Mind-Body Classroom – Caring for Yourself & Your Students

As educators, it can be challenging to unplug from the reality of teaching and take time to recharge your batteries. You may find yourself feeling, stressed, overwhelmed, demoralized, compassion fatigued, or burnt out. Such negative emotions often accompany the joys of being an educator in the 21st-century classroom. How you care for yourself, not only impacts you as a person and a professional, but it also impacts your student’s wellbeing. Connecting your mind, body, and classroom can ease the challenges you face as a teacher while engaging your students in the process and helping to teach them skills that they can use in their everyday lives. In this interactive workshop, you will learn quick, easy, and inexpensive (or free), self-care techniques to incorporate into your daily routine and your classroom. You will learn to evaluate your current strengths and weaknesses around self-care and learn about best practices and the benefits. Being able to care of yourself while taking care of others is critical. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to begin designing your self-care practice and connect your practice to your classroom or school setting. Make time for you; your future self will thank you.