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Description

Teachers have always needed to know and practice protective strategies in their social emotional first aid kits to manage the daily stressors of working on the front lines of a human-service oriented profession. That need has never been greater given the massive increase in uncertainty and unpredictability in the teaching profession and in one's personal life due to COVID.

In short, teaching is emotional labor-- the effort required to manage and metabolize strong emotions like anger, shame, guilt, anxiety, and overwhelm, as well as generate and stoke positive emotions like joy, hope, and compassion.

Stress significantly diminishes a teacher's capacity to regulate their negative emotions and cultivate positive emotions. Ironically, teachers who leave the profession often cite their inability to cope with their own emotional reactions to loss of control, unpredictability, and lack of purpose in their teaching as the primary reason for burnout.

There are many, many strategies and practices rooted in cognitive and affective neuroscience and social and behavioral sciences that teachers can learn, practice, and integrate into their personal and professional lives as teachers to metabolize stress, manage negative energy, protect themselves from the burnout cycle, and find joy in teaching the whole year through!

Learning Objectives

In this session, teachers will:

Present Well-BeingLLC

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Explore the core elements of the teacher burnout cycle and learn how to protect one's self from the 2 paths to burning out,

Teacher Commitment

Investing in the commitment of your teachers means investing in the emotional state and moral values of your educators (Hargreaves & Fullan, 2012). According to Hargreaves and Fuller in the book, Professional Capital, commitment is:

PURPOSE + DRIVE + DIRECTION

We know from the research, that 50% of new teachers flee the profession within the first 5 years due feeling a lack of emotional wellbeing and moral injury. Moral injury is described as a psychic wound that occurs when a teacher feels their values and purpose cannot be expressed in their teaching.

Present TeacherTM professional development is built on the foundational pillars of the origins of teacher wellbeing:

Perspective

Purpose

Passion

Gratitude

Self-Awareness

Making Art

Present TeacherTM professional development engages teachers in developing expertise in working their origins of their well-being through the Teacher Infinite Well-Being ProcessTM. Teacher learn how to move through the 4 elements of the well-being model to strategically and systematically use every experience in teaching to gain more self-awareness, greater perspective of situations and others, emotional intelligence, and compassionate relating to the self and their students.

When teachers learn how to use everyday teaching experiences as invitations into deepening their commitment to their calling to teach, their students, and their very selves through engaging the Teacher Infinite Well-Being ProcessTM,, they stage off burnout, moral injury, emotional fatigue, secondary trauma symptoms, and compassion fatigue.

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