qui·e·tude
A Meditation Retreat Series for Professional Spirituality, Leadership BE-ingness & H.E.A.L’ing to Oneness
February 28 · March 28 · April 25 · May 30
QUIETUDE is not an event series;
It is Leadership Re-Education.
QUIETUDE Is Not the Absence of Sound;
It Is a Way of Leading.
QUIETUDE is a state of calm, still presence.
Here, it becomes an attitude.
A way of BE-ing.
A leadership posture that restores the self and stabilizes the collective.
QUIETUDE is a monthly, daylong meditation immersion for spiritually-conscious leaders who know — deep in their bones — that their leadership is fueled by a power greater than themselves… and who are ready to deepen that relationship from within.
This is where meditation becomes leadership development.
Where silence sharpens discernment.
Where stillness strengthens sovereignty.
Where R.E.S.T. is not passive — it is strategic to cultivate your creativity, your brilliance, your intuition, and your fortitude.
Daylong Immersions Cultivating Silence & Stillness
February 28 · March 28 · April 25 · May 30
9 AM - 4 PM
Skyline Center in Oakland Hills of Oakland, CA
In the serenity of nature, easefully above the urban hustle
This Day Activates Your Embodiment, So Stillness and Silence stop feeling foreign - and you stop the Busyness that is exhausting your BE-ingness at every level. Instead, Stillness and Silence become inviting, familiar, comforting.
Why This Matters Now
Leadership is being asked to evolve.
The pace, pressure, and complexity of our current moment demand more than technical skill or intellectual strategy—they require presence, inner steadiness, and spiritual maturity. Many leaders sense this intuitively, yet have not been taught how to develop these capacities in a grounded, professional, and embodied way.
QUIETUDE meets this moment by restoring silence and stillness as essential leadership practices — not as withdrawal, but as preparation. This work supports leaders in cultivating the inner-conditions necessary for clarity, ethical action, relational trust, and sustainable impact.
In a world that rewards urgency, quietude teaches leaders how to choose alignment.
In systems shaped by pressure, stillness becomes a form of wisdom.
In times of uncertainty, presence becomes power.
This is leadership development for the era we are in —
and the future we are shaping.
Tovi’s Inimitable Approach of Integrated Leadership Development
QUIETUDE is grounded in — and gently introduces — three core frameworks that participants continue to draw from long after the day concludes:
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Leadership BE-ingness®
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Cultivating leadership from presence, embodiment, and inner-authority rather than performance, position, or past conditioning. Consciousness shifts deeply into greater belonging - first to oneself and then to others
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R.E.S.T. — Restoratively Embracing Self Today™
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A sustainable approach to leadership consciousness that prioritizes nervous-system health, reflection, and renewal as strategic assets. We balance intellect with somatics to deepen understanding of what is happening physiologically and psychologically as part of our healing and transformation
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H.E.A.L’ing to Oneness — Have Everything Align to Love™
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A grounded framework that supports coherence between values, actions, relationships, and leadership impact from the inner to the outer. This tupe of H.E.A.L’ing supports us in releasing familial, societal and systemic conditioning that prevents our dominion, sovereignty, and alignment to LOVE
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These frameworks are not imposed — they are experienced.
Participants are empowered to integrate what resonates, honor their own truths, and continue developing leadership from within.
Leadership Experience and Outcomes
Meditation as Leadership Development
QUIETUDE is designed as a lived leadership practice — where silence and stillness become training grounds for clarity, resilience, and inner authority.
Through guided meditation, extended quiet, and intentional reflection, leaders will experience and strengthen:
Presence, Self-Awareness & Inner Authority
Quietude is cultivated as an inner posture — supporting leaders to act from alignment, integrity, and grounded clarity rather than urgency or reactivity.
Emotional Regulation & Relational Intelligence
Participants build nervous-system resilience, deepen empathy, and strengthen their capacity to lead with steadiness, care, and discernment in complex environments.
Reflective Practice & Personal Mastery
Intentional reflection creates space to release misalignment, clarify intention, and realign with one’s higher self and leadership purpose.
