Webinar: Simple Steps to Self-Care for Educators

What are your current self-care practices? Do you take time to look inward to see what’s driving your outer responses to what’s happening around you? What can you do to balance yourself when the world around us seems out of control?

For many educators, burnout is at an all-time high and self-care is painfully absent.

We spend quite a bit of time thinking about how we’ll raise the next generation to be better than we’ve been. It seems in today’s time we see more challenge, more addiction, more children struggling, and more heartbreak. When we can better understand what’s happening inside of us, we can better understand what’s happening with the children in our classrooms. We can then use this knowledge and practice to create classroom cultures and climates that allow space for children to learn to do the same.

Join Conscious Discipline Certified Instructor Amy Speidel as she explores what our current practices of self-care look like, how we respond to thoughts and emotions and how to move toward healthy self-care and self-regulation practices.

Webinar Outline

00:22 Why has self-care become so complicated
02:55 Commitment for the webinar
03:46 Overview picture of today’s topic
05:41 What is self-care
07:45 “Hazard light” for the body
09:51 Ideas for fueling with food
11:06 Improving sleep and exercise
12:50 “Hazard lights” for mind and emotions
14:22 Why we turn to stuff when emotions arise
17:49 How to move from distractions to noticing and acknowledging our feelings
22:00 When flood moments arise
23:24 Is it a distraction/addiction or not?
27:04 What is it when emotions show up all around us?
29:55 Learning the language of our emotions
30:50 “Hazard lights” for our spirit
33:44 Shifting from judgment to noticing
35:46 Example of living out our values
37:55 How we take this information into our teaching experience
42:37 Taking a look at how we build classroom culture and climate
46:59 Resources for building the culture and climate we want vs. the one we inherited
49:15 Summary of what’s been shared
53:02 Steps toward beginning healthy self-care

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Amy Speidel

Conscious Discipline Certified Instructor

Amy Speidel is a delightful and insightful presenter, podcast personality and Conscious Discipline Certified Instructor. Her experience as an educator and as a Certified Parent Coach working with families within a pediatric practice provides the foundation for compassionate and relatable talks that engage parents, educators, and organizational leaders alike. Amy discovered the impact of Conscious Discipline as a teacher 20+ years ago when she witnessed a positive transformation in her students. She now aspires to support all adults who encounter children by sharing Conscious Discipline® with them through practical, user-friendly, and inspiring events. In addition to her work as a presenter nationwide, Amy has also delighted Conscious Discipline enthusiasts as co-host of the Real Talk for Real Teachers podcast since 2022.

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