Season 2 Episode 20 Practical strategies for self-care

16/12/2025 35 min Temporada 2
Season 2 Episode 20 Practical strategies for self-care

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Episode Synopsis

As the summer break approaches, this episode explores essential self-care strategies for principals. The conversation covers creating boundaries during holidays, maintaining wellbeing throughout the year, and practical approaches including setting firm finish dates, prioritising activities outside education, and the importance of being fully present. Our guests discuss reframing rest as essential leadership practice rather than optional luxury.
Hosted by Eleisha McNeill
Our guests are:

Roger Phillipson, psychologist at the Ministry of Education
Heidi Haywood, principal of Dunedin North Intermediate
Michael Fletcher, principal of Chaucer School.

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