WORKING SABBATICAL™
Come back to yourself, lead from there.
A confidential space to connect with yourself and shift what's in the way — so work and life feel energizing, not just sustained, while remaining fully engaged in what you've built.
"It’s not time away from work. It’s changing the way you might be carrying it.”
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Through Working Sabbatical, professionals can come back to where they feel most alive, centered, and effective — while remaining fully engaged in their work and lives.
This is a curated, 1:1 space that meets you where you are and facilitates the change you want to embrace at your own pace. Sometimes the demands of sustained responsibility take a toll — not only on your work, but on your vitality, clarity, motivation, and the internal stance from which you lead. This work addresses that toll directly.
It is a deeply attentive, thoughtfully structured and transformative collaboration that helps bring forward the internal conditions that help you feel energized and engaged again — without disrupting daily life.
It is especially relevant for those who are sensing that something important is ready to shift and are willing to commit to themselves.
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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. It is not about adding more or “fixing” but rather in 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 we all far greater potential than we realize, and that meaningful change rarely happens in isolation, or in a single conversation — it happens in presence and relationship, over time.
About
Maria Tello
Maria Tello works with professionals navigating pressure, visibility, and complexity — often where the demands are significant, and the personal cost of meeting them isn't always seen.
Drawing on a decade of advanced training in somatic, human development, deep energetic work, therapeutic process, and teaching, and years of global experience with top 100 companies, Maria helps professionals regain the internal conditions for sustainable leadership and personal fulfillment.
Maria came to this work many years ago after trying other approaches to change. What made a lasting difference was working with professionals who had developed a rare skill and presence that created the kind of change nothing else had.
That experience and the rigorous training that followed are the foundation for Working Sabbatical: a private space where changing what’s in the way of what matters most to you unfolds with greater ease.