Permission to Press Pause
If you’re moving fast, carrying too much, or constantly holding everything together, Permission to Press Pause is where you stop leading on depleted energy.
A half‑day live seminar for entrepreneurs, business leaders, and those leading at home who are operating at a pace their nervous system can’t sustain.
You’ll learn how to interrupt overwhelm before it takes over, reduce the mental and emotional load that’s eroding your clarity, and understand why your system keeps pulling you into the push even when it’s costing you your edge.
Most importantly, you’ll learn how to balance your Pause and your Push - not choosing one over the other, but knowing when to shift, how to shift, and how to lead yourself with intention instead of exhaustion.
And you’ll leave with the knowledge to operate from the higher‑vibration version of yourself - the one with more presence, more clarity, and more capacity - so you can feel like yourself again, not the depleted version you’ve been running on.
£37
October 25th, 9:30 - 12:30pm
Location: Five Villages, Chester, Station Road, Backford, Chester, CH1 6NT
Led by Nic Wagstaff - Psychology Master’s, FCIPD, 20+ years in L&D, and 90+ wellbeing and leadership retreats delivered.
longer description
Learn when to pause, when to push, and how to protect your energy — without losing yourself
If you’re a leader, entrepreneur, or the person everyone relies on, you already know what it feels like to carry pace, pressure, and responsibility. You’re capable, driven, and used to holding a lot - but the constant push has started to cost you.
Not in dramatic burnout.
In the quieter ways: foggy thinking, emotional fatigue, over‑functioning, and the sense that you’re always “on” but rarely connected to yourself.
This 3‑hour session is designed for exactly that moment.
⭐ What this session is
An emotionally intelligent, insight‑rich workshop where you’ll learn a lot in a short amount of time.
It’s focused, structured, and practical - the place where my two worlds meet:
• 20+ years in leadership psychology and L&D
• Burnout research at top UK university
• TEDx work on the Pause
• More than 90 retreats delivered globally
You get the clarity and directness of corporate learning, combined with the depth and humanity of retreat‑level insight - without it becoming a processing space or a therapeutic deep‑dive.
This is not a retreat.
It’s not a space for emotional unloading or early‑stage personal development.
It’s a session for leaders who want to understand themselves better and take responsibility for how they work.
⭐ What you’ll learn
You’ll explore the psychology behind your Pause/Push balance and uncover the energy patterns that shape how you operate. You’ll learn:
• why you push when you shouldn’t
• why you don’t pause even when you need to
• the triggers that override your limits
• the signals you’ve been missing
• the patterns that quietly drain your energy
• how your identity and leadership style influence your rhythm
You’ll also see where this sits inside my wider JIGSAW framework and why this piece is the foundation of sustainable self‑leadership. A deep dive course being delivered in 2027 both as a 3 day intensive and a 12 week hybrid online - so keep your eyes peeled
⭐ What you’ll walk away with
This session gives you practical, step‑by‑step tasks you can begin at home to map your energy and understand your Pause/Push profile. You’ll leave with:
• clarity on how you work
• a structured understanding of your energy patterns
• a 7‑day energy‑mapping task
• a push‑trigger audit
• a pause‑signal list
• one micro‑boundary to test
• a grounded sense of what needs to shift
• tools you can apply immediately
These tasks start strong on your own and become far more powerful when supported and structured
⭐ Who this is for
This session is for leaders, entrepreneurs, and high‑performers who:
• want clarity, not clichés
• want insight, not theory
• want practical tools, not motivational fluff
• want to understand themselves deeply
• want to protect their energy without losing their ambition
• want to lead themselves as well as they lead others
And not for
It’s not for people looking to vent, blame, or stay stuck.
It’s not for people at the very beginning of their personal development journey.
It’s not a therapeutic space or a retreat‑style emotional process. We have retreats that will support this part of the journey
It’s for people who are ready to look at how they work and what needs to shift.
⭐ Why this matters, and why now
Because leaders don’t burn out from weakness. They burn out from over‑functioning.
Because entrepreneurs don’t lose momentum from lack of ambition. They lose it from lack of recovery.
Because your energy is finite - and the cost of not understanding yourself is rising.
This session gives you the insight, clarity, and structure to begin changing that.
Too far for you? We have a mini online 20 min version click here or request a session near you coming soon. Keep posted on our channel and newsletter for more info (sign up here)
