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“What we are ethically called to do is create a safe space in our schools and classrooms where all students can walk in and, for that day or hour, take off the crushing weight of their armor, hang it on a rack, and open their heart to truly be seen.” – Brené Brown

Dare to Lead Daring Classrooms

“What we are ethically called to do is create a safe space in our schools and classrooms where all students can walk in and, for that day or hour, take off the crushing weight of their armor, hang it on a rack, and open their heart to truly be seen.” – Brené Brown

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Dare to Lead #daringclassrooms is an extension of the Dare to Lead™ research and curriculum developed by Dr Brené Brown and adapted specifically for educators. It is taught by Julia Kerr Henkel, a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and MD of Lumminos.

Educators, teachers, learners & parents you are some of our most important leaders. Answer your call to courage, take action and dare to lead!

Why is daring leadership so relevant?

For teachers to be role models and guardians of spaces that allow learners to breathe, explore, stretch, grow and be curious, they have a great responsibility to not only see themselves as leaders but also to develop their leadership skillset. So, our primary goal is to provide all educators with courage-building resources, some freely available, to help you develop your own daring leadership skills, and to deepen connection and trust with your teams, learners, parents and communities. Our secondary goal emerged from requests from teachers worldwide who enjoy the work and research of Brené Brown and asked: How can I bring more of these learnings to my staff and into the classroom?

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Courage is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, observable and measurable.

So, how do you dare to lead?

Dare to Lead™ is a customisable curriculum for scaling courage in your organisation, school or community. There are four key skillsets to courage-building that can be taught, observed and measured:

  1. Rumbling with Vulnerability

  2. Living into your Values

  3. BRAVING Trust

  4. Learning to Rise

What will you learn?

By attending the Dare to Lead #daringclassrooms training or any format of the curriculum options you will learn to:

  • develop the core courage-building skillset to be put into action in your classroom, staff room, school community, educational department and life
  • rumble with vulnerability – that emotion we all experience when faced with uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure
  • articulate your key values and supporting behaviours so you can lean into and live more fully according to your values especially when needing to have courageous conversations
  • BRAVE and enhance trust levels so necessary for respectful relationships and,
  • to develop shame resilience in yourself, those you lead, influence and teach – the ability to rise strong after a setback, disappointment or failure.

“Creating safe and brave spaces for our teachers to lead in and our children to learn from is crucial for the future of our communities. A leader is defined as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential. Teachers are therefore some of our most important leaders. So much depends on our youth being given equal access to quality education, future fit skills and educators who care and dare to develop themselves as leaders as well as those future leaders in their classrooms. So many teachers place all emphasis on the learning of those in front of them, forgetting the ongoing relevance of upskilling and developing themselves. Can you imagine what is possible if more teachers and parents could demonstrate the courage-building skillset at the heart of daring leadership?”– Julia

KEY CONSIDERATIONS FOR YOUR ROLLOUT

  • The Dare to Lead™ Curriculum can be segmented and introduced as part of any existing program ie: it serves the purpose of being both the primer and base coat for any professional development, team learning or skills development initiative as the work names and pre-empts the behaviours which will no doubt emerge in the rollout and the skills and techniques needed to deal these when (not if) they show up – ensuring greater chances of stickiness and overall success.
  • There are pro’s and con’s to having mixed groups or in-tact teams in a room – the best approach will be agreed with you, the team leader and or human capital business partners.
  • All options offer a blend of learning styles – keynote, teach pieces, interactive workshopping, reflection and activities. The Dare to Lead full curriculum combines videos, in-person facilitation, and exercises.
  • The objective is to create a safe, inspiring, humour-filled and yet challenging environment for all who participate – we’re talking about being brave here people!
  • All full day options include training workbooks, support materials, viewing of Brené Brown video footage not available to the public, online evaluation and certification of training.
  • Those that complete the full 24+ hour curriculum also receive an approved badge to be used on their LinkedIn profiles highlighting they have been Dare to Lead Trained in the 4 skill sets.

Vulnerability is the feeling we all experience when faced with uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure