PAUSE for Community in Schools and Organizations

Cultivate well-being, realize your purpose, and serve the greater good.

Realizing Self-Leadership in Community by Supporting YOUR Well-Being First.

Teaching and leading in today’s world can feel exhausting, disempowering and at times, hopeless.

Youth are struggling academically, socially, emotionally and personally.
Families are often stressed and are either disengaged from the school community or needing extra support.
Faculty/Staff retention and job satisfaction are low, while burnout and exhaustion are high.
Leadership Teams are faced with incredible odds and are blamed and held responsible for a fractured system.

You give 100% to show up for your students, your colleagues and your community, often sacrificing your own well-being. You and your team have implemented so many initiatives and programs, but they often just feel like more to do while not getting at the root of the matter. How do you continue to work toward meaningful solutions while caring for yourself?

There is another way through PAUSE for Self-Leadership™

The foundation for all success in the school and business environment depends on individual and interpersonal well-being - emotional regulation, effective communication, compassionate connection and collaboration.

PAUSE for Self-Leadership™ supports you with the tools to care for yourself so that you can show up as fully as possible for youth and your community, and in doing so, more fully help them realize their potential.

Results of the PAUSE Model

Transform Your Community Through PAUSE

Move beyond reactions to respond intentionally together — build trust, improve communication and create stronger relationships across your learning community.
Realize your collective potential by optimizing the power of interpersonal Self-leadership. Create a ripple effect, one interaction at a time.

How PAUSE works in Community

With PAUSE as a way of working together, you will see improved

Self-awareness and self-regulation: Attending to internal reactive patterns effectively, increasing calm, clarity and confidence.
Productive Communication: Expanding ability to communicate needs, and perspectives, de-escalate tensions and give feedback.
Positive Morale and Culture: Feeling valued, encouraged and inspired to contribute their best catalyzing purposeful engagement at all levels of community.
Quality Contribution: Engaging with enthusiasm and commitment to the quality of work and for optimal results.
Collaborative Productivity: Exploring multiple perspectives, fuel innovation and make impactful decisions.
Effective Response rather than Impulsive Reactions: Reducing misunderstandings and escalation to higher-level intervention, and increasing beneficial outcomes.

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Self-Leadership Collaboration: The 4 I’s Roadmap

Rather than doing more - more meetings, more tools, more initiatives - our power to function optimally and make change arises from shifting how we are together amidst all we do: calm, compassionate, and collaborative, as we take purposeful action together.

A Unique Solution for Schools and Organizations Serving Community:

PAUSE for Self-Leadership offers a paradigm shift and practical framework to shift how all community members engage with greater compassion and effectiveness in daily interactions and activities.

Transformative and Individualized - Inspired by Internal Family Systems, a cutting-edge psychotherapeutic approach, PAUSE provides simple, accessible concepts and skills to support everyone to realize optimal potential and compassionate relationships.
Systemic and Integrative – Addresses needs of students and adults at all levels of the school system, from proactive classroom exercises to specialized behavior interventions, to school-wide culture and climate plans. PAUSE complements and integrates with existing programs and initiatives.
Sustainable and Relevant – PAUSE principles and concepts become a way of being that can be creatively implemented and culturally adapted, providing tools and practices relevant over time as the unique needs of the community evolve.