Leadership Espresso – Leadership Support Circles – Acknowledge the Hurt

About the session:

Leadership Support Circles are part of our National Health and Wellbeing response to Covid19 to support the wellbeing of #OurNHSPeople. They provide evidence-based guidance and tools in a series of short, themed and interactive online sessions based on 10 principles for leading compassionately. Leadership Support Circles are a reflective space for managers at all levels to come together in a multi-disciplinary setting to share their experiences and be heard.

Leadership support circles offer time and reflective safe space for those with responsibility for managing others through:

Short, themed and interactive online sessions based on 10 evidence-based principles for Leading Compassionately During Covid19

A multi-disciplinary, interactive space for people managers at all levels to come together, share their experiences and be heard

Drawing on practices including Schwartz Rounds and Care Circles often used by clinicians

What will be covered?

During the session focussing on acknowledging the hurt we will give you the opportunity to:

• Come together as leaders
• Share experiences
• Be heard
• Work through complex challenges ​

Who is this session for?

Book your Place:

Reserve a place via our RSVP booking system below. The joining instructions, including the meeting room link, will be sent one week prior to the session. If your circumstances change and you can no longer attend, please email [email protected]

Although we will be able to see your name and email address upon submission, once extrapolated this data will be anonymised. We appreciate your support in providing this information, which will help us to ensure our leadership development interventions are widely accessible and inclusive.

The session will be virtually on Microsoft Teams

Our Commitment 

We are committed to making our training as accessible as possible (please see our accessibility page for what is currently available), we are aware that there is more that we can be doing. Please do contact us if there are any reasonable adjustments that we can make to support you to be able to attend this session. [email protected]t 

About the Facilitators

Beth Hill, Systems Leadership Senior Manager

Beth started her career as an accountant with Ernst and Young and joined the NHS through the GMTS. She has a good understanding of the NHS, having worked in many different organisations, in different roles and in different teams, before specialising in Organisational Development.  Her interests are system working, change management, leadership development and public health.

Beth joined the Leadership Academy in March 2021 to develop the systems leadership programmes.  She is a coach, with a particular interest inclusive coaching, MBTI facilitator, and an action learning set facilitator.

Jess Done, Leadership Development Senior Manager

Jess has a passion for the personal, educational and professional development of individuals; supporting the staff of the NHS to be able to deliver better health and care outcomes. She has extensive experience running complex strategic and operational programmes, and an understanding of embedding these within health and social care. After a number of years working in the corporate sector, she has returned to the South East Leadership Academy with a drive to build an inclusive leadership community and co-create truly innovative and successful leadership and organisational development solutions.