Permission to Rest: Strategies for Sustainable Leaders

The highest-performing leaders aren't the ones who rest least. They're the ones who know how to rest best.

In this interactive workshop, explore what rest means for you, why it always seems to slip down the priority list, and how to make it stick through simple, intentional practices. Drawing on Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith's framework of seven rest types, discover which kinds of rest you're missing most and design a personal rest practice that fits into your life at home and at work.

Leave with a clearer understanding of what you and your colleagues need to show up at your best and a concrete plan to intentionally weave rest into your working rhythms.

Objectives:

• Explore your relationship with rest, developing a more holistic understanding of rest in the process

• Identify and take opportunities to more intentionally nurture your inner rested leader 

Structure: flow between mini lesson, solo reflection, whole group discussion, breakout discussion, + action planning

ATD Capability Model – Building Personal Capability: Communication; Emotional Intelligence and Decision-Making; Collaboration and Leadership; Cultural Awareness and Inclusion; Project Management; Compliance and Ethical Behavior; Lifelong Learning 

To learn more about this model see: https://capability.td.org/

Speaker: Tes Cohen

Tes’ life purpose is to foster belonging and continuous learning by creating spaces that center community and curiosity.  She delights in doing exactly that by co-designing and facilitating transformative gatherings with purpose-driven organizations as founder and chief gathering officer of Gather Better.

Her career began serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Costa Rica and includes several years in the nonprofit world as well as five years in corporate philanthropy at Gap Inc. Tes is also the co-founder of Radical Reset, creating a movement of rested leaders and a world in which rest is democratized, normalized, and celebrated. Before moving to Denver in 2020, Tes biked 3,125 miles across the country from California to Florida.

Tes has her Masters in Public Administration from NYU and BA in Psychology and Spanish from Connecticut College.  She currently serves on the board of Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC), supporting a coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the lives of immigrants and refugees.

In her spare time, Tes enjoys biking, rock climbing, teaching yoga, and travel (30 states and 30 countries visited and counting!).