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What is Our Flourishing Leadership Development Program?

Our Flourishing Leadership Development Program is a certification program designed to build the leadership capacity of people working in education, business, and community organizations. The program follows an inquiry process that centralizes decision making through critical thinking as:

  • a vehicle to help leaders grow their capacity to lead in meaningful personalized ways
  • a tool to build a leader’s self-coaching capacity to flourish in a sustained way

Flourishing Leadership for Youth

Our Flourishing Leadership Program has also been modified to engage students aged 13 and older in their personal leadership development. Students who complete the program receive a certificate.

Program Objective

Participants will actively engage in the creation of a High IMPACT+ goal and strategic action plan to address a pressing leadership issue.

The flourishing inquiry process encourages participants to reflect on the best approach to grow their leadership capacity. This work will culminate in a personal growth plan, designed to sustain a participant’s growth and leadership development beyond completion of this program. In addition, personalized support through one-on-one coaching is available for current and emerging leaders, upon request.

A certificate of successful completion is awarded to each participant who provides evidence of having designed the following:

  • an effective personal growth plan
  • a strategic action plan, driven by a High IMPACT + goal

Program Content

Both programs cover a wide range of topics identified as being of special interest to meet the specific needs of leaders. The sequencing of these topics is also flexible to meet their emerging needs.

Below is a sampling of possible topics and related thinking mindsets needed for flourishing leadership.

Topics

Flourishing Thinking Mindsets

Practicing Positivity in Leadership

  • Nurturing Optimism and Curiosity Below is a sampling of possible topics and related thinking mindsets needed for flourishing leadership.

Hopeful/Inquisitive Thinking

Deepening your self-awareness as a leader

  • understanding the self-awareness process
  • discovering core values that define you as a leader
  • optimizing your character strengths
  • becoming aware of your identity

Perceptive/Introspective Thinking

Deepening relationships

  • building coaching competencies
  • building trust and a sense of belonging
  • being responsive (showing kindness, compassion, gratitude, and forgiveness)
  • understanding and leveraging emotions
  • nurturing a growth-oriented accountability
  • providing growth-oriented feedback

Relational/Benevolent/Appreciative/Cathartic Thinking

Being strategic

  • setting a High IMPACT+ leadership goal
  • creating a strategic action plan
  • choosing healthy levels of commitment

Prospective Thinking

Finding your leadership voice

  • engaging in productive courageous conversations
  • becoming culturally competent

Emotional/Relational Thinking

How do we Support Flourishing in Education?

With over 30 years of experience working in Education we have seen first-hand the impact of poor teaching practices on the well-being of students. As such FlourishCo is deeply invested in empowering learners of all ages to experience learning in ways that protect and nurture their well-being.

We place the development of a Flourishing Mindset at the core of our work to help learners become thoughtful, active participants in their learning and beyond. With this mandate, we offer keynote presentations, seminars, workshops, and webinars on a variety of topics related to balancing well-being and academic achievement.

Our work helps organizations and individuals, alike, to understand and implement a critical thinking approach to inquiry that nurtures:

  • the agency of learners
  • the emotional, cognitive, psychological and spiritual well-being of learners
  • equity, diversity and inclusion in learning communities

To support this development, we create learning materials in a variety of forms including:

  • on-line, printable lesson plans (presentation slides, templates, and assessment/evaluation tools) with curricular connections where desirable
  • user guides for teachers and professional learning facilitators