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PAUSE for Self-Leadership Everyday:
Equip yourself and your clients with
5 IFS-Inspired Steps for Self-care
A 2-Day Online Workshop
February 19 & 20, 2027
PAUSE for Self-Leadership Everyday: A 2-Day Online Workshop with Joanna Curry-Sartori, the founder of this model.
February 19th & 20th, 2027
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION....
As a therapist, coach, or caregiver, you spend your days supporting meaningful self-discovery and growth in others. But how do you care for yourself while caring for those you serve? How do you sustain your own well-being, attune to your inner needs, and stay grounded amid the demands of daily work and responsibility? And how do you help your clients deepen and sustain their healing between sessions?
Join us to explore PAUSE for Self-Leadership, a five-step model inspired by Internal Family Systems (IFS), designed to help us tend to our own inner experience while engaging with others and navigating everyday stressors.
PAUSE offers a practical framework for acknowledging and attending to our inner system of parts, reconnecting with Self-Leadership, and responding to ourselves and others with greater clarity, compassion, and effectiveness. It translates the profound wisdom of the IFS model into an accessible, everyday practice—both in and beyond the therapeutic space.
Come together in community with fellow therapists, coaches, and caregivers to care for yourself while caring for one another as we PAUSE. Discover a simple, practical, and transformative process that helps you truly walk the talk, deepen resilience, and unlock your power to led from SELF as you care for and inspire others to do the same
THIS WORKSHOP IS OPEN TO ALL THERAPISTS, COACHES, CAREGIVERS, AND LEADERS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE PRIOR IFS EXPERIENCE.
WHY TAKE THIS ONLINE WORKSHOP...
As Therapists, Coaches, Caregivers, or Leaders, we often focus on others but struggle to notice and attend to our own needs and reactions in our busy days of service.
We can all benefit from IFS inspired tools for self-care, to build self awareness and
attend to our own parts, as they are caring for others. Self-care for us is an ethical imperative to both show up as our best self and also to mitigate misuse and abuse of power in the role.
Additionally, your clients can benefit from a tool to support their understanding,
integration and practice of IFS practices in their everyday lives as parts arise.
WHAT WILL I LEARN....
Participants will leave being able to articulate how they show up when they are their authentic Self and identify their pathways back to Self while working.
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Recognize and share the parts that commonly arise in their role and in response to daily stressors.
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Learn and experience an intuitive and accessible IFS-informed process to attend to their own parts in real time (an additional process that is embedded in PAUSE).
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Understand the elements and essence of PAUSE as a simple, IFS-inspired model to attune to ourselves, interact with others and choose action while holding awareness of Self and parts.
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Consider the relevance and application of PAUSE for their own everyday well-being and explore their personalized approach to sustain wellbeing amidst daily responsibilities.
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Discover how to simply and effectively share PAUSE with clients as a self-care tool.
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Leave with motivating intentions and a practical plan to increase Self-care practices aimed at personal and professional transformation.
WHAT TO EXPECT DURING THE WORKSHOP
Micro Pause practices to attune to your inner experience and attend to signals of Self and stress (protective parts).
Explore and describe your experience of Self at work, building your “Self detector”.
Acknowledge work related parts through mapping and embodiment activities.
Speak for your parts with colleagues, building shared appreciation, connection around common experience and needs.
Explore and attend to your underlying motives, needs, and values of parts that drive your work experience.
Explore with a partner to support in depth exploration and listening to “driver” parts.
PAUSE: Follow the process to care for yourself when you are in work related relationships that are activating.
PAUSE for Self-Care to increase connection to personal power and capacity
PAUSE: Follow PAUSE with others to discover interpersonal and self-care possibilities.
ATTENDANCE ELIGIBILTY REQUIREMENTS?
One of the unique aspects of this workshop is its accessibility and inclusivity. No prior experience or training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) is required to attend. Whether you are completely new to the model and simply curious to explore your inner world in a deeper, more embodied way, or you are a seasoned IFS practitioner looking to enrich and deepen your existing practice, this workshop is designed to meet you where you are. The experiential nature of the program allows each participant to engage at their own level, making it equally meaningful for beginners and experienced professionals alike.
A LITTLE ABOUT JOANNA...
Joanna Curry-Sartori, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified IFS practitioner, and founder of the Self Leadership Collaborative (SLC).
Drawing on her deep engagement with the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, Joanna Curry-Sartori developed PAUSE for Self-Leadership™—a practical, accessible framework that translates IFS principles into everyday practices that cultivate calm, compassion, and courage.
In 2017, Joanna founded the Self Leadership Collaborative (SLC), launching a global initiative to adapt IFS for application within school communities—beginning with adult development as the foundation for systemic change. Since then, PAUSE for Self-Leadership has expanded internationally across education, business, and community settings, helping individuals and organizations make Self-leadership both practical and teachable. Joanna's work bridges clinical insight with real-world application, advancing a model of wellbeing that scales beyond therapy into collective systems.
