The Self-led Educator: An IFS-inspired Guide to Create Calm, Compassionate and Confident Learning Communities
Let this powerful book be your guide to becoming a more calm, clear, compassionate, creative, curious and connected educator.
You can lead your school community toward excellence -starting with yourself.
“The Self-Led Educator, offers a clear roadmap for educators to cultivate calm, compassionate, and confident learning communities by fostering "Self-leadership" in themselves and their students. Learn practical strategies to navigate daily challenges, understand inner dynamics, and create a truly supportive and thriving learning environment.”
Gabby Bernstein | #1 New York Times Bestselling author
“I am so impressed with this book that I plan to recommend it to anyone who wants a clear model for how IFS can be applied outside of psychotherapy. We have ambitions to expand IFS and Self leadership beyond the limits of psychotherapy to areas like medicine, spirituality, social activism, business and political leadership, etc. and this book is a great template for that expansion.”
Dick Schwartz | Founder Internal Family Systems Therapy
“Wow! The Self-led Educator is a must read for all educators. Why? Because it shows how to have good working relationships with students, parents and members of the community. Its deep insights have the power to transform the atmosphere of classrooms, so that students engage with their lessons more effectively, whilst also developing and nurturing the positive aspects of their character. Joanna's book has the power to change lives, as it helps both educators and students to flourish!”
Dr Neil Hawkes | Global Advocate for Ethical Leadership, Founder of Values-based Education (VbE) and the IVET Foundation
“Joanna takes the deep and powerful tools of IFS and makes them simple, memorable—even fun! If every school adopted her approach, we'd unlock a kinder, calmer, and profoundly healthier society.”
Evan Sharp | Internet Entrepreneur, Co-founder and chief design and creative officer of Pinterest
“My years as educator of health professionals, teachers, and athletes showed me that facts are not enough to perform well in the real world. Emotional skills are essential and now can be easily acquired. In “The Self-led Educator” Joanna Curry-Sartori newly applies the scientific and user-friendly approach of Internal Family Systems (IFS) to fill serious gaps in current personal skill training for educators- including how to “put the oxygen on yourself before trying to teach others”. Using her practical PAUSE model offers welcome relief from the shame-based approach experienced for years by educators, children, and parents.”
John B. Livingstone, MD, FRSH | Child Psychiatrist, Member of the Harvard Medical School Academy of Medical Education; Co-author of “Relationship Power in Health Care” (2016), Routledge-Taylor & Francis.
“The Self-Led Educator is a compelling resource for anyone working with children. Joanna Curry-Sartori has created a gift for the reader as she navigates the educator through the process of personally actualizing the PAUSE process through descriptions, examples, and practice and then applying it with students. This is a must have book for educators seeking to nurture well-being, connections, collaboration, and caring that begins from within. Having experience with the power of the PAUSE Model, I highly recommend the Self-Led Educator.”
Karen List | PhD- School Superintendent Emeritus, Founder & Project Director PK - 3rd Grade Leadership Program, Neag School of Education, UCONN
“If you care about the adults who care about kids, buy this book. Give one to every teacher you know. Joanna Curry-Sartori has put in the work, both personally and professionally, and it shows. The Self-Led Educator is well-written and researched and is based on extensive global experience. It is both practical and inspirational.
The author has stayed focused on her mission to bring “self-leadership” to schools so that humans in schools can show up as their best selves. Reading The Self-Led Educator gave me a sense of hope – that “it is possible!”
Jody Nelson, Ed.D., LMFT | Senior Director, Change Institute, Minnesota, US
