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Compassionate Leadership in Classrooms
This series will assist learners with understanding how compassionate leaders can develop safe, warm, and caring school environments for children and youth in schools. We will discuss compassion from the perspective of an individual leader to forming compassionate organizations that are responsive to the needs of students and staff alike. Learners will explore how to build and sustain compassionate leadership principles to foster effective professional relationships, even through difficult and stressful times.
Upon completion of this learning series, learners will receive a certificate of completion. This learning series is based on the training provided by the Centre for Compassionate Leadership.
Audience: Anyone interested in creating a compassionate classroom or school culture, including school leaders, teachers, counsellors, learning leaders, faculty, or health/wellbeing champions
Proposed class size: 25-40 learners
Delivery: Online
Dates: Weekly sessions from 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Cost: $599 for the full eight-week session including a certificate of completion
Early Bird: $499
Want to schedule a Compassionate Leadership series for your school, district, or organization? Contact werklundcentre@ucalgary.ca for group pricing.
This series will include the following eight sessions:
In these first two sessions, you will learn about the personal and professional impacts of compassion fatigue and burnout in educational settings as well as the individual body systems engaged in compassion expression and roles you can make and take to embed compassionate leadership into your school.
In the next two sessions, we will take a deeper dive into developing our skills and competencies as compassionate leaders within school settings, including understanding the nature of nurturing and fierce compassion as a basis for creating a safe and caring workplace culture.
In these next sessions, the focus will shift to developing a culture of well-being in schools and across systems. We will discuss comprehensive school health as a framework for identifying and creating a psychologically-safe workplace and learning environment for children and youth.
In these final sessions, learners will address the question: How might individual and self-directed actions be catalysts for school and system well-being?
Learning Series Presenter
Dr. Astrid Kendrick
Before taking on her current role of Director, Field Experience (Community-Based Pathway), at the Werklund School of Education, Dr. Astrid Kendrick was a K-12 classroom teacher for nineteen years specializing in Physical Education and English/Language Arts. Astrid’s current research focus is on compassion fatigue, burnout, and emotional labour in Alberta educational workers and improving online learning through integrating podcasts. She is on the Board of Directors for PHE Canada and the PHE Canada Research Council and is the co-chair of the Health Promoting Schools Collaborative for the southern Alberta region.