SLC's mission is to bring IFS out of the therapy room and into the fabric of daily life—unlocking greater wellbeing, relational capacity, and collaborative leadership in service of the common good.
Through the Self Leadership Collaborative, Joanna and her team deliver a continuum of workshops, trainings, and certification pathways that equip practitioners worldwide to integrate PAUSE at the individual, interpersonal, team, and organizational levels. To learn more about the Self-Leadership Collaborative, visit their website: www.selfleadershipcollaborative.com.
She is the author of The Self-Led Educator (PESI, 2025), which explores how IFS-informed practices can transform the culture of schools and organizations by starting with adult wellbeing. She has contributed to numerous keynote presentations at annual IFS Conferences and work has also been featured in publications by the Foundation for Self Leadership, including Outlook and Parts & Self. Program evaluation research on PAUSE for Self-Leadership has been conducted and published by Dr. Lindy Johnson of William & Mary.
Joanna lives in West Hartford, Connecticut with her husband and teenage son. She continues to deepen her own practice of self-leadership through enjoying meaningful relationships with friends and family and reflective practices including meditation, yoga, dance, and time in nature.
PAUSE FOR SELF-LEAERSHIP - Workshop particulars
Applications are now open for this live 2-day online workshop with Joanna Curry-Sartori in February, 2027.
This workshop will be delivered over two days as follows:
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Friday, February 19, 2027 - 9am to 4pm, ET, USA
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Saturday, February 20, 2027 - 9am to 4pm, ET, USA
This online workshop is limited to 44 participants and is open to ALL THERAPISTS, COACHES, CAREGIVERS, AND LEADERS.
An application form will be available to you once you register your interest and your place on the workshop will only be confirmed once your $500 USD non-refundable and non-transferable workshop fee is received. We require a minimum of 24 applicants for this workshop to proceed. If we do not get the required numbers for the workshop to proceed, we will refund all fees paid to Souliology for the workshop cost only. Thank you.
Please note: Due to the experiential and sensitive nature of this workshop, it will not be recorded, and no recordings will be provided at any time, including in the event of absence for any reason.
IMPORTANT: Please read our FAQS page on this website. The FAQS page provides general information which you may find useful. If after reading it you have any further questions, please feel free to email us at contact@souliology.com.
PAUSE FOR SELF-LEAERSHIP - A LIVE 2-DAY EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP WITH JOANNA CURRY-SARTORI
2-Day LIVE Online Workshop Schedule – This is a broad outline of what the schedule will look like but please note it is subject to change at Joanna's discretion.
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 - 9am - 4pm ET, USA
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026 - 9am - 4pm ET, USA
Friday - February 19th
Saturday - February 20th
9am – 12pm
12pm - 1pm
1pm - 4pm
9am – 12pm
12pm - 1pm
1pm - 4pm
Morning Session
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Morning Session
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Your Investment:
Total Online Workshop Fee: - $500 (USD) per participant which is strictly non-refundable and non-transferable.
Applications are now open for this online workshop with Joanna Curry-Sartori the founder of PAUSE FOR SELF LEADERSHIP and an expert in her field.
If you are interested in participating, please register your interest. You will then be directed automatically to a registration form for completion. Only applicants who complete a full registration form will be considered for this workshop. Once your registration is approved we will advise you formally by sending you an acceptance email and it is only at this point that we will request a non-refundable and non-transferable workshop fee of $500 (USD) to secure your place on this workshop
IMPORTANT: Please read our FAQS page on this website for further guidelines and information about our policies and the arrangements we have in place in the unlikely event the workshop leader is not in a position to attend. The FAQS page also provides further general information which you may find useful. If after reading the FAQS page you have any further queries, please feel free to email us at contact@souliology.com.
A Final Word....
We spend so much of our lives caring for others, responding, supporting, holding, and helping. In the midst of it all, it can be easy to lose connection with ourselves—to override our own needs, move too quickly past our inner experience, or forget that tending to ourselves is not separate from the work… it IS the work.
PAUSE for Self-Leadership offers a simple yet profound pathway back to yourself. Inspired by the wisdom of IFS, Joanna Curry Sartori’s 5-step model invites us to slow down, acknowledge our inner team of parts, and reconnect with the grounded clarity of Self so we can meet life, relationships, and the demands of caregiving with greater intention and care.
This is not just another workshop. It is an invitation to walk the talk—to care for yourself as deeply as you care for others, while discovering a practical and transformative process to sustain healing, deepen connection, and lead from Self in everyday life.
Apply for the Workshop
This is a new and limited offering, and places are expected to fill quickly.
👉 Apply now to secure your place