The Flourishing Principal: Strategies for Self-Renewal [Paperback]

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. Its easy to forget that the principals own health and harmony are among the things that also need attention.

In this innovative workbook, youll be expertly guided through The Flourishing Principals eight strengths-based, solution-focused strategies for self-renewal are designed to support principals like you. Youll connect with core values, find and sustain healthy balance, acknowledge current reality, and set clear intentions. Youll rediscover innate creativity, refresh healthy communication skills, focus on self-care, and call upon guiding wisdom. Youll 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 facilitators guide featuring a step-by-step curriculum prepares you to lead a writing group with peers.

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 Its 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 Colorados Boulder Valley School District. She has taught children and adults for over 30 years.

Kathleen Adams and Rosemary Lohndorf have captured one of the essential ingredients of successful school administration: taking time for reflection. Reflection, of course, is the key to being a thoughtful leader and a creative problem-solver. By offering strategies for regularll