Find a comfortable spot.
Relax your breath and begin to breathe deeply and slowly.
Allow any stress or tension to flow away into the earth below your feet.
You are at a time in your life when leadership becomes a reality.
It's a different feeling at this point of your childhood,
As now instead of being led,
You lead younger children and you are having to throw a searchlight on expectations for your own behaviour,
Your values,
Morals.
Knowing that you must lead by example,
Begin by visualising a golden set of beautiful hills ahead,
With stairs leading up to the top or the apex of one particular hill.
A staircase leads to the other side.
Walk towards the hill,
Take off your shoes,
And stand at the base of the staircase.
Illuminated on the first step is the word leadership.
Step onto this step,
Feel this word emblazoned underneath your feet and breathe it in through the soles of your feet and up into your heart and mind.
How does leadership feel?
Do you feel ready,
Stable,
Privileged to lead?
When you are ready,
Move on to the next stair and illuminated on this stair is honesty.
Feel it,
Sense it,
Breathe it in up through the soles of your feet.
Move it into your mind and heart.
How does it feel?
When you are ready,
Move up to the next stair,
Where the word fairness is emblazoned.
Step onto the word,
Breathe it in through the soles of your feet and up into your mind and heart.
How does fairness feel?
How do you relate to it?
Moving on to the next stair,
The word cooperation.
Sense it,
Feel it as you step onto the word and breathe it in through the soles of the feet.
How do you cooperate?
How do you relate to being with others?
Moving up the staircase to the next word,
Flexibility.
Step onto the word,
Sense how it feels and move it into your mind and heart.
How does this word feel?
How flexible are you?
Are you able to deal with more than one thing at a time?
As you continue up the stairs,
You reach the top of the hill.
You look around,
You begin to feel empowered.
Prepare for something interesting to happen.
As you step into the spotlight of leadership,
The qualities of a good leader are displayed before you.
You need now not to set yourself apart from those you lead or to see yourself holding a higher ranking.
The word service to others is illuminated,
Breathe it in.
As you begin to walk down the stairs on the other side of the hill,
You stop on the first stair with this word or these words service to others illuminated.
Breathe it in through the soles of the feet and see how this feels.
Can you lead by example?
Can you serve others?
As you move on to the next staircase,
The word wisdom is emblazoned.
Step onto it and see how that feels.
How do you relate to being wise?
Continuing to walk down the staircase,
The words nurturing appear.
How does nurturing others gifts and talents sit with you?
Breathe it in.
And on the next step is the word dedication.
Step onto it and see how you feel about being dedicated to your job.
And finally stepping down onto the next stair,
The word selflessness appears.
Step onto that word and see how you feel about focusing on others and not yourself.
Continue on and when you reach the base of the hill,
Feel ready to be of service to others in your school,
Community group or classroom.
When you are ready,
Wriggle fingers and hands and feet and toes,
Have a big stretch and open your eyes.
