The Growth Network

The Growth Network adds the missing ingredient of leadership development, community. Facilitated peer support communities focus on the long term development of middle leaders as people, enabling them to act as peer coaches to apply their professional knowledge and training.

Community is central to our method because identifying what you want to do is a lot easier than achieving your goals. In a community leaders can support one another with empathy as they face similar experiences. Our facilitators are all school leaders who understand the challenges participants are facing and are able not only to act as coaches, mentors and guides but also to enable participants to become coaches and facilitators for one another.   

Our core values are dignity and integrity. Dignity is about valuing the wellbeing of each leader, ensuring that staff members maintain a healthy focus on their personal lives. Leaders with integrity do the best possible job in their role no matter what their context. Leaders with both dignity and integrity thrive as they maintain a healthy balance between their personal and professional lives.  

Resilience Communities are built on a core foundation. Each member begins by identifying and sharing their mission, values, objectives and habits. This enables participants to clarify their motivations and ensure that they focus on the right things. 

Putting mission, values and objectives into practice requires healthy habits which need to grow over time. We share a small number of core habits which enable you to discover;

1. Who you are 
2. Who you want to become and what you want to achieve
3. How to manage the process

Membership of a Resilience Community is also membership of a much wider network of leaders in schools across the UK and beyond. By joining our community, members continue to access content, resources and events which promote resilience and build supportive relationships which can last for an entire career. 

In an intense and demanding educational sector the wellbeing of staff is not just an Ofsted expectation but a necessity for a thriving school community. The growth and wellbeing of every member of your community rests on the wellbeing of staff, especially the middle leaders at the centre of so much of what you do.