Clarity, Discernment & Wise Decision-Making
Stillness is experienced as a strategic resource — supporting clearer vision, cleaner decisions, and more sustainable leadership impact.
Sustainable Energy & Leadership Longevity
Through R.E.S.T. — Restoratively Embracing Self Today — leaders reduce burnout while strengthening focus, creativity, and long-term effectiveness.
Quietude becomes an attitude — a way of BE-ing that stabilizes the leader and positively influences teams, organizations, and the communities they serve.
Professional Alignment
This series is for all sectors and industries.
For educational leaders, this experience aligns with California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (CPSELs), including Ethical Leadership, Reflection & Growth, Relationships & Community Engagement, Vision & Direction, and Sustainable Leadership Practices.
How We Learn & Develop in Quietude
This immersion honors the four ways leaders truly grow:
1. Direction — Teaching
Clear frameworks connecting meditation, Leadership BE-ingness®, and Professional Spirituality®.
2. Imitation — Seeing & Doing
You witness, practice, and embody what quiet leadership looks and feels like. Then you create your own re-frame for your own empowerment.
3. Research to MEsearch — Self-Discovery
You experiment with strategies until you discover what truly works for you.
4. Reflection — The Core of Quietude
Time and space to reflect, release, realign, and ask: How aligned am I with my intention for my leadership and my higher self?
Reflection is the most provocative teacher.
Silence invites honesty.
Stillness cultivates sovereignty.
Monthly Arc of Deepening
Topics and focus will evolve, just as our experience & leadership in this critical time of humanity is evolving.
Just know this...
Each month builds upon the last, yet…
Each day stands complete on its own.
Together, they create deeper transformation & embodiment.
This Is For You If…
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You are a leader who senses your leadership must evolve
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You value spirituality without dogma
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You are ready to lead from alignment, not urgency
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You desire community, silence, nature, and depth
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You want tools that come from within, not outside yourself
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You are ready to not work as hard, learning strategies and tools to lead from the spiritual realm of your leadership to impact the physical realm of your leadership
What's Included:
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Materials & swag
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Healthy Nourishment (Tea Bar, Lunch & Snacks)
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Quietude Reflection Guide (PDF)
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Post-Retreat Integration Prompts
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Priority Registration for Future Days of Quietude
What leaders are saying about retreats with Tovi...
I came to this retreat thinking I know how to slow down, and am just strengthening my skills...and then I realize that NOW I am slowing down for real.
This retreat has really shifted my perspective and I am truly truly grateful to have been a part of it. I struggled and work through so much. I got so much out of this and am still reflecting.
Tovi brought us to kindness, authenticity, and knowledge. She challenged my thoughts while providing me room to grow. I look forward to the next opportunity to learn from this amazing leader!
Tovi ignites a soul-searching process. A heartfelt 'thank you' for this enriching, transformative workshop.
This helped me re-center myself for my health and my leadership. It’s given me pause to truly think about what I want to model for staff and my community.
Tovi awakened our collective vision and nurtured a connection among us. Her heart-centered approach is a healing balm, revealing our true potential and rekindling our sense of purpose.
Courageously choose Silence & Stillness with Tovi.
Meditation is Leadership Development.
A rested place is where we'll be able to truly innovate, truly improve our systems and create greater belonging, well-BEing, and impact achievement to those that we serve. "It will not be easy, but it does not have to be hard."™
You will be skillfully guided by a leader-of-leaders and healer-to-healers (a Goddess-at-Work!) to re-member that our work is sacred, and so are we.™
Tovi C. Scruggs is a leader of leaders who’s been described as “inimitable” due to her integral approach of emotional intelligence via meditation, emotional intelligence, belonging, healing-centered, and courageous leadership development via her signature frameworks. She supports leaders in deep transformation and healing, taking them from Leadership DO-ing to Leadership BE-ing. Tovi has been recognized by Mindful Magazine as one of the Powerful Women Leaders of 2021 who are igniting the world with courage and wisdom. Tovi cultivates conscious, connected, and courageous leaders world-wide.
