Health and Wellbeing
Looking After Your Own Wellbeing (as Well as Everyone Else’s)
Put your own wellbeing back on the list when the buck stops with you, starting with time in the diary that nobody else can take.
- 47 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Recognise when your coping habits have stopped helping you
- Protect time for yourself in the diary and keep to it
- Use the 'what's on your plate' exercise to see what's weighing on you
- Use walking and time outdoors to settle yourself after a hard week
- Set up structured peer support that stays safe for both people
About this course
Heads and senior leaders spend their days holding everyone else's worries, and there's rarely anywhere to put their own. It's hard to say you're struggling when the whole school is looking to you.
The habits that help are small, and they come from a drama therapist who gives monthly one-to-one supervision to dozens of headteachers. Book time with yourself in the diary and guard it like any meeting, even if it's five minutes with the door shut and a cup of tea. Draw 'what's on your plate' to see what's weighing heaviest. Get outside: some of her heads now turn up for supervision in walking boots and say 'I need the hill today'.
And if you'd rather not do it alone, set up peer support with a colleague, using a simple structure that means both of you are properly listened to and nobody overshares.
- For governors, middle leaders and 2 other roles. All phases.
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