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- What is Your Welllness Strategy?
‘Do you have a wellness strategy to support your desired state of wellbeing or are you hoping that ad hoc, sporadic activities and events will be enough, hence, leaving it to chance?
Your wellbeing strategy needs to be planned, and whilst it may require hard work, it shouldn’t be hard. Yes, you know you should exercise more and perhaps it might feel hard, yes, it may feel a little tricky to initially set boundaries, and yes, it may cause a bit of stress, to begin with as you stop checking emails in the evening. However, as you build these habits, you will realise the hard work becomes easier and once established all these things combine to make up your wellness strategy and support your overall wellbeing.
Your daily actions, habits and rituals are always impacting your wellbeing. Therefore, taking time to consider the wellbeing state you're trying to create and how to do this is essential.
More About Amy
Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish.
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23 min - Exploring Wellbeing Science & Why Resilience the is Key to Growth
In this episode Amy and David discuss wellbeing science and practical strategies needed for all educators (and everyone else too..)
The topic of resilience is explored in depth, and how we can utilise both internal and external resilience factors as we grow and change personally and professionally.
Meet David Bott
David Bott is a sought-after speaker, author and education consultant who works with government
organisations and some of the world’s leading schools to help guide wellbeing vision and strategy. Asan expert in applied wellbeing science, David has supported thousands of educators from hundredsof schools around the world in designing and implementing system-level approaches to wellbeingand cultural change.Find out more about David here.
More About Amy
Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish.
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48 min - The Missing Step to Creating Change
In the human behaviour space and in coaching we often refer to a process called integration.
This is where we take what we've learnt and integrate it into our being. We move what we learn from knowledge to practice so it becomes part of who we are.
This is a crucial part of the change process, and one that is valued, given time for and reflected on before moving on to something else.
In schools, however, this valuable step is often overlooked.
In the episode, Amy shares how and why to use integration as a step in the change process.
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22 min - What it means to take responsibility, live with purpose, and manage your mind with Emily Chadbourne
In this episode, Emily and I chat about so many things that make up who we are. From unlearning to relearning, questioning everything and how to manage your mind. This episode was a real treat for me as Em has been in my world for a really long time and was one of my very first mindset coaches. She is incredible and this episode is filled with wisdom, insights, and gems everyone needs to hear.
(Also, this episode comes with a language and content warning)
Meet Emily Chadbourne
Emily Chadbourne used to be a bit of an idiot (in her own words).
At 34 years old, she realised that no one was going to rescue her from her crappy waitressing job or her crappy life. She had to do it.Now, she shows other women how to consciously cultivate their businesses, relationships and inner strength, an evolution she calls becoming ‘unashamedly human’.Emily’s no BS, sassy approach and honest accounts of the REAL world of love, life and business are often hilarious and always valuable.
Originally from London, Emily now lives in Melbourne where she works internationally as a mindset coach.Find out more about Emily here.
More About Amy
Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish.
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51 min - Let's reconsider the time we have.
In this episode Amy explains that it may not be more time we need, but instead the opportunity to reconsider how we use the time we have.
Amy also unpacks 3 key insights she has discovered from her 'Beneath the Surface' days in schools.
She provides 3 real examples to consider when thinking about how schools can use the time they have in a different way.
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27 min - Relational Leadership and Character Strengths with Mike Erwin
In this episode, Mike and I chat about...
Leadership is relational, not transactional.
The need for the use of character strengths in schools.
Positivity Project.
Meet Mike Erwin
Mike is an enthusiastic and optimistic leader who was born and raised in Syracuse, NY. He has dedicated his life to serving the nation and empowering people to build positive relationships and become more resilient.
Mike is the founder & CEO of The Character & Leadership Center and has worked with companies including Amazon, PWC, Stryker, Michigan and Virginia Tech basketball programs, Special Forces units and professional sports teams including the Boston Celtics and the NJ Devils. He is co-author of LEAD YOURSELF FIRST (2017), which focuses on how solitude strengthens people’s character and their ability to lead with clarity, balance and conviction. He is also co-author of LEADERSHIP IS A RELATIONSHIP (2021) which details why leaders who prioritise relationships are more effective.
In 2015, Mike co-founded the Positivity Project, an organisation with the mission to empower America’s youth to build positive relationships and become their best selves. With 826 partner schools, the organisation reaches over 500,000 children daily. He served as CEO for four years and remains involved as a strategic advisor. Mike also serves as the founding board chair for Father Vincent Capodanno High School, a private, independent Catholic school outside Fort Bragg, NC. Community service, character and leadership development are integral to the school’s model, accounting for 30% of students’ GPA.
Mike continues to proudly serve the nation as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, assigned to the U.S Military Academy as an Assistant Professor.
Find out more about Mike here.
