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RecenterED Ireland Pilgrimage & School Leadership Cohort
A year-long leadership development journey like no other!

What if you could step away from the ordinary, walk ancient paths, and rediscover your true rhythm—while building a community of deeply supportive peers?
School leadership is a sacred journey—a calling filled with both challenge and possibility.
Yet even the most inspired leaders need a place to pause, reflect, and be renewed.
That’s the heart of the RecenterED IRELAND School Leadership Cohort—a year-long experience that begins with a 6-day, 5-night pilgrimage through Ireland’s sacred landscapes and unfolds with coaching, connection, and intentional community support throughout the school year.
How it works:
6 days in Ireland – A pilgrimage of rest, rhythm, and restoration.
Year-long community of practice – Six peer coaching sessions plus individual coaching.
Tangible outcomes – Renewed purpose, clear strategy, and sustainable energy for leadership.
This isn’t just professional development.
It’s a pilgrimage—and a living community—that will sustain your soul, your vision, and your leadership.
Why This Opportunity Matters
If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know I have a deep heart for educational leaders. I am convinced that, if we want flourishing schools, we must ensure school leaders feel inspired, renewed, and reconnected to their purpose and mission.
That is why I’m creating a suite of resources and experiences that ground leaders in their deepest humanity and give them inspired strategy within a cohort of colleagues who get how demanding, difficult, and impactful school leadership can be.
Every school leader needs a community of practice—a space where you can be honest, vulnerable, creative, and inspired.
A space where you can be reminded that you're not crazy, you're not alone, and you're not the only one trying to lead with heart in a system that is daunting at best
That’s the heart of this experience designed just for you!
This is not another conference or seminar.
This is a year-long leadership formation experience providing inspired strategy and lasting community for you, your school, and the people you serve
Over the course of a year, you will get to know 14 other school leaders just like you!
Leaders who get it. Who can share insights and wisdom from the path. Who can support and encourage you as you do the same for them.
What makes this different:
A true retreat. Sacred landscapes that invite rest, reflection, and renewal.
Restored rhythms. Learn to lead from a pace that sustains your life—not just your work.
Community of practice. Walk alongside school leaders who share wisdom, encouragement, and accountability.
Coaching for clarity. 1-on-1 and peer coaching to align your vision, purpose, and strategy.
Leaders need communities just as much as they need strategies…and that is why this is such a unique opportunity—because it give you BOTH!
What you will walk away with from this year-long cohort:
A pilgrimage of rest & restoration
Join leaders for morning conversations over hearty Irish breakfasts, afternoons of walking and wonder in monastic ruins, and evenings of fireside meals and candid reflectionDiscover a renewed rhythm for leadership
Tap into the power of stillness and sacred landscapes to uncover deeper clarity, passion, and vision.Join a true community of practice
Walk alongside fellow school leaders who understand the weight of your work—but also believe in its transformative potential.Experience sustained support that sticks
After Ireland, the journey continues with six virtual peer-coaching sessions and personalized 1-on-1 coaching—designed to help you translate insight into action and keep you grounded in your purpose
This experience is for educational leaders from both k-12 and college/university.
If you are a school administrator, university president, superintendent, principal, head of school, assistant principal, counselor, district leader, instructional coach, division head, college dean, coach, department chair, coordinator, guidance counselor, director, or recognized leader at your learning institution, this opportunity is for you!
There are only 15 spaces for this unique, transformative school leadership cohort, so check it out now:
Looking for a resource to help you lean into your own deepest humanity as you lead flourishing schools?
The “The Flourishing School Leader’s Field Guide ” is for you!!!
Written for school leaders, this resource distills decades of leadership wisdom into actionable strategies you can start using immediately.
You’ll walk away with fresh insights, clear tools, and renewed confidence to lead your school toward greater purpose, passion, and flourishing
Blending practical tools with soul-nourishing reflection, this resource equips school leaders to thrive personally and professionally.
The Flourishing School Leader Field Guide is your essential guide to leading with vision, hope, and humanity—without losing yourself in the process
