How to manage stress and avoid burnout & Anti - stress techniques
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We all experience stress occasionally, and this is usually not worrying. A little pressure can help us focus better on our goals and improve our performance. Excessive stress, however, hinders our ability to work efficiently. For this reason it is useful to know some techniques that help manage stress and relax.
These techniques can be used at a difficult time, such as before an important presentation. They will help you concentrate and solve problems creatively and effectively. Regular use of these techniques can contribute to the long-term maintenance of a relaxed and calm mental state.
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Teaching is a demanding profession that requires dedication, resilience, and a commitment to personal well-being. By setting realistic expectations, establishing boundaries, practicing self-care, seeking support, and engaging in reflective practices, teachers can avoid burnout and continue to make a positive impact on the lives of their students.
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By implementing these tips, schools can create a supportive environment that fosters the overall wellbeing of students, enabling them to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
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Dr. Sanetti is an associate professor of School Psychology at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include implementation science, educator well-being., and school-based mental health. Her research has been funded by the US Department of Education and private foundations. Dr. Sanetti developed and evaluated a system of supports to facilitate teachers’ implementation of school-based interventions that is being adopted by schools across the country.
As Lisa Sanetti is quick to point out, most people can vividly recall their favorite teachers growing up. In her talk, Sanetti discusses the crisis of teacher stress which she believes is a problem whose affect won't be limited to the teacher and the students. She further explains why we need to pay more attention to this issue and outlines the possible implications of it.
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Dr Jacqueline Kerr is a mom, behavior scientist and burnout survivor. She is in the Top 1% of Most Cited Scientists worldwide and her work has informed the US Center for Disease Control Community Prevention Guide. Dr. Kerr left her position as a public health professor in 2018. She now hosts the Podcast 'Overcoming Working Mom Burnout' where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches, focusing on #mentalillness . She is on a mission to dismantle the causes of working mom burnout and #genderbias with individual, organizational and cultural change through behavior change science.
Job burnout is recognized by the World Health Organization, but there is also caregiver burnout, emotional burnout, and parental burnout that leads to #nervousexhaustion . While self-care helps you manage your stress it does not solve the structural inequalities that create the conditions that cause burnout. We need to use behavior change science to create individual, organizational and cultural change to prevent burnout.
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Sydnee Leathers is sharing about mental health for teachers. She discusses the struggle of trying to balance the personal stress of everything that has happened in the last 8 months with the expectations of being a good and present 2nd grade teacher. Sydnee teaches second grade at East Lindon and has had a passion for mental health advocacy since college. She has only been teaching for a few years but has already received recognition for her dedication to teaching and great communication skills.
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Teachers emotionally support our kids -- but who's supporting our teachers? In this eye-opening talk, educator Sydney Jensen explores how teachers are at risk of "secondary trauma" -- the idea that they absorb the emotional weight of their students' experiences -- and shows how schools can get creative in supporting everyone's mental health and wellness.
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Have you ever felt like your body was moving at a pace that was not sustainable? This is a personal account of how a Black Woman educator learned to put herself first as a way of surviving burnout. Racquel Armstrong is a native of Cleveland, OH and is a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University in Multi-cultural & Equity Studies. Her research sits at the intersection of race, gender, class and school leadership and focuses on the role of self-care in educational leadership practice and on disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline and racialized violence in schools. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Wellesley College in Urban Studies-Economics, a Master of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Business Administration from the Fisher College of Business. Beyond her scholarly work, Racquel serves as an Assistant Principal in Bexley City Schools and uses original poetry as a medium to spark dialogue around social justice issues. In her spare time, Racquel enjoys laughing, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.
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What if the root cause of burnout isn’t being overworked, underpaid, or hating your job but unresolved trauma? If we don’t explore the relationship between burnout and unresolved trauma we run the risk of losing a generation of cultural creatives and missing the opportunity to find elegant solutions to the challenges facing humanity today. Karen Curry Parker is a best-selling author of multiple books. She has been speaking, coaching, training, and podcasting about high performance living for almost 30 years, touching close to 100,000 lives around the world. Her core mission is to help people live the life they were designed to live by discovering who they are, what they are here to do, and how to activate their potential and authentic life path.
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Dr. Geri Puleo, SPHR, is the President/CEO of Change Management Solutions, Inc., a boutique B2B consulting firm helping clients who are planning, implementing, or struggling with change. The creator of the Burnout During Organizational Change (B-DOC) Model, she has over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience in the B2B and B2C markets. The founding president of Tri-State Society of Human Resource Management (a Superior Merit winner), she is currently launching a new SHRM chapter in the Airport area. The former author of 2 columns for E-Magnify and The Employment Paper (a subsidiary of The Pittsburgh Business Times), her blog, http://a-new-way- to-work.com, focuses on achieving professional success by reducing burnout and maintaining work-life balance during organizational change.
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Professional, high-functioning mothers are burning out, suffering in silence, and losing their higher sense of purpose. Dr. Agbai shares her own journey overcoming burnout and describes her three-step system to beat burnout and step back into destiny. Aligning with our highest purpose can be the antidote to burnout, and we need to give a voice to the most authentic parts of ourselves, in order to feel truly alive and able to give our best to our families and the world. Dr. Oma Agbai is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Director of Multicultural Dermatology and Hair Loss Disorders at the University of California, Davis in Sacramento, California. She completed her Bachelor of Science at Emory University, Doctorate of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine, Internal Medicine internship at Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Dermatology residency at the University of California, Davis.
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