Educating Hearts and Minds

SOUTH ISLAND – EDUCATING HEARTS AND MINDS IS COMING YOUR WAY! - we have listened to your feedback and made some changes to our plans. Queenstown now has a leadership focused wānanga on Wednesday 19th August.
Leading in the In-Between, now being held in Queenstown, Dunedin and Christchurch.

We have put the curriculum wānanga on pause for this trip but will be back in September or October. This has given us time to have bespoke workshops with individual teaching teams either through kaiako only days or evening conversations - I am looking forward to supporting the uniqueness of these settings.

While I'm travelling throughout the South Island there is still spaces available for professional learning within individual services. If your team would like support with leadership, intentional teaching, internal evaluation, communication, team culture, the Kōwhiti Whakapapae series, or another area of practice, I'd love to have a conversation.

Please feel free to share this post with colleagues, leaders, and services who may be interested.
I look forward to connecting with many of you soon.
Ngā mihi nui,
Lynn
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A question that came out of our blogpost Tamariki Feel What we Carry.
https://www.educatingheartsandminds.com/things-we-have-been-pondering-on/children-feel-what-we-carry

Is proving practice interrupting presence?https://www.educatingheartsandminds.com/things-we-have-been-pondering-on/interrupting-presence

Come and join us on the 4th July. Elizabeth is the keynote speaker setting the scene for the day as she discusses respectful infants and toddlers care through wisdom that has been passed down through tūpuna. If you want to find out more about Tūpuna Parenting you can visit their page. https://www.facebook.com/tupunaparenting
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Leadership is a lonely place - something I’ve been reflecting on recently.
The more conversations I have with leaders across ECE, the more I wonder whether loneliness is actually the right word at all.
Perhaps it’s more about the complexity of leadership.
The invisible holding.
The constant responsiveness.
The feeling of being surrounded… yet unseen.
This reflection began with a favourite whakataukī that has travelled with me throughout my leadership journey:
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini.
Sometimes our favourite whakataukī become mirrors, revealing new layers depending on where we are standing in our own haerenga.
A few reflections I’ve been sitting with lately, I hope it speaks to you.
Please let us know your grounding whakatauki.

Surrounded, yet unseen — Educating Hearts and Minds Because leadership itself is not lonely. To lead is to be alongside others. But leadership is complex and sometimes, within that complexity, we can find ourselves surrounded… yet unseen.

Head to our blogpost - Interrupting Presence to read more.
https://www.educatingheartsandminds.com/things-we-have-been-pondering-on/interrupting-presence