In this essential book, international trainer and consultant Dr Lisa Cherry engages professionals from education, social work, healthcare, and criminal justice in insightful conversations on a range of vital topics that will make a positive difference for practitioners and their workplaces today.
With integrity and authenticity at its heart, the book explores what compassionate, inclusive leadership really looks like and how to get there. Each discussion brings a new perspective, exploring topics from nurturing belonging and anti-racist practices, to growing from adversity and supportive supervision. Placing an emphasis on learning from lived experience, collaboration, and caring deeply about others, these rich conversations share a range of trauma-informed practices and approaches which work, along with opportunities for the reader to reflect on themselves and their wider community. Children, young people and their families deserve the best version that adults can be, and each discussion helps all practitioners to understand that the work starts with us.
This practical book is designed for action, for change, and to create something better than we have experienced before. Settings, services and systems must view themselves as connected communities that have to be well if there is any hope of supporting the people they serve. This book will inspire and encourage leadership teams across sectors to enact a change in culture which makes a difference for all.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
Contributors
Introduction
Part One: LEADERSHIP
Chapter 1 – Introduction to Part One
Chapter 2 - A conversation with Emmerline Irving: A Journey Towards a Trauma-Informed System
Reflection
Discussion Points
Chapter 3 – A Conversation with Carrie Peters: Taking Care of People of People Who Bring Lived Experiences
Reflection
Discussion Points
Chapter 4 – A Conservation with Diana Osagie: Love in Education Leadership
Reflection
Discussion Points
Chapter 5 – A Conversation with Alexander Kemp: Getting Honest About the Wellbeing Offer
Reflection
Discussion Points
Part Two: BELONGING
Chapter 6 – Introduction to Part Two
Chapter 7 - A Conversation with Millie Kerr: The Implications and Need of Anti-Racist Strategic Action Planning
Reflection
Discussion Points
References
Chapter 8 – A Conversation with Hira Ali: Recognising and Addressing Islamophobia
Reflection
Discussion Points
Chapter 9 – A Conversation with Jane Hinchliffe: Decolonising the Workplace
Reflection
Discussion Points
References
Chapter 10 – A conversation with Karen Treisman: Reflecting on Intergenerational and Ancestral Trauma
Reflection
Discussion Points
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