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Self-Leadership Collaborative, LLC
Self-Leadership Collaborative, LLC

School Based Learning Events
for educators & families

To inquire email us at: joanna.cs@selfleadershipcollaborative.com

Professional Development: Well-Being for Your Whole Staff:

The Power of PAUSE: Cultivating Our Capacity to be Calm, Connected and Effective Together, 2 hrs

This introductory learning event supports you and your staff to understand and implement the essential of social and emotional capacities captured in the practice of P.A.U.S.E - to benefit adult self care, relationships with students and school-wide culture.

8 Monthly Parcels to Practice P.A.U.S.E: Sustain Well-being Through the Year!

Each month you and your staff are guided in micro practices contained in a parcel.  In addition to brief, practice exercises to follow together, the parcels offer additional simple that reflections, guided meditations, and practical tips that you can integrate in staff and team meetings and implement immediately for practical benefit.  This supports sustained practice and integration of the P.A.U.S.E. model school wide.

The Essential P.A.U.S.E. for School Leaders: Small Cohort, Deep Dive to Lead with Well-being

Formal and informal school leaders join for 8 monthly 2 hour meetings  to delve into each element of P.A.U.S.E.  Through personal practice and interactive exploration, leaders build confidence to implement P.A.U.S.E. as an effective guide for productive interactions all day long. Additionally, they are poised to lead colleagues in following the model and maximizing the power of micro practices woven in the fabric of school life.


Workshops for families and parents:

The Power of PAUSE: Cultivating Our Capacity to be Calm, Connected and Effective.

Families are stressed right now - not only juggling the social, emotional and academic needs of their children (which are great) but responding to the enormous number of changes, losses and stressors at this time.  Bring together parents and family members in your community to learn the essential concepts and skills needed to stay connected, calm, and effective as they navigate through this time.  Offer families the relief and confidence that comes from  knowing how to nurture loving, peaceful, healthy relationships, even in this stressful time.

Would you like to learn more about bringing these presentations to your community?
Email: joanna.cs@selfleadershipcollaborative.com

SCHOOL WIDE MODEL FOR WHOLE SCHOOL CULTURE: How It Works...

The Self-Leadership Collaborative partners with educators and school communities to:

  • Understand and practice the core concepts of the Self-Leadership Collaborative to benefit individual well-being and everyday interactions, personally and professionally. 

  • Explore how to authentically integrate and apply the model with their students and the school at large, within the guidelines of the SLC framework.

Stages of engagement: A road map....

  1. INTRODUCTION: The whole community explores and practices the core concepts and skills of the SLC. Leaders, educators, non-certified staff and parents are invited to try on new understandings and simple practices to profoundly shift the collective capacity to operate from Self-Leadership.

  2. IMPLEMENTATION: Invested community members, formal and informal leaders, participate in small cohorts to engage in in-depth study and practice of the P.A.U.S.E. model realizing it's application for personal well being, peer coaching and student growth.  Ultimately these community leaders serve as "ambassadors",  inspiring sustained engagement and application of the model for school wide practice.

  3. INTEGRATION: Key stakeholders as well the wider community partner with SLC to assess the need,  connect with a shared vision, and develop a customized plan for sustained culture change. Select community leaders are trained by SLC as "Champions" to champion holistic practice and culture shift, guiding system wide alignment with SLC core principles including for school policy, procedure, curriculum development and intervention and discipline strategy.

  There are three ways we engage and partner with educators and school districts:

  1. General Introduction to the SLC model: (Only includes Introduction stage)  We present core concepts and simple, practical skills of the model to large and diverse groups in the school community (leaders, teachers, parents, etc.)  through  1 - 2 hour presentations.

  2. Specialized Groups: (Can include Introduction and Implementation stage) In-depth, customized workshop series focused for specialized school personnel such as support staff, leadership teams, etc.

  3. Systemic Integration: (Includes all 3 stages) The whole community is introduced to the model, then ambassadors learn and practice, and finally select Champions lead full integration of Self-Leadership as a collective way of operating for a comprehensive, sustainable approach.

Self-Leadership is the “Umbrella”

The Self-Leadership Collaborative offers overarching philosophy, framework and practices that can apply to:

Guiding Principles and structure to inform policy, procedures and practices as well as overarching school culture and climate approach.

SEL: Social and Emotional Curriculum for students Pre-K - 12.

Professional Development: Leadership and Staff training to 

  • improve understanding of and relationship with students.

  •  increase self-awareness and self-care.

Health curriculum: A framework to discuss healthy choices re: substance use, eating habits, sexual behaviors, self-care, relationships, etc.

Intervention: A model and tools for crisis, acute and on-going intervention (especially for administrators, school social workers, counselors and psychologists.)

Parent Education: A framework for positive parent education and day to day interactions.

"Nurturing social and emotional emotional well-being in our young people is not only realized through formal school curriculums, but ultimately through our way of being together in the very fabric of our interactions, each and every day. 

As we, the adults in the system, are self-aware, regulating our own state of being, engaging with compassion, confidence, and courage, we guide and "wire" the students to do the same. 


Through our continuous relationships with students, new ways of being are learned and practiced, past hurts are healed, and students are freed to realize their greatest potential. 


Together, we create a community and culture that reflects our innate virtues and empowers us to focus together on the greater good. ”


                             Joanna Curry-Sartori, LMFT (Founder & Executive Director)