get them back until they leave, trading the dashboard for a compass and the always-on habits of running a company for navigation, fire-building, and unscheduled time. Every guest leaves carrying a handwritten 90-Day Bearing.
THE ASTROLABE METHODOLOGY
The Astrolabe Methodology works in two modes. Stillness slows a nervous system that has not stopped in years and returns you to your own thinking. Strength tests that thinking against terrain that does not care who you are. The two together are patient and adversarial to return mind and body to agreement. You leave with the instrument trued and a 90-Day Bearing in your own hand.
An immersive experience that strips away noise and recalibrates your internal compass.
Training in ancient practices: journaling, navigation, observation. Building cognitive resilience through doing, not consuming.
A structured integration period that ensures transformation becomes permanent operating capacity.
RETREATS
Find the center.
Solo residency. No group. No agenda. Just quiet in the Catskill foothills.
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Cut through the noise.
Solo founders join a curated cohort for structured rest and challenge in the Catskills. Includes 90-Day Return weekend.
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Lead from higher ground.
Intact teams. Physical challenge, shared effort, and resilience forged in the mountains.
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41.4739° N 74.5401° W
ELV 840 FT POLARIS ALT 41°
Located in Westbrookville, NY, 90 minutes from New York City. Glamping yurts on raised wooden platforms, a separate wooden bath house with steam room and saunas, and chef-prepared nutrition. Everything designed to remove friction and return you to what matters.
Explore the Land
Root Astro is building toward a future where these experiences are not reserved for executives. Participant fees support pathways for inner-city youth who have never navigated by stars, built a fire, or spent a night in silence. The same methodology that restores a CEO's capacity for presence can awaken a teenager's capacity for possibility.
THE BROADER MISSION
Leadership restoration at the top.
Human restoration at the root.
THE BOOK
"The hardest thing you will ever do is not an ultramarathon or a boardroom standoff. It is sitting alone with the question you have been outrunning for years."
Read Chapter One →Get chapters as they drop. A book about the things we avoid, and what happens when we stop.
"Anyone who suspects the cost of their current pace is higher than they're admitting, read this."
Sonia Omar, GTM Director
The cost of a distracted mind is not abstract. UC Irvine researcher Gloria Mark spent years sending observers into real workplaces to time knowledge workers to the second: after a single interruption, it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to return to the original task. A phone surrendered at the door is not a wellness gesture. It is the only intervention long enough to let that recovery actually finish.
Join the next cohort of leaders engaging in the radical act of undivided attention.
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