THE YEAR-END
POWER PAUSE

It’s our great joy to gift you with our Year-End Power Pause reflection process. Consider it an invitation and intentional way to take space for yourself both as a leader – one who guides, influences & supports so many – AND also as a human being – one who deserves a whole life, in which you are sustained, supported & have space for what matters most to you.

We crafted this as a “personal leadership retreat” you can enjoy this self-paced anytime throughout December to mid January– in one sitting or in segments over a few or several days. Whatever supports you this year.

When you RSVP below, you’ll received the step by step Guidebook, access to a library with videos/audios where we walk you through each step, and an invitation to an optional live Year-Start Intention Setting session on Jan 9th. We’ve got you covered to complete one year cycle and start the next centered, clear and connected to what matters to you.    

THE IMPACT: When you pause to reflect on all you have done + become, you FEEL + SEE the results of the energy, resources and time you’ve given. Your mind + body registers reality in a way that doesn’t occur if you don’t pause to reflect and receive.

When you feel grateful and successful on the inside, you are more likely to focus your life force, time and resources going forward in the coming year on what really matters – professionally, personally and relationally.

Taking a “Power Pause” to complete your year makes a significant difference in how replenished and ready you are in the new year.

Clear within, able to see progress in the past, and opportunity ahead, you can lead and live from your centered leadership presence in the coming year.

THE PROCESS: The Year End Power Pause includes 4 steps

1. REFLECT – review your accomplishments, progress, successes, wins, and impact – professionally & personally
2. RECEIVE – acknowledge – savor and honor – what you have created, caused, and achieved
3. RELEASE – transform the shorts, disappointments, and unexpected challenges
4. RESET – gather wisdom learned from this year and apply it forward into next year, reset focus for your year-end & year-start, and create space to restore and replenish so you go into the new year fresh.

A hand-crafted, illustrated 13-page guidebook that walks you through the 4-step Power Pause. Includes visual thinking templates, intentional inquiries, step-by-step instructions. You write directly in the guidebook (print single sided) or can use your own paper/journal to write in. We recommend hand-writing, but you can also type directly into the PDF if you have Adobe.

Sometimes it’s just better to have someone walk you through an experience, share context and examples, provide creative inspiration, and lead you through step by step (so you can just relax and enjoy the process.) There are videos for each step, including visualizations to help you to slow down and tune in. Engage with all or just some.

Choose to go through in one sitting or over the course of weeks. Do anytime in December through first two weeks of January. You’ll receive guidance & options when you RSVP and gain access to the library. 

We see the Year End and Year Start as a cycle that flows from one to the next vs. a hard stop and start. Jan 1st after all is a man-made date for the new year. In wisdom-led leadership we take the whole of January to set intentions personally and professionally. No resolutions, pressure to hit the ground running or make up for the indulgences of the holiday.

Instead we create space to tune into where you already have momentum created + where to best focus your life force and resources in the year to come … in all realms of our lives as leaders and humans.

We facilitated a live 2026 Creating from Momentum intention setting session on Friday, January 9th. We recorded it along with a guidebook. You’ll receive access when you register.

Katherine Torrini is a graphic recorder, facilitator and strategic illustrator who has brought her visual magic to the likes of NASA, Dell, Coca-Cola, Chevron, AT&T, Southwest Airlines and The Institute for the Future. The common thread through all of Katherine’s work is her passion for reconnecting people to their innate creativity and empowering them to use it to live their most fulfilling lives—personally and professionally. Connect at www.CreativeCatalyst.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-torrini/.

Power Pauses are visually facilitated, cyclical planning sessions that provide a more creative and collaborative process to prioritizing, focusing, setting expectations and making progress on goals based on how humans and teams naturally work best. These strategic sessions usually happen at quarterly or twice-yearly intervals and work great for teams or for leader/managers, and include:

This whole-brain approach, centered around sustainable success for individuals, teams, and organizations:

• Alleviates burnout and overwhelm
• Reduces fragmentation of resources and unnecessary work
• Leads to an overall greater impact to business success and employee wellbeing.
• Individuals and teams become more innovative, flexible and resilient, and people feel more engaged, connected and empowered.

“Strategic Power Pauses Catalyzed Us into a Much Stronger Team. The Power Pause workshops turned my skeptical accounting team into an actual team: by cataloging everything we’d survived and achieved, people dropped their defenses, saw each other’s load, and began working as one instead of a herd of exhausted individuals.”  – SVP, Chief Accounting Officer

To learn more or explore bringing this to your team, group or organization visit www.TeamPowerPause.com or reach out to Christine Arylo here.