Wellbeing and Meaning focuses on how we can support the positive wellbeing of students and teachers within schools and kura. Taking a strengths-based approach to teaching and learning is central to the success of ākonga as confident and well supported lifelong learners.

The Leaders’ Buffet is a self-directed learning programme to support your work and empower leaders to learn more effectively.

B1 : Leading and living with purpose

Dr Peter Cammock

Dr Peter Cammock explores the possibilities of purpose at an organisational level and discuss ways in which we can find a greater sense of alignment, purpose and meaning in our personal lives and work.

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B2 : The Power of Narrative Pedagogy

Steve Saville and Becca Thomas

In this Leaders’ Connect hui recording from 27 October 2022, Steve Saville and Becca Thomas share their whakaaro on the power of narrative pedagogy.

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B3 : Leading Well: self-care in a COVID environment

Dr Denise Quinlan

In this Leaders’ Connect hui recording from 23 September 2021, Dr Denise Quinlan from NZ Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience shares her whakaaro on leading well: self-care in a COVID environment.

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B4 : Leading to the North East

Claire Amos

In this Leaders’ Connect hui recording from 4th March 2021, Claire Amos (Principal, Albany Senior High School) shares her whakaaro on Leading to the North-East: Warm and Demanding Leadership.

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B5 : A Trauma-Informed Approach

Jase Williams

In this Leaders’ Connect hui recording from 10 November 2022, Jase Williams shares his whakaaro on healing communities using a trauma-informed approach in schools.

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B6 : Leading with a trauma informed lens

Dr Emma Woodward

In this Leaders’ Connect hui recording from 7 April 2022, Dr Emma Woodward (The Child Psychology Service, NZIWR) shares her whakaaro on leading with a trauma-informed lens.

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B7 : From trauma-informed to learning transformed

Lynda Knight de Blois

In this Leaders’ Connect hui recording from 21 October 2021, Lynda Knight-de Blois shares her whakaaro on moving “from trauma-informed to learning transformed”.

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B8 : Be Slacker Better: learnings from the trenches

David Armstrong and Steve Zonnevylle

School principals and authors David Armstrong and Steve Zonnevylle share their whakaaro on “being slacker better” – learnings from the trenches of the 40 Hour Principals.

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B9 : Finishing Well

Dr Lucy Hone and Dr Denise Quinlan

Dr Lucy Hone and Dr Denise Quinlan from NZ Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience (NZIWR) share their whakaaro on Finishing Well: Strengths-based approaches for noticing the growth and the good.

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