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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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,
We support our
Minnesota Department of Health SHIP staff in bringing research-based professional learning and well-being opportunities in:
MINDFULNESS
MENTAL HEALTH
TRAUMA-INFORMED SCHOOLS
School Based SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL LEARNING
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Present Well-Being LLC is a
Certified Equity Vendor
for mental and social and emotional learning (SEL) consultation for school districts and mindfulness training for educators and school leaders.
State Vendor Number: 0001036635
Primary NAICS Code: 621330
For Schools
The Present Teacher Restoration ProjectTM
is an inspiring 4 hour self-paced, online mental health and well-being professional development offering that focuses on providing our educators, administrators, and school support staff with systematic, research-based practices in mental health and emotional resilience support for sustainable well-being in the midst of a global pandemic and our collective mission of social justice work.
The Present Schools ProjectTM is an innovative professional development training designed to engage school personnel, educators, and administrators in expanding their knowledge and embodiment of the foundational elements of holistic school wellness:
Social and Emotional Learning
Well-Being
Embodied Equity
Present Teacher ∞ Present StudentTM is a synergistic professional development training program. This transformation opportunity combines the philosophies, practices, and strategies of both Move Mindfully® and Present Well-Being® into one complete program supporting the physical, mental, and emotional well-being for teachers and students.
For Health Care and SHIP
The Healing Health Caregiver ProjectTM is an evidence-based, experiential curriculum of emotional healing, mental health, and burnout restoration designed for health caregivers. We know that our health caregivers "support and maximize human
and system capacity and potential" (Kreitzer and Koithan, 2019), and our curriculum is designed to support and maximize their capacity and potential.
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Two years of COVID response have contributed to increased stress and burnout, as well post-traumatic stress symptoms for our public health caregivers, according to the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS).
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The Healing Public Health Caregiver ProjectTM is an evidence-based, experiential curriculum of emotional healing, mental health, and burnout restoration designed for public health caregivers.
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