Pause Method®
Our proven Pause Method® blends neuroscience, positive psychology, and mental fitness tools to help your leaders and teams unlock their greatest potential.
We live in the age of OVERLOAD.
Moment of truth – when was the last time you checked your email on the toilet? Or doom-scrolled in bed at 3am?
Do you feel:
☐ BUSY
☐ PRESSURED
☐ DISTRACTED
☐ ALWAYS-ON
☐ EMAIL ANXIETY
☐ OVERWHELMED
☐ FATIGUED
When you're overwhelmed, your SURVIVAL BRAIN takes charge.
Your survival brain is great at keeping you alive, but it also produces an excess of negative emotions like stress, anxiety, anger, frustration and other forms of mental chatter that erode your wellbeing and performance.
Survival brain is the default mode of operating and it's where most people get stuck.
Pausing activates your WISE BRAIN.
Research demonstrates that you can actively shift the neural activity and blood flow from your survival brain region to your wise brain region through deliberate pauses.
Each time you consciously shift out of your survival brain and into your wise brain, you're building the mental muscles to thrive in any circumstance and consistently show up as the best version of yourself.
SURVIVAL BRAIN
Brain stem, limbic system, parts of left brain
Alerts you to danger
Keeps you alive
Produces negative emotions
Releases stress hormone cortisol
WISE BRAIN
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Middle prefrontal cortex, empathy circuits, parts of right brain
Wired for creativity
Big picture awareness
Produces positive emotions
Releases endorphins that counter cortisol
Your 4 Core Intelligencies
Calm
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Tame your email anxiety
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Regulate your nervous system during a meeting
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Get grounded + confident before a big presentation
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Respond calmly to a difficult client
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Keep your cool with an overly chatty coworker
Develop your SOMATIC (body) INTELLIGENCE so you can operate from a steady baseline of calm and quickly recover your equilibrium when you're thrown off balance.
Your wise brain is powered by 4 core intelligencies that are already within you. As you grow and tap into these intelligencies, they will help you respond confidently and skillfully in the face of any challenge and activate positive mindsets that make happiness, ease, and satisfaction a daily experience.
Clarity
Develop your SOMATIC (body) INTELLIGENCE so you can operate from a steady baseline of calm and quickly recover your equilibrium when you're thrown off balance.
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Tame your email anxiety
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Regulate your nervous system during a meeting
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Get grounded before a big presentation
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Respond calmly to a difficult client
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Keep your cool with crazy in-laws
Develop your SOMATIC (body) INTELLIGENCE so you can operate from a steady baseline of calm and quickly recover your equilibrium when you're thrown off balance.
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Tame your email anxiety
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Regulate your nervous system during a meeting
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Get grounded before a big presentation
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Respond calmly to a difficult client
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Keep your cool with crazy in-laws
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Savor the joy of your first sip of coffee
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Prevent an angry outburst during a meeting
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Overcome your imposter syndrome
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Activate positive emotions to boost your mood
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Get unstuck from feelings of frustration
Develop your EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE so you can regulate strong emotions, build empathy, and open yourself up to greater joy and fulfillment.
Creativity
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Choose your mindset as you begin each day
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Tap into fresh ideas during a brainstorm sesh
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Stop rumination after getting critical feedback
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Release your negative self-talk
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Discover a big opportunity in a big challenge
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Access your creative flow
Build your REFLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE to release self-limiting thoughts and beliefs, unlock your growth mindset, and fuel your most creative ideas.
Connection
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Boost your confidence before a team training
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Be kinder to yourself when you make mistakes
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Connect authentically with your boss
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Find common ground with a difficult coworker
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Foster belonging and trust in your team
Build your RELATIONAL INTELLIGENCE to quiet your inner critic, develop your inner ally, turn conflict into connection, and fuel satisfying teamwork.
While our method and curriculum are uniquely ours, these teachings are here by the generosity and grace of the many teachers, mentors, and researchers who came before us. We are deeply grateful and humbled to draw from this collective wisdom and to be a part of the modern mindfulness movement.