Description: Unleash the power of play in your leadership practice with this high-energy, interactive workshop designed for school leaders, aspiring leaders and anyone who influences staff culture.

Teacher wellbeing is the foundation of student wellbeing, yet staff meetings, PD days and leadership routines are often the least joyful parts of school life. This workshop flips that. Drawing on the Wolf Logic approach to human-centred leadership, you’ll experience first-hand how playful practice builds trust, psychological safety and genuine connection across a staff team, and how leaders can use it to drive culture change that lasts.

This session is packed with playful protocols, team challenges and culture-building strategies tested in schools across 25+ countries. Whether you lead a department of four or a campus of four hundred, these approaches are adaptable, inclusive and immediately usable.

Key Highlights:

• Play-Based Leadership Strategies: Learn how trust, vulnerability and connection, the foundations of psychological safety, can be built faster through shared play than through any policy document.
• Meetings Worth Attending: Practical ways to transform staff meetings and PD from information downloads into energising, connective experiences your team actually looks forward to.
• Building Strong Packs: Team-based challenges and protocols that strengthen collaboration, break down silos and help every staff member feel seen and supported.
• Leading Whole-School Wellness: How to embed playful practice into your school’s wellbeing strategy so it becomes culture, not just an event, and how to bring sceptical colleagues along for the ride.

Takeaways:

• A toolkit of playful leadership protocols you can use in your very next staff meeting.
• Practical strategies for building trust, belonging and psychological safety across your team.
• A roadmap for embedding play into whole-school culture, wellbeing initiatives and professional learning.

Whether you’re a principal, deputy, head of department or emerging leader, this workshop will inspire you to lead with more connection, courage and joy, and give you the tools to take your whole school with you.