3:00 - 4:00 p.m. (Session 7) 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
TUESDAY
Session 7 Breakouts Taking Time to B.R.E.A.T.H.E.: Strategies for Personal and Professional Resilience Joelle Hood, EdD, Thriving YOUniversity, Murrieta, CA Janeen Antonelli, MEd, Thriving YOUniversity, Yorba Linda, CA Let’s face it. Life is full of change and uncertainty and is pretty stressful right now for most of us. When students and staff experience chronic stress, it can negatively impact their motivation, performance, and well-being, which can then affect the morale and climate of the home, the classroom, the staff room, the organization, and the community. There couldn’t be a more important time to focus on strengthening our well-being and resilience than right now. Participants in this engaging workshop will walk away with simple research-based practices from the fields of mindfulness, positive psychology, emotional intelligence, and social psychology, that they can utilize with themselves, their teams, and their students to reduce stress and anxiety, improve attention and performance, and strengthen overall physical and psychological well-being. This transformational learning session provides an easy framework to give staff the understanding, motivation, and practices needed to work on becoming better humans, better educators, better leaders and better organizations. What Do You See When You Look at Me? A View Through Their Eyes Bea Lewis, MS, BEAHIVE Education Consulting, Jacksonville, FL It is often said that “perception is reality”, but the deeper question is “whose” reality. Despite our best efforts, there still exist challenging gaps in showing respect and courtesy to everyone, regardless of the differences. How do we do that? The mindfulness about how we perceive and are perceived in this session will be steeped with culturally congruent pedagogical practices This engaging, fun and interactive, real, raw, and relevant session will challenge and show attendees how to examine those subtle struggles or obstacles that we all face when looking at our students, parents, colleagues and the hardest of all, at ourselves. They will reflect, reconsider and self-examine how their perceptions might influence their expectations for not only their students, but also their fellow teachers, parents, school & community and subsequently, the ways they teach. Participants will leave with individual and building-wide self-assessments and activities that can be used to create a positive climate and culture of intentionally promoting inclusivity and positive relationships. Aware, Accepting and Able: A Mindfulness-Based Approach Supporting P-12 Students through COVID-19 Richard Cleveland, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA Jennifer Perry, PhD, NCC, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA In addition to the potential physical effects of COVID-19, students in P-12 may experience significant emotional and mental health effects. As p-12 systems continue to revise and alter COVID-19 responses, educators (teachers, school counselors, paraeducators, school psychologists, administrators) are looking for tools and resources to support students’ social and emotional well-being. This session presents a mindfulness-based approach for supporting students. The session will provide a summary of students’ responses to COVID-19, various P-12 responses, an introduction to mindfulness, and the Aware, Accepting, & Able framework. The presentation will incorporate dialogue between presenters and participants to provide a more rich learning environment.
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