Rest. Recovery. Sustainable Performance.
PERMISSION TO PAUSE
A 3-month experience for women who lead in the boardroom, the business and the home.
An opportunity to rethink your relationship with rest, work and yourself.Three gatherings over three months.
A decisively different way to live and lead.
17 October | 14 November | 5 December 2026
9:30 am – 2:30 pm | The Madonna Venue, BryanstonR2590 per session | R7500 for all three
(Ts & Cs apply)
Breakfast & Lunch included
Dress code: pyjamas, loungewear, robes, socks
You're Functioning
But for how much longer?
You've built a career; you lead people and solve problems.
You’re doing it all even when you're exhausted.
Yet you can’t shake off a nagging question: How do I sustain the life and leadership I've worked so hard to build without losing myself?
That Question Requires
More than just a day off
A beautiful day away can feel wonderful, but what happens when Monday comes?If nothing has changed about how you understand rest, work and yourself, you simply return to the same patterns that exhausted you in the first place.As an accomplished woman, you need to learn how to build recovery into the way you live and work.
Permission to Pause is about doing exactly that.
Enter
Permission to Pause
A 3-month leadership experience designed to interrupt an unhealthy cycle and help you build a new culture of rest in the reality of your daily life.
Over three gatherings, we'll move through:Recognise: What’s going on?
We'll examine how modern work and our beliefs about success have shaped our relationship with rest and recovery.Reclaim: What can I change?
Once we recognise the patterns, we begin to reclaim our agency.
Not everything is within our control, but more is within our control than we've been telling ourselves.Return: How do I live differently?
Most of us aren't quitting our jobs, moving to Umhlabuyalingana, and living off-grid.
We have careers, businesses, families, and ambitions that we don’t want to just drop.The challenge is learning to build rhythms of effort and recovery, so that we can operate inside demanding systems without being consumed.
Three Gatherings. One Journey
Why Permission to Pause?
Permission to Pause is an invitation to disrupt the pervasive
“push harder, do more, sleep later” mindset.
It’s part of a movement to reclaim recovery
as an intentional and necessary part of life and leadership.Rest today, while you’re pursuing promotions, raising families and building businesses.
Not one day when you retire.
Or worse, when it's too late for it to matter.
This is for you if
You're a leader, executive, or founder who’s successful, but wondering what that success is costing youYou want to make meaningful changes without having to disappear from your actual life
This is your invitation and your
permission to pause
RECOGNISE
R2590
Explore the ways modern work and our beliefs about success have shaped our relationship with rest and recovery.
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RECLAIM
R2590
Begin reclaiming your agency and explore the practical choices that help you practise and prioritise rest.
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RETURN
R2590
Learn how to build a sustainable rhythm of effort and recovery.
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ALL 3 GATHERINGS
R7500
Experience the complete three-month journey from RECOGNISE to RECLAIM to RETURN.
17 October · 14 November · 5 December 2026
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The outfits are playful, the work is serious
What to expect
Sleep and recovery sit at the heart of the experience because they shape how we think, feel, perform, and lead.But over the three months, you’ll also hear from speakers who bring different perspectives to the realities of high performance and modern professional life.
Together, these perspectives create space for a more honest conversation about what it means to sustain ourselves while continuing to lead.
Zamo Mbele
17 October
Understanding your mental load and behaviour within the context of a broken system.
Zamo is a clinical psychologist and organisational consultant with two decades of experience across different fields. His work sits at the intersection of psychology, leadership and organisational performance, where he expertly translates psychological science into practical approaches to leadership, culture and human performance.
Lovelyn Nwadeyi
14 November
Exploring ambition, boundaries, and leadership in demanding environments.
Lovelyn is the Founder and CEO of Chronicle Consulting. She has spent over a decade working alongside senior leaders locally and internationally. Her signature coaching framework has transformed many executive teams and creates the conditions for senior leaders to do the inner work that most professional environments don’t make room for.
Lungile Mahluza
5 December
An honest perspective from a woman who has experienced the demands of senior leadership.
Lungile is the Chief People Officer at Deloitte Africa. Prior to her current role, she spent the last 19 years in a variety of roles, including serving as Chief of Staff to a Chief Executive. Lungile's professional interests lie in connecting people, strategy and technology. She enjoys travel, art and adventure. As an executive woman, she’s increasingly focused on who she is becoming and the question of who gets to authorise your worth.
What you'll leave with
Greater awareness of the patterns that are costing you
A clearer understanding of your body's need for recovery
Practical strategies for protecting your sleep, energy and capacity
Greater agency over the choices you make around work and rest
A personal commitment to the rhythms you want to build
And most importantly:
A community of women who are also choosing to sustain their success with rest!
This is how culture changes
We talk about changing workplace culture.
But culture is also built through what we repeatedly tolerate and model:
One woman choosing not to answer emails at night
Another no longer glorifying the fact that she only sleeps four hours
Another telling her team to go home
It's the beginning of the
Rest Revolution
17 October | 14 November | 5 December 2026
9:30 am – 2:30 pm | The Madonna Venue, BryanstonSpaces are limited by design
Breakfast & Lunch included
Dress code: pyjamas, loungewear, robes, socks
By purchasing your ticket, you agree to our Terms & Conditions
Meet the host
Lalie Moraba
Lalie Moraba is a workplace sleep strategist and former attorney who knows what it’s like to be a successful but sleepless professional. Today, she helps other professional women reclaim their energy, clarity and cognitive capacity and to stop treating exhaustion as the price of success. Through Permission to Pause, she is creating space for women to discover a more sustainable way to live and lead.
Meet the Host
Gabisile Mashigo
Gabisile Mashigo is an executive, mother, wife, sister, friend, and mentor who believes that kindness begins with how we treat ourselves. As an advocate for rest and recovery for women leaders, she recognises that we cannot continue to pour from an empty cup and expect to lead and live well. Her vision for Permission to Pause is to create a space where women can reconnect with themselves and begin to refill their cups, one pause at a time.