This series will assist learners with understanding how compassionate leaders can develop safe, warm, and caring school environments for children and youth in schools. We will discuss compassion from the perspective of an individual leader to forming compassionate organizations that are responsive to the needs of students and staff alike. Learners will explore how to build and sustain compassionate leadership principles to foster effective professional relationships, even through difficult and stressful times.
Upon completion of this learning series, learners will receive a certificate of completion. This learning series is based on the training provided by the Centre for Compassionate Leadership.
Audience: Anyone interested in creating a compassionate classroom or school culture, including school leaders, teachers, counsellors, learning leaders, faculty, or health/wellbeing champions.
Proposed class size: 25-40 learnersDelivery: OnlineDates: Weekly sessions on Wednesdays between 4-6:00 pmCost: $599 for the full eight-week session including a certificate of completionEarly Bird: $499 if register by August 30, 2024 (registration opens in May)Deadline to Register: September 25, 2024
Want to schedule a Compassionate Leadership series for your school, district, or organization? Contact wellbeingineducation@ucalgary.ca for group pricing.
This series will be presented by Astrid Kendrick and include the following eight sessions:
Session 1&2 (October 2 & 9)The case for compassionate leadershipIn these first two sessions, you will learn about the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue and burnout in educational settings as well as the individual body systems engaged in compassion expression and roles you can make and take to embed compassionate leadership into your school.Session 3&4 (October 16 & 23) Inner work of compassionate leadershipIn the next two sessions, we will take a deeper dive into developing our skills and competencies as compassionate leaders within school settings, including understanding the nature of nurturing and fierce compassion as a basis for creating a safe and caring workplace culture.Session 5&6 (October 30 & November 6)Building Compassionate Cultures and SystemsIn these next sessions, the focus will shift to developing a culture of well-being in schools and across systems. We will discuss comprehensive school health as a framework for identifying and creating a psychologically-safe workplace and learning environment for children and youth.Session 7&8 (November 13 & 20)Interconnection and ImpactIn these final sessions, learners will address the question: how might individual and self-directed actions be catalysts for school and system wellbeing?
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