Join our Pause Lab...
This Sacred Pause is not a retreat. It's a Lab — a space for experimentation, alignment, emotional intelligence and revolutionary R.E.S.T'oration.
Restoratively
Embracing
Self
Today
​This immersive day-long experience invites leaders, visionaries, and changemakers to innovate from the inside out. Grounded in Tovi’s signature frameworks of courageous leadership — R.E.S.T. and BE-ingness — the Pause Lab creates the conditions for clarity, courage, and creativity to emerge from within.​
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We are no longer in business-as-usual times. Our leadership must evolve—and it begins with the willingness to pause so that we can lead others more skillfully - with both head and heart.
Why "The Pause Lab"
Matters Now
Do you remember how it feels to lead from a rested place?
This is a day to restore that remembrance — in every part of ourselves. This is a day to re-member…
In a world of urgency and unrest, many leaders feel burned out, fragmented, and misaligned. The old models of leadership are crumbling. What’s emerging requires something unprecedented: presence, heart, innovation, and sustainable strategies. We are currently suffering from disconnection and imbalance in our lives and our leadership, and it is reflected in the systems and programs that we are working in - and creating. We cannot create new, well-balanced organizations and schools from a place of old, imbalanced minds and bodies.
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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.
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This Pause Lab is a necessary disruption. A space for stillness-as-strategy, R.E.S.T-as-revolution, and emotional intelligence as a leadership imperative. Who we BE is how we lead. You can not lead from what you do not embody.
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“Because the next level of leadership isn’t hustle—it’s an experiment in BE-ing.”
The Sacred Pause Lab RESULTS (Outcomes):
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​A self-authored R.E.S.T. Protocol for sustainable leadership to carry you beyond The Pause Lab
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Tools to deepen emotional intelligence & resilience through BE-ingness
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Greater capacity for self-regulation, reflection, and renewal
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A clearer, more courageous vision for leading others in these times
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Embodied practices for greater heartfelt alignment
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A renewed sense of creativity, clarity, and community to integrate tools & strategies to create greater well-BEing in your own leadership spaces
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Remember to re-member that our work is sacred and so are we ®
Who The Pause Lab is Designed For:
The Pause Lab is designed for:
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Leaders across sectors navigating complex change (both inner & outer!)
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CEOs, educators, executives, entrepreneurs, organizers
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Visionaries who know that we cannot lead what we have not healed
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Those seeking depth, clarity, and alignment in how they lead and live
JOIN US:
Join us in The Pause Lab. Step away from the noise — and into your knowing.
Space is intentionally limited. This is sacred work.
In The Pause Lab, we will be immersed in an “experimental unravelling” (as the Nap Bishop says).
You will receive the materials you need, along with gifts (those who know Tovi’s love-language, know 💜.
You will be served artisan teas (with all the fixin’s) and a nourishing catered lunch curated to your well-BEing.
You can enjoy silence, balanced with meaningful, transformative dialogue.
You can enjoy restorative movement.
You can be in ease and flow.
You can re-member.
You can heal, transform, and be guided to a more R.E.S.T’orative and balanced style of leadership from a leader and healer who embodies this work. YOu will have tools to return to your leadership spaces.
It is a day for you to simply BE - and allow for your re-membrance to activate.
Will you place yourself in the space of most potential?
The Pause Lab Notes:
The Lab Activation is set for:
Friday, August 29, 2025 from 9 AM - 4:30 PM
Coordinates of The Lab:
San Mateo County Office of Education, 101 Twin Dolphin Dr., Redwood City, CA 94605
Your Lab Attire:
Easy like Sunday mornin’
Your Lab Fee:
$475 (purchase orders accepted*)
TEAM Rate Available:
A Team of 4 or more is $425 per person (purchase orders accepted*)​
*To request a purchase order or group rate pricing, please email weconnect@ticiess.com for assistance.
Important Info Before You Pause:
All sales are final. No refunds will be issued.
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Tickets are transferrable. If you can’t make it, you’re welcome to send someone in your place—just let us know in advance by emailing weconnect@ticiess.com.
To ensure you receive important updates leading up to the event, please register with your personal email address rather than a work or organizational account. Some organizations may block our emails, and we don’t want you to miss essential information. Additionally, please add our email to your contacts or safelist us so messages don’t end up in your spam or promotions folder.
Let's BE together and choose R.E.S.T.
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."™
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​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.™
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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.
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What people are saying about The Sacred Pause Lab 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.