Anchoring Our Understanding
Why teacher well-being
- What is stress
- Stress on our body
- Stress on our brain
- Stress and relationships
- Our stress and its connection to our students/classrooms
- Emotional contagion
- Self-regulation and co-regulation
- What is burnout
- Empathy vs compassion fatigue
- Defining well-being
- It’s more than just self-care
- Obstacles to self-Care
- Reflection
- Knowing what’s important – why we became an educator
- Reflection
- Digging into values
- Exercise
Bridging Our Understanding
Self-awareness with Mindfulness
- What is mindfulness
- Mindful breathing practice
- Mindfulness vs mediation in schools
- Backdraft and Resistance
- Grounding our feet practice
- Default Mode Network
- Mindful awareness to senses
- CALM body scan
Self-Compassion and Treating Ourselves with Kindness
- How do I treat a friend?
- Practice
- Three components of mindful self-compassion
- Misgivings of self-compassion/doubts
- Physiology of self-compassion
- Soothing and supportive touch and tone
- Self-compassion break exercise
- Loving-Kindness
- Practice
- Finding loving-kindness phrases
Seven Practices to Grow Resilience
- Courage
- Meeting difficult emotions with compassion
- Curiosity
- A meditation getting to know your inner critic
- Clear the Way
- Clear the way with compassion exercise
- Community
- Who will you turn to practice?
Expanding our Resilience
- Cultivate Care
- Savoring practice
- Gratitude exercise
- Creating Culture
- VIA Character Strengths
- Knowing our strengths
- Appreciating our strengths exercise
- Compassion
- Compassion with equanimity practice
Growing a Sustainable Well-being plan
- What do you need right now?
- Behavioral Self-Compassion
- Wellness wheel exercise
- Putting it all together
- Leaving with an intention