The Flourishing Principal: Strategies for Self-Renewal
Jun 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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146
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About this ebook
The work of a school principal is a blend of nonstop demands, heart-opening connections, near-constant stress, passionate commitment, and a merry jumble of projects that flop or flourish. It’s easy to forget that the principals own health and harmony are among the things that also need attention.
In this innovative workbook, you’ll be expertly guided through The Flourishing Principals eight strengths-based, solution-focused strategies for self-renewal are designed to support principals like you. You’ll connect with core values, find and sustain healthy balance, acknowledge current reality, and set clear intentions. You’ll rediscover innate creativity, refresh healthy communication skills, focus on self-care, and call upon guiding wisdom. You’ll flourish!
More than 70 well-crafted writing prompts guide you to self-renewal. Each is illustrated with the voice of a flourishing principal who has embodied these strategies. A facilitator’s guide featuring a step-by-step curriculum prepares you to lead a writing group with peers.
In this innovative workbook, you’ll be expertly guided through The Flourishing Principals eight strengths-based, solution-focused strategies for self-renewal are designed to support principals like you. You’ll connect with core values, find and sustain healthy balance, acknowledge current reality, and set clear intentions. You’ll rediscover innate creativity, refresh healthy communication skills, focus on self-care, and call upon guiding wisdom. You’ll flourish!
More than 70 well-crafted writing prompts guide you to self-renewal. Each is illustrated with the voice of a flourishing principal who has embodied these strategies. A facilitator’s guide featuring a step-by-step curriculum prepares you to lead a writing group with peers.
About the author
Kathleen Adams MA, LPC is one of the leading voices in the field of expressive and therapeutic writing. A psychotherapist and registered poetry/journal therapist, she founded the Center for Journal Therapy in 1988. She is the author/editor of nine books on expressive writing and the series editor for the It’s Easy to W.R.I.T.E. Expressive Writing series for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Rosemary Lohndorf has been an avid journal writer for many years. She was a principal and award-winning elementary school teacher who recently retired from Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District. She has taught children and adults for over 30 years.
Rosemary Lohndorf has been an avid journal writer for many years. She was a principal and award-winning elementary school teacher who recently retired from Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District. She has taught children and adults for over 30 years.
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