RC-34 (Grades K-12)
It's About Balance: Well-Being, Renewal, and Stress Management for Educators (and Students, TOO!)
Tim Burns, Educare, Santa Fe, NM
Tim@TimBurnsEducare.com
  

Is it harder to keep up with the challenge of being an educator? Feeling more stress and not quite sure how to get things into balance? In truth, most of us—and our students—are these days. While there are no simple answers, this workshop will help bring your life and career into more healthful and enjoyable balance. Many of these practical insights will benefit your students as well.

The good news is this: small changes, specifically applied, have been shown to produce positive results in stress reduction, health improvement, and enhanced well-being. Research in fields such as stress management, human resiliency, wellness, martial arts, exercise physiology, the brain sciences, neuro-feedback, cardio-feedback, and positive psychology provides key principles and useful techniques that can bring about a calmer, more energized, and balanced approach to living and learning.

Offered to educators, counselors, and care-providers in over half a dozen countries, this workshop addresses theory, recent research and practical, effective techniques for immediate use in both your personal life and the professional/classroom setting.

Participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic science of stress and stress management.

• Understand the role of nutrition, hydration, exercise, and sleep in maximizing well-being.

• Utilize techniques from chronobiology and brain wave research.

• Creatively employ down-time as a key ingredient in optimizing well-being.

• Understand and employ specific movements from qi gong and tai chi known to de-stress the body and brain.

• Incorporate into the classroom three quick, simple and effective ways to de-stress the brain.

• Learn the key elements in The Relaxation Response and incorporate The Breakout Principle into classroom settings.

• Understand and utilize simple time-management strategies.

• Utilize three techniques from research on “heart intelligence.”

• Demonstrate a brief model lesson as it would be taught to students.

• Utilize over two dozen brain energizers to create a sense of calm energy.