More About Amy
Amy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic. Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish.
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52 min - The 3 P's of Staff Wellbeing Transformation
Without the 3 P's you are likely to be hoping, waiting, or wishing things will be different. This isn't enough. Completing a one-day PD and seeing things instantly change isn't common. As an individual, or collectively in your workplace or school, you need to plan, prioritise, and participate long-term if you want transformation to occur.
How you can work with me and my team:
'Leading Staff Wellbeing; A guided enquiry to elevate and transform staff wellbeing and culture' will require participants and all staff to plan, prioritise and participate in the transformation of staff wellbeing and culture in their school. We start term 3. Find out more here.
Free Webinar Opportunity:
If the above sounds good, I am also running a free webinar on Monday May 22nd at 4pm. You can register here.
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19 min - Productivity, working differently, and getting the most out of your day with Donna McGeorge
In this episode, Donna and I chat about productivity and how to maximise time to have more space to do what you love. We also talk about why taking breaks are essential to how we work, feel, and live. Donna believes thriving workplace wellbeing allows you to have the time, space and capacity to show up as your best self in all aspects of your life. Her 3 messages are:
- You are the boss of you and your choices
- You need to build in a 15% buffer to your world.
- Focus on the clock in your body not the one on the wall.
Meet Donna McGeorgeDonna believes it’s about time we got off the vicious cycle of being out of control, overwhelmed and at risk of failing at the important things.
She is passionate about enhancing the large amount of time we spend in our workplace (too much, for many) to ensure it is effective and productive, as well as enjoyable.She lives on the Gold Coast, Queensland, a region known for its world-class beaches, but her most creative moments come while sipping tea on her balcony, gazing at the waterways, alongside her husband, Steve, and dog, Prudence.Donna believes that workplaces are complex, but not hard. More often than not it’s getting the simple things right, consistently, that has the greatest impact.She also knows that when we decide to be intentional, we can surprise ourselves with what we can achieve.Author of 11 books and publications, including bestsellers The 25-Minute Meeting, The First 2 Hours and the 1 Day Refund.www.donnamcgeorge.comMore About AmyAmy is founder of The Wellness Strategy, a published author, speaker, facilitator, and coach, and a leader in improving workplace culture and wellbeing in schools and organisations. As a past teacher and school leader, Amy is determined to change the way we view wellbeing to support our everyday and workplace needs. With a background in teaching and leadership and having studied human behaviour and positive psychology, Amy brings to the wellbeing space a fresh approach to what can be a sensitive topic.
Amy guides workplaces to understand the difference between individual and collective wellbeing to ensure all employees feel safe, valued, and fulfilled, and to bring about a workplace culture in which all staff thrive and flourish.Follow me on LinkedIn
Hang out on InstagramOrder my book
Email: [email protected]
39 min - Feel + Be = Do; A Wellbeing Formula
Let me share with you something I call Feel, Be, Do.
This formula is something I created when considering what wellbeing looks like when we try and implement tools, strategies, habits and new ways of feeling and being into our life. When we take wellbeing from knowledge to action.
For many, wellbeing is about doing things. Doing more activities, adding more to the to-do list, adding more to the strategic plan, adding more to the school vision, adding more to the day.
This way of thinking has led to many feeling tired when considering what to do about wellbeing before even beginning.
What's interesting is that wellbeing, when done well, is supposed to make us feel lighter, have more energy, live more aligned with our values, and how we want to feel. Yet too often it can be seen as too hard to achieve, something that's almost impossible, or something only lucky people can have.
However, wellbeing is not something to do or have, it's not an endpoint or an achievement, and it's not a goal or target. It is a way of feeling and being. When we know how we want to feel and who we want to be, doing follows.
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21 min - Personal responsibility and leadership.
In this episode, I share with you 5 things I had to take responsibility for when I recovered from burnout. I also share some reflections I have from being a school leader and how we need to extend compassion, patience, time and space as we embark on this journey that is the work of wellbeing.
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23 min
About Rethinking Success
From the publisher's feed
Rethinking Success is where Amy Green asks the questions that sit underneath everything else, about the stories we've inherited, the definitions we've never actually chosen, and what it would look…
like to build a life and a way of working that's genuinely fit for how we want to live now. This isn't a show about recovering from burnout or optimising your morning routine. It's a show for people who sense that something in the current model is fundamentally misaligned, and who are ready to think about what comes next. Bold, warm, and intellectually honest, Rethinking Success is a different kind of conversation about what it means to live and work well. Amy Green is a futurist, keynote speaker, and author of The Wellness Paradox — a book that interrogates the six paradoxes keeping us trapped in a version of success that was never designed to make us well. She is the founder of The Wellness Strategy and has spent years studying the intersection of work, life, and the systems that shape both.