A New Chapter in Staff Wellbeing
For more than 10 years, I’ve been working alongside educators and school leaders to help schools rethink wellbeing.
Over that time, I’ve seen incredible people doing their absolute best inside systems that often leave them exhausted, stretched thin, and wondering how much longer they can keep going at this pace.
And if I’m honest, I’ve also seen a lot of wellbeing initiatives that sounded good on paper but never really changed how teachers experienced work day to day.
That’s what led me to create the Sustainable Staff Wellbeing System.
This system brings together more than a decade of research, practical experience, school-based implementation, and evidence-informed wellbeing strategies into one clear framework schools can actually use.
It draws on organisational psychology, positive psychology, coaching, and ecological wellbeing models to help schools move beyond one-off wellbeing activities and towards sustainable cultural change.
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The system uses an ecological lens to explain the interweaving layers of me-we-us. Me layers require us to develop wellbeing intelligence, We speaks to how we lead and connect, Us refers to how work is designed which can directly impact wellbeing.
Because staff wellbeing is not built through random acts of self-care.
It is built through psychologically safe cultures, supportive leadership, healthy workplace conditions, meaningful relationships, and systems that help people thrive rather than simply survive.
The fun name I’ve given this next evolution of the work is Teacher Wellbeing 2.0.
But underneath that is something much deeper and far more practical.
A clear, sustainable system designed to help schools create workplaces where educators feel supported, valued, and able to do meaningful work sustainably.
To introduce you to the Sustainable Staff Wellbeing System, I’ve created a free brochure outlining the key pillars of the framework and how it can support your school community.
Download the brochure from my website.
One Small Shift
Make a list of the staff wellbeing strategies you have been a part of at schools. How many of these strategies help you do your job? How many of these strategies help you manage student behaviour, assess, report etc?
Most strategies I see in schools are fun eg coloured sock day, pizza day, pinot and sip – and that's a good thing, but real staff wellbeing strategies are those that help me do my job.
The time is now to shift.
