From Burnout to Balance: Strategies for Teacher and Student Wellness
Evidence-based, classroom-possible strategies to address burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress.
Available Online, Self-paced, and In-person.
The costs of caring are real.
Compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout are the consequences of unaddressed moral injury among educators. Discover strategies that will help you step into your power, regardless of your role in your school, district, or organization.
Self-care is the best vaccine against burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress. However, we cannot “self-care” our way out of unhealthy work environments, and we cannot ignore that most educators work in systems that–intentionally or not–expose caring professionals to moral injury.
When systems choose to ignore moral injury, the result is a work environment where educators suffer burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress. The practical consequence is that qualified, caring professionals are choosing to work elsewhere rather than suffer the costs of caring any longer. The moral consequence is that educators suffering compassion fatigue are struggling to care for those that they are professionally obligated to serve. This isn’t happening because educators are failing. This happens because the environment in which they work has failed them.
Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions.
The working conditions within a school are also our students’ learning conditions. From Burnout to Balance: Strategies for Teacher and Student Wellness is the perfect professional learning option to explore for any teacher, counselor, social worker, or school leader who has ever been told:
- To “make time for self-care” amid ever-increasing and impossible expectations,
- To focus on academics while their students’ basic needs are unmet, or
- To “remember their why.”
In this course, you’ll learn concrete strategies to step into your power and address moral injury, regardless of your role in your organization. You’ll also explore self-care in an entirely different way, and I’ll never lead you in a breathing exercise, ask you to drink more water, or tell you to slow down and take a break. Instead, you’ll decide for yourself what feels right for you and what you feel ready to do. Best of all, we’ll do the work together, showing up for each other however much or as little as you’d like!
Here is just one review from a participant in our self-paced online course:
