Recovery strategies for principals - The Educator

“The health and wellbeing of school leaders is something peak performance researcher Dr Adam Fraser takes very seriously.

After all, he has dedicated years of his life to researching how to reverse the worryingly high levels of stress, anxiety and burnout felt by thousands of principals across Australia.

When Berry Public School principal Bob Willetts engaged Dr Fraser in 2018 to use his research, The Flourish Movement– an initiative that has come to have a profoundly positive impact on principal health and wellbeing – was born.

The first Flourish group was conducted on the NSW South Coast where Willetts and a cohort of principals helped fine tune the program to suit the needs of educators everywhere.

According to research by Deakin University, …”