About Self-Leadership Collaborative
The Self-Leadership Collaborative (SLC), established in 2017, is a global leader and educational organization, adapting the psychological framework of Internal Family Systems (IFS) for everyday application. We equip individuals and teams with the capacity to cultivate emotional well-being and relational health.
SLC, supported by generous grants from the Foundation for Self Leadership, developed and piloted a curricular framework to bring IFS to schools and conduct program evaluation. Initially working with a handful of schools in Connecticut in the United States, the PAUSE model has now been embraced and integrated by community and educational leaders and practitioners in locations around the globe.
SLC’s core facilitation team includes professionals who have specialized in the PAUSE model and IFS, and bring a lifetime of expertise from their respective fields as community leaders, administrators, educators, psychologists and business coaches. They offer training, coaching and consulting both online and in person for individuals and specific learning and organizational communities. Reach out if you are interested to learn more.
Practicing the PAUSE model inspires the SLC team in sustaining our collaborative spirit, sharing our collective wisdom, designing dynamic learning spaces and engaging in continuous innovation and refinement, promising that you will be offered an expert-guided and relevant experience in all our workshops and services.
Meet the Founder
Joanna Curry-Sartori, LMFT
With over twenty-five years of experience counseling individuals and families, and facilitating workshops and retreats for young people, parents, educators and community leaders, Joanna’s work centers on uncovering our power to be self-led together as we respond collaboratively to the needs of our communities.
After working with leadership in schools and organizations for over 15 years, Joanna recognized that many programs and initiatives teaching emotional regulation and interpersonal skills weren’t addressing the root issues where people were getting stuck and what they needed to step out of fear-based self-protection and step into optimal functioning, Self-leadership. In 2011, Joanna learned about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and recognized a profound psychological model and a transformative paradigm to explain and guide productive, collaborative relationships.
In 2017, Joanna founded Self-Leadership Collaborative with a vision to lead a global movement to adapt and apply the essential wisdom of IFS for everyday life for people of all ages, contexts and cultures.
Presales are open for Joanna’s new book.
The Self-led Educator: An IFS-inspired guide to create calm, compassionate and creative learning communities
A New Way of Being Starts Here
Unlock your power to connect and collaborate more deeply with yourself and others through the PAUSE Model.