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Self – Care.
Olive Laffoy: Principal ,Dublin.Brendan Mc Cauley, Retired Principal.
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What will be your three key priorities for the first week of
term?
Activity 1.
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How will you know if you have been successful as a
Principal at the end of the school year?
Activity 2.
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Where was ‘self-care’?
Where am I in the priority list’?
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In order to look after others you have to look after yourself first
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Things might keep you awake at night!!
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“It is the quality of fragility, the capacity for being ‘shaken up’, that paradoxically is the key to growth. Harris (2007).
Emotional Pendulum
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Prioritisation Matrix
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Building and nurturing Networks
What support
networks will you
connect with during
the next school year?
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Possible NetworksCentre for School Leadership (CSL)
PDST
National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD)
JMB/ACCS/ETBI/ PDA
Misneach Cohort
Trustees Le Cheile/Ceist/ ERST….
Unions
Carecall
Local Education Centre
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“You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you
cannot do. Together we can do great things”.
Mother Teresa
Advice.
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The Pillars
1. Family
2. Values – Spirituality
3. Relationships
4. Fun and Recreation
5. Work
Wheel of Life!
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The ‘Big Rocks’
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Leading adaptive change in the times we are in requires taking care of yourself. Taking care of yourself is not self-indulgence. The world needs you to be at the top of your game. And you cannot be at the top of your game if you have not had a good night’s sleep, eaten well, had some exercise and, yes, received the love and affection of family and friends to feel like a whole person.
If you care about education…take care of yourself…Leading and Managing Schools, 2011 (Edited by O’ Sullivan, H. and West-Burnham, J.)
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• Sustaining Leadership practice involves a duty of care towards the ‘self’. Not easy.
• Self caring is a pre-requisite for ethical practice and for being effective in the interpersonal and community focused aspects of the role. Senge 2005
• Caring for self is within the ‘gift of the leader’
Educational Research
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• Is not self indulgence.
• It needs time and space.
• Put it on staff agenda for ALL.
Self care.
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Centring Meditation
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