International Christian school staff and leaders, what can you do to help yourself and your colleagues get holistically flourishing in Jesus?

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Take action! Do something to get yourself and your colleagues holistically flourishing in Jesus! Why?

  • Because taking action helps you and your colleagues get flourishing.
  • Because taking action helps you and others focus on flourishing, experience passionate purpose, and increase your well-being.
  • Because not taking action actually helps you and your colleagues remain where you are, possibly stagnate, and possibly use a victim mindset. Not good.
  • Because taking action is a best practice.

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Let’s start with you—what can you do to get holistically flourishing in Jesus? What comes to mind for me includes:

(1) Defining what holistically flourishing means. For me, it means consistently experiencing the 5 elements of flourishing:

(2) Getting a quick win—doing something that helps me build the momentum I need to take the next action step. Use Quick Win, which comes with a self-assessment and 35 sample action steps.

(3) Learning more about flourishing:

(4) Using a Personalized Flourishing Plan over the course of 3 years. As a result of using this plan, I’ll accomplish 15 action steps (3 for each of the 5 elements of flourishing: passionate purpose, resilient well-being, healthy relationships, transformative learning, and helpful resources).

(5) Using tools to help me deepen my understanding and focus on holistically flourishing. Here are sample tools:

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Now let’s focus on others—what can you do to help your colleagues get holistically flourishing in Jesus? Here’s what I’m thinking:

(1) Be sure you have started with yourself. Be sure you have gained some experience and understanding of holistically flourishing in Jesus by taking a sufficient number of action steps (see above).

(2) Share with 1 or more colleagues your interest in holistically flourishing in Jesus and your experience with 1 or more of the following:

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If you are a leader…

(3) Consider getting the leadership team to commit to exploring flourishing by…

Provided the leadership team wants to move forward organizationally with holistically flourishing in Jesus, take additional action steps, for example:

(4) Developing and implementing the Personalized Flourishing Plan at the leadership team level.

(5) Implementing a Well-Being Culture Plan. Unfortunately, quite a few school schools don’t yet have a plan like this.

(6) Developing vision scripts of what it looks like for students, staff, and leaders to flourish.

(7) Implementing a separate action plan on getting flourishing. Click here for 12 suggestions for what could be included in your plan.

(8) Deepening understanding of and focus on holistically flourishing in Jesus by creating and using the following tools:

Bottom line? Do something—starting with yourself and then helping others!

Get flourishing!

Michael