understanding during critical periods, light bulb moments, or when we experience personal energy dip.


The final square is where we, as facilitators are now feeling crazy at the end of the programme. After the end of each year of the programme, we have encouraged all participants to go back to their centres to continue their leadership learning and to share their knowledge with others and utilise an opportunity to complete a Masters’ Degree.


But, this year the wider NPQICL facilitation community we are left thinking:


learning achieved through periods of disequalibriation from andragogic learning, assignments and the centre- based assessment. Symbolic buttons are strategically placed to highlight the support of mentoring, personal reflection and Leadership Learning Groups, often enabling participants to stick with the programme when they found new insights challenging. The top line focused on a movement from hierarchical thinking to the creation of a more flattened, distributed model of leadership in a children’s centre.


The central section represents key activities, tools and frameworks for


thinking. Look carefully and find the Sculpt, Fishbowl, Johari Window and Competence Continuum.


The bottom section of the patchwork charts a crazy period to the emergence of a happy successful and effective leader. But that middle square can also be the child who is supported by better children’s centre leadership. The importance of hospitality and friendship is acknowledged, in this case a reference to the importance of biscuits! Important in centres but also in those NPQICL coffee breaks where sweet sustenance and conversation can work wonders to improve our


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What about those new leaders? What’s happening for them? and What next?


So until something as good, if not better comes along that builds on the leadership repository of knowledge that is already working in our professional community, remember the cushion!


Senior teaching fellow in the Centre for Education Studies and the Centre for Lifelong Learning.


Sue Webster


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