This article introduces an alternative qualitative research tool: metaphor and drawing, as projections of personality features, to explore underlying concepts and values, thoughts and beliefs, fears and hesitations, aspirations and ambitions of the research subjects. These two projective tools are used to explore Greek state kindergarten head teachers' unwillingness to assume headship post, although they agree that early childhood provision centres must be managed and led by early childhood professionals. The article also provides some hints on the leadership style of the respondents and the major constraints of the kindergarten internal and external environments the subjects have to cope with daily as these emerge from their answers to the research questions.