Do you want to….

– Have time to explore your own personal leadership journey and what it means for you and your current school context?

– Connect with like-minded school leaders, share best practice, inspiration and experiences?

– Deepen your understanding of who you are as a leader and how you can develop greater self-belief and courage?

– Improve your ability to stay true to your vision and values, even in times of great change?

Programme Overview

The “Developing Headspace” programme begins at the start of the school year with our two-day Inspiring Leadership Residential. The residential offers a unique opportunity for Headteachers to grow and reconnect with their original vision, passion and purpose and consider how their vision for the coming year will be shaped by their hopes, aspirations and the insights of others on the programme.

Set in a beautiful countryside location in Suffolk, as the late summer moves into autumn, these residentials provide Headteachers with the space to consider both personal and professional strategies for securing good outcomes for themselves, as well as those they lead and manage.

The time together is supported through key processes that enable individuals to clarify what has influenced their experience of Headship and involves journaling, discussion and walking and a series of structured discussions.

It is our hope that the programme will help you to:

– Learn how to build emotional resilience and courage to take risks

– Develop relationships with, share support & best practice with like-minded school leaders

– Make sense of what it means for you to be a school leader today

– Deepen your connection with your original vision, passion and purpose

– Clarify the experiences and values that underpin you and your role as leader

– Identify ways of being that will support you in being the best that you can be

– Reflect on your experiences & how these can be used for growth

– Re-charge your batteries and re-fuel your passion

Accommodation and Meals: As part of the programme cost, we will make arrangements for participants to stay in a nearby Bed and Breakfast and meals will provided throughout your stay.

Residential Facilitators

The residentials will be led by Viv Grant, Director of Integrity Coaching, and Giles Barrow or Tim Small, Associate Coaches.

Giles Barrow

Giles has a background as a teacher in mainstream and specialist contexts. He spent most of his leadership experience as head of support services in a south London authority. This involved establishing provision for children excluded from schools and in-school practice for students with additional and special educational needs.  Fifteen years ago he began training in transactional analysis. He is now a training and supervising transactional analyst in the field of education.

Giles is especially interested in the relational aspects of leading in learning and developing values-based approaches to creating school culture. He enjoys teaching, spends much of his time training school staff and getting alongside teachers in classrooms. Giles writes on a range of themes about learning, schooling and what it’s like to teach.  Outside of working in schools he runs a small farm in east Suffolk.

Viv Grant

Viv has been in the education profession for over twenty five years. She is a former primary head teacher and seventeen years ago was one of the youngest heads in the country to turn around a failing primary school.

She has been a lead trainer and consultant for a number of educational training bodies, including the Department for Education, the National College,The London Centre for Leadership in Learning at the Institute of Education and the NUT. She was a  contributing author  to the 2011 publication Mentoring and Coaching in schools and in 2014 published her first book, “Staying A Head: The Stress Management Secrets of Successful School Leaders.”

She has written for the Guardian and appeared on TV, BBC Radio London and BBC Radio 4 Woman’s hour, talking about her work and the role coaching plays in helping school leaders to excel.