WORKING SABBATICAL™
REPLENISH. LEAD. CREATE.
A curated space to access clarity, energy and purpose while remaining fully engaged in daily life.
— Come back to yourself, lead from there.
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Through Working Sabbatical, executives and professionals can regain clarity, vitality, and grounded direction while remaining fully engaged in their work and lives.
It is designed for people navigating ongoing responsibility, where the cumulative effects of pressure begin to shape not only their work, but also their energy, motivation, and the internal stance from which they lead.
A private space that helps you navigate life’s challenges and create meaningful change within the realities of daily responsibility.
Deeply attentive, non-performative and thoughtfully structured, our collaboration brings forward the internal conditions to navigate challenges with greater clarity and renewed possibility.
It is especially relevant for those who have to perform at a high level while sensing that something important is ready to shift.
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This work often supports executives and professionals who are highly capable, deeply committed, and trusted in their roles — often carrying more responsibility than most people realize.
They continue to perform at a high level, even as something internally begins to feel different.
Over time, ongoing responsibility accumulates — across work, relationships, and unspoken expectations. What once felt manageable may begin to show up as diminished vitality, a quiet loss of clarity, or the sense that something important is missing.
Often they have already invested in leadership development, coaching, personal growth, or other forms of support.
And yet, the feeling remains that continuing in the same way is no longer sustainable.
This work is especially relevant for those who cannot step away from responsibility, yet recognize that something important is ready to shift.
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This work takes place as a private one-to-one space, designed to integrate into the realities of leadership and daily life — not add to them.
Sessions are confidential, structured, and deeply attentive. The approach is facilitative and non-directive, supporting the conditions from which clarity and vitality naturally arise.
Over time, the patterns that shape how responsibility is carried begin to shift optimizing how they lead, relate, and make decisions.
The work is grounded in the understanding that meaningful change rarely happens in isolation. It happens in relationship.
About
Maria Tello
Maria Tello works with executives and professionals navigating pressure, visibility, and complexity — often those operating at a level where the demands are significant, and the personal impact is not always visible.
Drawing on global leadership experience with top 100 companies alongside a decade of advanced training in somatic and depth-oriented development, Maria helps leaders regain the conditions from which sustainable leadership and creativity can emerge.
Working Sabbatical™ grew from Maria's understanding that meaningful change rarely happens alone but in the container of relationship.
She created Working Sabbatical™ as a confidential one-to-one space for leaders who need space for life’s big questions and challenges, and who seek to balance success with personal fulfillment — while staying engaged with what matters most.