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Prepare for, Experience, and Return From a Life-Changing Sabbatical

A practical, proven, self-guided learning experience designed to help you slow down, reset, and return with clarity and purpose.

Instant access • 30+ coaching-style lessons • Reflection guides • Tools used with real coaching clients

You know you need a change — but you’re not sure where to start.

Most leaders don’t get the support or clarity they need before stepping into sabbatical.

They feel tired, foggy, overwhelmed, or disconnected.
And when sabbatical finally comes, they don’t know how to prepare for it…
or how to experience it without feeling guilty, pressured, or totally lost.

​This learning experience removes the mystery and gives you a clear path.

The problem isn’t that you need more time away

the problem is you need a process.

Most leaders:

  • Don’t know what a sabbatical actually is
  • Don’t know how to prepare their team, family, and inner world
  • Don’t know what to expect emotionally
  • Don’t know how to reenter without losing everything they gained
  • Don’t have a coach walking with them
  • Don’t have a clear framework

Sabbatical doesn’t automatically lead to rest or clarity.
​You need a process that guides you through every phase.

Introducing

The Sabbatical Journey


A Self-Guided Learning Experience for Leaders, Pastors, and High-Impact Humans

This is not a course.
​It’s a coaching-style journey designed to replicate the experience our one-to-one clients receive  in a self paced format.

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Demystify

understand exactly what sabbatical is
and isn’t

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Prepare

Get your rhythms, structure, team, family
and heart ready for your sabbatical

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Experience

navigate the emotional arc and sacred rest

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Reorient

Return with clarity and sustainable rhythms that will sustain your leadership for the long-haul

Plus a bonus module with 6 additional questions answering
common questions leaders ask.

What's inside


Inside the Learning Experience You’ll Get:

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Over 30 short, coaching-style video lessons

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4-phase proven framework

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Module companion guides

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Reflection questions and self-coaching prompts

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Tools we use in one-to-one coaching

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Module companion guides

This experience was built by the Sabbatical Coaching Group team 

after years of helping leaders take meaningful, transformative sabbaticals.
They feel tired, foggy, overwhelmed, or disconnected.

It combines:

  • Our proven sabbatical frameworks
  • The structure used with one-to-one coaching clients
  • Research-backed strategies
  • Real stories from leaders who came back healthier and more grounded
  • Over 1.1 million leaders is our long-term impact goal — this is one of the most accessible ways to begin that journey.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

A Real Game-Changer

Sabbatical coaching was a game-changer! I probably would've crashed and burned in a lot of ways, but sabbatical coaching led me through a process to prepare for, experience, and re-enter back in.

- Greg, Indiana

A Life-Changing Season

This process helped me transform what could have been just time off into a truly life-changing season. What sets Alan apart is his rare combination of practical experience, spiritual depth,
and genuine care.

- Chris, Vermont

Healthier & More Productive

Our entire team benefits from a sabbatical framework developed through Alan's coaching and guidance, and our team is healthier and more productive than we were before.

- Jesse, Colorado

Made Me Whole Again

This experience is nourishing my soul. I’m so grateful, coaching is already changing my life for the better. One piece of coaching advice changed everything, it helped me start dreaming again. It feels like I’m becoming whole again.

- Marc, Switzerland

Instant access • 30+ coaching-style lessons • Reflection guides • Tools used with our 1:1 coaching clients