Supporting you, in a new way of being.

About us

The Stress, Love & Leadership Institute is focused on helping participants to uncover, explore, and develop their understandings of stress, love, and leadership first as individual concepts, and then to take these concepts and look at how their intersecting dynamic creates either collaboration and support or conflict and discourse. Our retreats serve as an environment for converging points of individual and shared experiences in which participants can see and feel how these dynamics work in practice. The idea is to create a community of shared learning in which the group can evolve their understanding throughout the process.

Vision

Our approach is to create an experience in which our in-person retreat(s) serve as an entry point into the work the institute does. Upon completion of their face-to-face work participants will have the option to continue engaging with us using a meaningful delivery model by leveraging digital platforms for periodic check-ins, webinars, and follow-up exercises. The idea is to maintain the connection and sustain the retreat experience for as long as the participant feels it is helpful, as well as to connect participants with others who have taken our courses to build a network of support and peer-driven resources.

Story

The Institute was founded by three individuals from different backgrounds in the for-profit, non-profit, and public realms. The point of divergence for the founders though stemmed from a primary point of concern. The current idea of externally facilitated professional development and training is flawed. In the traditional model, external facilitation consists of a day (or two) of intense instruction and group activity which may (or may not) serve to stimulate awareness and acquisition of new skills or knowledge. The imprinting of this new way of being though is doomed to fail because in the current model there is little or no follow-up with the facilitator, meaning participants are left on their own to decide how, when, and even if they will continue to practice what they have learned.

Mission & Values

Our Mission

We seek to create awareness, provide space to explore current and new understanding, and develop an awakening of self, a removal of “armor,” and embodying a new way of being

Our Values

We value authenticity and the courage it takes to offer vulnerability in unearthing truth, to reflect on lived experiences, and to foster empathy and love for self, others, and the world.

We value all unique voices and individual perspectives and recognize that this work in self-actualization is a messy, meandering, lifelong journey.

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