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Being a leader in a modern school is a highly demanding profession.

A full day Professional Development seminar designed for:

• Principals

• Assistant Principals

• Heads of Departments

• Leading Teachers

• Year Level Coordinators

Being a leader in a modern school is a highly demanding profession.

The needs of students, staff, parents and key stakeholders can take their toll on even the strongest of minds – leading to increased levels of stress and fatigue, and making it harder to achieve your key leadership objectives.

But what if there was a way to take a step back, gain more control of your day to ensure you lead purposefully instead of constantly reacting to problems?

What if there were simple yet powerful strategies to help you remain calm, with feelings of clarity and focus, creativity and compassion so you could achieve your most important goals?

What if you could constantly realign yourself with your values and goals, while remaining kind to yourself and others so you can make a strong positive difference in the lives of all around you?

Mindful Leadership offers you such a path.

What is Mindful Leadership?

Mindful leadership is an exciting phenomena sweeping through the world and being embraced by large corporations such as Google, Linkedin, Target and The Harvard Business School as an evidence based way to unleash creativity, compassion and purpose driven performance.

It is based around the key principles of self awareness, clarity, focus, compassion, creativity and resilience.

Our Mindful Leadership for School Leaders program is specially designed to help you bring the benefits of Mindful Leadership to both your personal and professional life and also to the school community which you lead.

The benefits of Mindful Leadership can include:

• Greater self-awareness – to help you better manage the demands of your profession and keep you closely aligned to your personal goals and values

• Reduced levels of stress and worry as you rise above the ‘super hectic’ nature of your workplace

• Helping you to unleash creativity, productivity, and purpose driven performance for yourself, you staff and your students

• Increased levels of compassion,empathy and kindness, at both a personal and broader school based level

• Leading more effective, productive and enjoyable meetings

• Helping you to engage and re-engage your staff

• Improved handling of difficult conversations

• Increased levels of personal wellbeing, happiness and job satisfaction.

How can we help you become a more mindful leader?

Mindful Leadership for School Leaders is a full day professional development program.

Topics covered include:

• An introduction to mindfulness

• Understanding the principles of mindful leadership

• Improved self care and self management through mindfulness

• Maintaining clarity of purpose in a busy school environment

• Leading through inspiration and example

• Holding more effective meetings

• Dealing with school stakeholders

• Building compassion, empathy and resilience

• Staying true to your personal vision and principles

• Responding on your terms vs reacting on autopilot

The course is structured as a hands on, practical engagement with mindful leadership principles and techniques. No previous mindfulness experience is required. Participants will take part in a range of mindfulness exercises and techniques including breathing exercises, mindful movement, mindful eating, body scans / muscle relaxations, journal writing and reflections, mindful communication and mindfulness of emotions.

The program is delivered by Brad Felstead, the founder and director of Felstead Education. He is one of Australia’s leading experts on mindfulness in education and school based wellbeing. He is the author of The Balanced Student and The Art of Relaxation and the creator of numerous programs including Mindfulness for Teachers, Study Calm and The Power of Sleep. His broad range of educational programs covering a variety of subjects have been seen in close to 1000 school throughout Australia, Europe and America over the past 25 years.

Booking Details

Details for our next Mindful Leadership for School Leaders seminar will be announced shortly. As this is run as a small group workshop, we are limited to 20 places, which will fill quickly.

Cost: $345 full price

For further information: Contact us now.

Custom Programs for your School

To bring the benefits of mindful leadership to your school leadership team, let us bring our program to you.

We travel throughout Australia bringing customised mindfulness programs to primary and secondary schools.

Seminars can be delivered in-house at your school for your key staff members.

The program is also highly suitable as a retreat for your leadership team, delivered at a venue of your choosing.

To discuss how we can deliver a customised solution for your school, contact us today.