Workbook
The Sabbatical Workbook
You Stopped. Now What.
A sabbatical without a structure is unemployment with better framing.
For the professional who finally got the time away from work and discovered that time itself is not the answer.
The Name It First Experience
You stopped. The question is whether you use the time to recover, to recalibrate, or to drift. Most sabbaticals become expensive pauses unless there is a deliberate structure underneath them. This workbook gives professionals on sabbatical a framework for naming what they need from the time, what they are leaving behind, and what a meaningful return looks like. The output is not a productivity plan. It is a signed Sabbatical Charter.
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Sample questions
- What do you want to understand about yourself by the end of this sabbatical — and what question are you most hoping the time will answer?
- What has your career been built on — and is that still who you are, or has something shifted that this sabbatical is meant to surface?
- What do you want to return to work knowing — about yourself, about what matters, about what you're willing to do and not do?
Research basis
Burnout and engagement research (Maslach, Leiter) identifies recovery from exhaustion as the first phase of re-engagement, but also shows that recovery without meaning-making does not restore engagement. Professional Identity Formation research (Cruess, Cruess, Steinert) identifies periods of voluntary pause as significant identity renegotiation moments. Positive Psychology research (Seligman, Csikszentmihalyi) on flow and meaning provides the framework for understanding what makes sabbatical time feel restorative rather than empty. ACT (Hayes) offers the values-clarification methodology that underlies the Agreement.
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