Building Educator Resilience in Uncertain Times
Building Educator Resilience in Uncertain Times: A CalHOPE Community of Practice
Educators today face immense challenges—balancing student needs, navigating systemic pressures, and maintaining our own well-being. How can we cultivate the inner strength to meet these demands with compassion, courage, and hope?
Join us for a free, three-part CalHOPE Community of Practice, where we’ll explore GGSC’s new Mindfulness and Well-Being Modules for Educators. Connect with fellow educators in a supportive, reflective space—whether you join us for one session or the full series!
Free for California-based educators. Sessions are facilitated by Salina Espinosa-Setchko and held on Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00 pm (PT).
Wednesday, 3:30-5 pm PT
Free on Zoom
We’re often easier on and even kinder to others than ourselves. How do you treat yourself after a challenging moment in the classroom? Are you kind and forgiving or overly critical of yourself? Do you lie awake at night ruminating on mistakes from the day, or ones that happened long, long ago? Are you afraid to try something new because you might fail or face harsh criticism—perhaps from others, but mainly from yourself?
What would happen if, in all these scenarios, you chose to, as Brené Brown suggests, “talk to yourself as you would someone you love?”
Self-compassion—or extending kindness and compassion to ourselves—has been shown to protect educators from burnout. Indeed, self-compassion can help lessen the mental pain we inflict on ourselves when we bully rather than love ourselves. Self-compassion can also help improve our teaching by reducing stress, improving emotion regulation, and even promoting teaching practices that lead students to more autonomy and motivation.
In this 90-minute session, you will:
- Recognize the ways self-criticism shows up in your teaching practice and how it impacts your well-being
- Learn practical strategies to cultivate self-compassion, even in challenging moments and in the uncertain times we face as educators
- Experience guided practices to help shift your inner dialogue from harsh to supportive
- Leave with tools to reduce stress, prevent burnout, and create a more sustainable, fulfilling teaching experience
Wednesday, 3:30-5 pm PT
Free on Zoom
As educators, we face classroom challenges, from fostering a safe, inclusive, and engaging learning environment to supporting students’ emotional and social development.
We may also contend with broader system-level challenges, including disgruntled community members, outdated school policies, relentless workload, and time pressures—as well as students’ growing mental health issues. To face these obstacles on a daily basis and not succumb to a world-weary sense of grief or Monday-morning dread requires COURAGE.
Courage is the ability to take noble action in the face of uncertainty and risk. In other words, courage can help us be the people—and the educators—we want to be.
In this 90-minute session, you will:
- Explore what courage looks like in the classroom and in your school community
- Identify common fears and barriers that hold us back from taking bold, values-driven action
- Learn research-based strategies to cultivate courage, even when facing resistance and uncertainty
- Engage in self-reflection and practices to strengthen your resilience and cultivate courage
Wednesday, 3:30-5 pm PT
Free on Zoom
As teachers, our ability to inspire and motivate our students is supported by our ability to maintain our sense of hope—hope in our own abilities to inspire learning, hope in our confidence to do a good job, and hope that all of it is going to contribute to a new generation of young people who are motivated and have the skills to make a difference in the world.
Embracing hope can not only rejuvenate your passion for teaching but can also empower you to create a supportive and encouraging environment for your students.
In this 90-minute session, you will:
- Reflect on the challenges that make it hard to sustain hope
- Explore research-based practices that help foster and sustain hope, even in challenging times
- Learn how cultivating hope can positively impact your teaching, motivation, and well-being
- Engage in a reflective practice to reconnect with your purpose and values and build a vision for a hopeful future
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Do you want to dive deeper into the science behind our GGIE practices? Enroll in one of our online courses for educators!