Power Pauses
For Your Team
For Your Team
Interactive Experiences that create
connection, support & insight
connection, support & insight
Power Pauses For Your Team
Interactive Experiences that create
connection, support & insight
connection, support & insight
Power Pauses work beautifully as one-time, annual, or biannual value-add experiences for groups that grow and learn together, support each other or work together including: professional associations, networks, affinity group, organizations, and communities — as well as for internal groups within organizations such as ERGs, leadership programs, affinity groups, and cross-functional teams that collaborate.
Each Power Pause creates a shared experience of reflection, connection, and forward focus. Individual participants step back to acknowledge how far they’ve come and, from that grounded place of awareness and appreciation, look ahead to what they want to shift, where to focus, and how to move forward with greater clarity and purpose.
The Benefits of Pausing for Individual Participants
- Prevent burnout and overwhelm by creating space to pause and reset.
- Celebrate progress and impact — and actually feel the success of
your efforts. - Acknowledge challenges honestly and identify the support needed to move forward.
- Gain clarity on how to focus energy, time, mindshare, and resources where they matter most.
- Break larger goals or aspirations into smaller cycles to prioritize what’s needed now & reflow what can come later.
- Create a greater sense of stability and groundedness in times of uncertainty and change.
The Benefits of Pausing for the Group or Community
FOR WORKPLACE OR ORGANIZATIONAL GROUPS
- Strengthen relationships, trust, and collaboration across roles and functions.
- Build a shared sense of direction, purpose, and alignment within the larger organization.
- Foster goodwill and connection toward the leaders or sponsors who invest in their people through this experience.
- Enable participants to better support one another in achieving shared goals and priorities.
FOR PROFESSIONAL OR PURPOSE-DRIVEN NETWORKS OR COMMUNITIES
- Cultivate genuine connection, belonging, and mutual support among members.
- Provide a shared space for reflection, inspiration, and renewal.
- Help members see their progress and impact, both personally and within their broader field or mission.
- Create a lasting sense of momentum and purpose that carries into their work, leadership, and lives.
People leave feeling re-energized, focused, and supported — connected not only to their priorities, but to each other — ready to move into the next cycle with renewed momentum.
Different Ways We Can Work with Your Group
There are many ways to create a meaningful Power Pause experience — whether you’re closing out a year, beginning a new one, or simply sensing your people need to pause and reset.
Here are a few ideas to inspire what’s possible:
- Year-End Power Pause – Reflect on the year as a group: acknowledge successes, challenges, and learnings; witness and celebrate one another; and leave inspired and renewed for what’s next.
- Year-Start Power Pause – Set clear and inspired intentions for the cycle ahead — personally and professionally — to begin the year with focus, energy, and alignment.
- March or September Power Pause – Pause mid-cycle to address overwhelm and unsustainable pace. Reset for balance and sustainable success and wellbeing, recommitting to professional and personal goals, desires and needs.
Each Power Pause can be customized to fit your group’s timing, goals, and culture — virtually or in person — to create an experience that supports both achievement and wellbeing.
Participants experience the power of visual thinking,
receive guidebooks that stimulate creativity, and we summarize the insights gained, so it’s not just another talk or meeting…
it’s an experience that connects on multiple levels & keeps giving long after the session.
“Your Mid-Year Power Pause is the session I’ve got the most out of all year!
I am taking away how important it is for me to take time to pause regularly.. A lot to reflect on! Thank you for sharing this wisdom with our Leading Women In Technology leadership cohort.”
Katie, Leadership Program Cohort Member
“Taking time to reflect on our year put us in such a positive perspective.
The gift of time, reflection, and self-appreciation gave us space to share what we’re proud of ourselves for achieving, relieving that self-inflicted sense that we’re always behind.
As the leaders of people within our organization who rarely get a opportunity to have meaningful personal conversations with each other, we realized how similar many of our challenges are — we’re all juggling so much. That shared understanding created connection, compassion, and encouragement we didn’t even know we needed.”
Chief People Officer, Sponsor of Power Pause for organizations Team Leaders
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CO-CREATORS &
FACILITATORS
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OF THE STRATEGIC POWER PAUSE SYSTEM FOR TEAMS, GROUPS & LEADERS
Different Ways We Can Work with You
The Power Pause Cyclical Planning & Wellbeing Methodology was born from our shared passion to bridge creativity and productivity, intellect and intuition — bringing a more human, holistic, and practical way of planning into how people and teams work… that could actually create sustainable success.
Developed and refined over more than a decade, this proprietary system has been tested within organizations and groups of all kinds — from teams, leadership programs, and ERGs to professional associations, nonprofits, and creative communities — across industries including technology, finance, education, and the arts.
Christine Arylo, MBA brings the strategic leadership, planning expertise, and human-centered systems design behind the Power Pause models. A transformational leadership advisor, teacher, and best-selling author, she helps leaders and teams create new ways of working that generate meaningful results and sustainable success.
Katherine Torrini brings the visual magic and strategic creativity that bring Power Pauses to life. As a visual facilitator, illustrator, and creative catalyst, she helps people think and collaborate in new ways — using art and imagination to make strategy visible and inspire connection, insight, and action.
The Power Behind the Power Pause
Visual Thinking
Bio-mimicry
Strategic Intuitive Inquiry
Power Pauses You Can Try Out for Yourself
– Our Personal Leadership Edition
– Our Personal Leadership Edition
Throughout the year we invite emerging and established leaders to take a Personal Leadership Power Pause, an adaptation of the work we do with organizations, teams and groups–our gift to you.
Enjoy this process as a self-paced leadership retreat to get centered and clear as an individual, so you can show up as your best self, stay focused on what matters, and take care of your people and your mission.
While the Personal Leadership Editions are different from the Strategic Power Pauses for Teams, they give you a taste of the bigger methodology. If you resonate with our approach and want to bring us in to work with your team or group, we’d be happy to support you!
Choose your time of year and get the guidebook
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