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What is currently lacking in today's educational leadership preparation programs is a clear focus on internal and interpersonal growth, reflection and healing. These elements of personal development are not separate from professional developmentand must be addressed in order to see the ways in which organizationalhealthis an extensionoftheleader'spersonalandprofessionalhealth.
Healing Centered Leadership in Schools establishestheneedfor educational leaders to understand the intersection of healing centered practices and organizational effectiveness. Building on the research of Shawn Ginwright around healing centered engagement, healing-centered leadership is a transformative approach that integrates healing practices into leadership to address trauma and promote well-being. This concept emphasizesrestoringrelationshipsandfosteringenvironmentsofdignityandbelonging.This book expands this framework to include ways to leverage healing of self, organization and ultimately the learning community.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: What We Are Made Of
Chapter Two: Patterns of Pain
Chapter Three: The Rooted Framework – An Introduction to Healing-Centered Leadership in Practice
Chapter Four: Personal Healing – Root Systems, Reflection, and Professional Health
Chapter Five: Impersonal Healing – Truth Telling, Reconciliation, and Fictive Kinship
Chapter Six: Organizational Healing – Holistic Change, Alignment, and the Miracle of Now
Closing: Letting the Work Decant – On Merciful Distance, Brokenness, and Beginning Again
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| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 184 |
| ISBN | 9798216451488 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 1 B/W figure, 10 textboxes |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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