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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 Networks
Centre 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