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Sustainable Caring for Teachers

“You can’t pour from an empty cup”

Online Hybrid course starts January 11, 2022 | 3:30 – 4:30pm PST |

 

Why Sustainable Caring for Teachers?

 

We know that teaching has always been challenging.  But never has teaching been as difficult and stressful as it has been these last two years, with unprecedented changes, demands, remote learning, and mental health challenges arising in the classroom.  Burnout rates are at an all time high, with more and more of our teachers questioning their chosen career’s meaning and purpose.

 

Preserving the mental health of our educators should be a critical priority for all of us.  

To this end, Sustainable Caring for Teachers (SCT) was created–to care for the very individuals who are central to the future of our children and communities.  Sustainable Caring for Teachers is a six week digital course that focuses on cultivating resilience and preventing burnout, through the development of internal resource tools such as mindfulness, self compassion, and positive psychology.  

 

Sustainable Caring for Teachers was created by psychiatrist and wellness consultant Dr. Monisha Vasa, mindfulness expert Cayce Howe, and Christy Curtis, mindfulness and SEL educator.  Together, they will walk you through six weeks of skill building, practice, and experiential learning.  At the end, you will have indefinite access to all of the covered information (including audio recordings, readings, videos, and guided meditations) in a digital format.  

 

By the end of the six week course,  you will experience:  

  • Greater resilience

  • Improved tools to manage burnout

  • Improved work-life integration

  • Improved stress management

  • Greater clarity

  • Greater connection to purpose and meaning

  • Improved relationships

  • Development of a personal, sustainable meditation practice

Teachers, we hope to have the opportunity to finally support and care for you in the same way you support and care for your students.  

 

All Classes Meet on Tuesday’s from 3:30 – 4:30PST Zoom (please attend all that your schedule permits) 

Class 1 : January 11th

Class 2 : January 18th

Class 3 : January 25th

Class 4 : February 1st 

Class 5 : February 8th 

Class 6 : February 15th 

 

 

Pricing:

$150

 

CAHPERD

California Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance State Conference

"2020 In Focus"
Hyatt Regency - Orange County

Friday February 21st 8am – 9am

Yoga: The New PE

Ready to provide your students with the life-changing skill of experiencing a body, mind, and heart connection? This interactive workshop will introduce physical educators to the primary tools of integrating yoga into PE as part of a warm up/cool down or weekly class practice. Educators will be introduced to postures that support students in stress-reduction, focus, more energy, empowerment, sense of community and fun. Learn how to adopt a new approach to physical education that serves as self-care for educators and students while increasing attentional stability, emotional regulation, and greater efficiency to the body-mind connection.

Registration:

https://www.cahperd.org/Public/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=2020SC

Mindfulness for Parents Workshop
Tuesday February 25th @ 6 PM,
2020 Capistrano Valley HS

Mindfulness Tools for Parents & Student Well-Being Workshop – Parents will be introduced to common issues and trends negatively impacting teens today, and how parents can assist their children in navigating the daily stresses and pressures of high school. Parents will learn basic mindfulness tools for themselves and their children, as well as how mindfulness relates to the social-emotional development for students. Additionally, strategies will be shared to create a mindfulness practice at home. Tuesday, February 25th 6:00pm in Cougar Hall

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” — Robert Fulghum

Presented by: Christy Curtis, Mindfulness and Physical Educator & Qualified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher

Mindful Education Retreat for
Capistrano Unified School District

Saturday January 11, 2020

9am – 12pm

Sign up: Click on Truenorthogic for course details and to register. 

Location: Capistrano Valley High School

CUSD Educators: Professional Learning opportunities available in the new year!  All employees are eligible to participate in any class relevant to their position.  Certificated staff will receive column advancement credit for all classes, and certificated and classified members are eligible for reimbursement on select classes.   

Mindful Educator Retreat Information

Immerse yourself in a day of self-care and mindfulness meditation practices that restore a sense of balance, vitality, and overall nourishment to a fragmented and burned out nervous system that has endured the impact of the educational profession. In this retreat, you will directly experience mindfulness and cultivate the skills to:

  • Develop a personal mindfulness meditation practice• Enhance personal social emotional development
  •  Experience the direct effects of gratitude and mindfulness through the practices of gentle yoga, mindful walking, mindful eating, and journaling
  • How to incorporate mindfulness into daily classroom setting
  •  Build a network community of mindful educators through co-learning activities and resources

The intentions of this retreat are to build a capacity of personal support to foster a change in the way educators offer a learning experience by placing student and teacher well-being first in order to add greater connections and meaning to the teaching profession.  By developing teachers with social emotional competence, we in turn develop better students with the same qualities.

For more information, please contact me at [email protected]

Mindful Eating Workshop

Wednesday January 22, 2020  6pm – 8pm

Pacific Health & Wellness Center

Food!!!

Perhaps a love- hate relationship or no relationship with food at all? Eating is a part of our daily experience and an immediate gateway to being present to our daily lives. But the experience and relationship with eating has transformed into a mindless act–eating on autopilot, driving the car, watching tv, etc . We are bombarded with information on what to eat, how much, why, when to eat…but what happens when you learn how to use mindfulness as a gateway to BEing present? Your body and mind deserve a gift of nourishment from the inside out.

Join me…

6pm – 8pm

Wednesday January 22, 2020

Pacific Health & Wellness Center

34700 CA-1 Suite 209, Capistrano Beach, CA 92624

Registration $35.

Options: Venmo (@Christy-Curtis-2), cash at the door or paypal link

In this workshop you will learn:

  • Practical methods of awareness to help break the cycle of mindless eating
  • How to distinguish physical versus emotional hunger
  • Become aware of food related triggers and acquire the freedom to choose your response
  • Experience and acquire scientifically proven mindfulness tools for greater well-being and body-mind health

2001 – 2008 – Now

My journey with food has been a gnarly ride. As an emotional eater, I used food as a numbing device to cope with stress and overwhelming emotions, or would avoiding certain foods altogether only to be triggered by cravings that lead to indulgence, followed by guilt and remorse.

What if there was a way to eat with more awareness and develop a healthier relationship with food?

Since my teen years, I used food as a way to cope with stress and stuff down difficult emotions. Food was a quick fix to feed a hunger that could not be fulfilled by exercise, relationships, my career, alcohol, or any other mindless distractions. As much as I thought of food as a source of nourishment, unhealthy patterns and behaviors developed  involving food, which became an outlet to fuel what wasn’t getting emotionally processed in my life. I would eat just to eat or relied upon the clock to determine when or how much I ate. I missed being present to internal cues of fullness, hunger, taste, satisfaction and more. I felt powerless over cravings and guilty for poor choices of treating my body with such disrespect.

The practice of mindfulness and learning tools to develop a balanced relationship with food and eating led to more awareness and appreciation of food.

If you have traveled this path or are ready to have a more positive experience with food, there is a way to be fully satisfied and nourished!

Join me to learn and experience Mindful Eating at Pacific Health & Wellness Center to learn the life changing skill of mindfulness through eating. You will be supported by a community of other individuals who are willing to become aware of choices and empowered by tools to befriend a struggle with food. You hold the keys to a healthier and balanced life! Let it start NOW.

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