Self-Leadership for Educators
A six-week leadership development course for educators seeking to lead with greater awareness, intention, and impact.
January 2027 Cohort
Start Date: Tuesday 12 January 2027
End Date: Tuesday 23 February 2027
Format: Six live, 90-minute online sessions over seven weeks
Time: 5:00 -6:30 PM Bahrain (AST) 10:00-11:30 AM EST
RegistrationFee: US$450 (school invoices available)
What You Will Gain
Greater awareness of your Leadership Self
Explore the values, beliefs, assumptions and habitual patterns that influence your professional identity, judgement and leadership practice.
Stronger emotional and thought literacy
Develop your capacity to recognise and work with emotional responses, examine assumptions, consider alternative perspectives and make more intentional decisions.
Greater relational effectiveness
Strengthen your capacity to engage in professional dialogue, navigate disagreement, build trust and contribute constructively to collaborative work.
A deeper understanding of leadership within systems
Recognise patterns, interdependencies and competing needs within school systems, and consider where and how you can exercise influence.
Practical tools, frameworks and strategies
Gain access to evidence-informed frameworks, practical tools and strategies to strengthen professional judgement, navigate complex challenges and apply self-leadership in everyday school contexts.
A repertoire of self-leadership practices
Apply practical approaches to reflection, self-regulation, decision-making and professional interaction that support continued leadership development.
A collaborative learning community
Engage with a diverse cohort of educators in professional dialogue, shared inquiry and reflection, drawing on different experiences and perspectives to deepen learning and strengthen leadership practice.
Who This Program Serves
Senior leaders refining to work with more clarity, alignment, and professional presence
Middle leaders, coaches, counsellors, or coordinators seeking to strengthen their leadership practice
Educators preparing for leadership transitions, new responsibilities, or future roles
Developing Leadership Capacity In Schools
Schools thrive when educators continue to learn and develop. Yet opportunities to explore the personal and professional dimensions of leadership are often limited within traditional professional learning.
This course introduces a developmental framework for self-leadership, drawing on research across disciplines to strengthen the awareness, understanding and capacities that educators bring to their professional roles.
Participants develop their capacity for:
Professional judgement and intentional decision-making
Emotional, physical and thought literacy
Communication, relational effectiveness and trust
Navigating complexity, disagreement and change
Recognising and drawing on personal strengths and capacities
Understanding systems, interdependencies and opportunities for influence
Each participant receives:
A Leadership Goal and Impact Plan aligned with a professional or school priority
Evidence-informed self-leadership frameworks, tools and practical strategies
Resources for continued reflection and professional application
- Self-Leadership Literacies Handbooks — practical resources for exploring and applying the Five Literacies: Emotional, Physical, Thought, Relational and Systems.
A Professional Development Certificate (9 hours)
Participants return to their professional roles with greater awareness of their Leadership Self, a repertoire of practical approaches to everyday leadership challenges, and expanded capacity to contribute to the people, teams and systems within which they work.
When educators develop a shared language for self-leadership, they also create opportunities for deeper professional dialogue, collaboration and collective learning across their schools.
Programme Structure
Session 1 — The Leadership Self and Self-Leadership Framework
Exploring professional identity, purpose, values and beliefs, and establishing a meaningful leadership development goal.
Session 2 — Emotional Literacy
Understanding emotional responses, recognising patterns and developing greater capacity for emotional regulation and intentional action.
Session 3 — Thought Literacy
Examining assumptions, habitual thinking patterns and leadership narratives to strengthen perspective-taking, judgement and decision-making.
Session 4 — Relational Literacy
Strengthening relational awareness, professional dialogue and the capacity to navigate disagreement, tension and complex interactions.
Session 5 — Physical Literacy
Recognising the relationship between physiological states, energy and leadership effectiveness, and developing practices that support regulation, presence and capacity.
Session 6 — Systems Literacy and Integration
Recognising patterns, interdependencies and opportunities for influence within school systems, and integrating self-leadership practices into ongoing professional development.
Registration
US$ 450
Complete the registration form to enrol in the January 2027 cohort.
Once submitted, you will be directed to the payment page, where you can pay online or request an invoice for school-funded participation.
Payment
Invoice for Bank Transfer
For participants whose PD funds are provided by their school.
Request for Funding. / Invoice
Online Payment
PayPal or any major card.
