Description
Promote strong teaching and learning while maintaining personal leadership development and growth!
Author Christa Metzger provides strategies to enrich your leadership practice while helping you balance the personal aspects in your life that can become neglected when facing too many professional pressures. Highlights include:
- Finding balance, self-actualization, personal improvement, values, inner focus, and strong relationships
- Nourishing your spirit, finding time for solitude and meditation, and cultivating relationships
- Fulfilling your purpose as a leader and finding meaning as a person
Table of Contents
Foreword by Paul D. Houston
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Taking Care of Yourself as Well as You Do Others
2. Defining Personal Growth
3. Finding Time for Yourself While Working on Behalf of Others
4. Strategies for Personal Growth: Becoming a More Balanced Person
5. Physical Activities: Taking Care of Your Body
6. Reflective Reading: Nourishing Your Spirit and Soul
7. Music, Art, Writing, and Other Creative Work: Engaging Transformative Powers
8. Time for and With Yourself: Silence, Solitude and Meditation
9. Dreamwork: Knowing Your Whole Self
10. Spending Time With Those Who Care About You: Another Way to Balance
11. Fulfilling Your Purpose as a Leader and Finding Meaning as a Person
Resources for Further Learning
References
Index
