Be Well, Learn Well: A Deep Dive into Wellbeing in Schools

Overview

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Explore a comprehensive professional development course designed to integrate wellbeing practices into educational environments through mindful teaching approaches. Engage with your inner meditator, artist, and warrior to cultivate personal and professional growth while developing reflection, creativity, and resilience skills. Apply mindfulness tools and resources in both personal life and teaching practice to foster greater compassion, connection, and understanding among students and colleagues. Navigate complexity and uncertainty through futures literacy, systems thinking, and deep ecology principles to understand the interconnected nature of self, community, and planet. Practice sustainable and holistic approaches across nature, economics, media, technology, society, and wellbeing domains while integrating shared tools for inner development. Learn to design student-centered, empathy-driven learning experiences that develop holistic global citizenship skills and dispositions in learners. Participate in an interactive learning community through activities, online forums, video reflections, and live seminars while creating a portfolio or story that documents your transformation and practical application of wellbeing concepts in educational settings.

Syllabus

Be Engaged: Cultivate personal and professional learning connected to our inner meditator (reflection, insight, peace), artist (creativity, joy, expression), and warrior (resilience, courage, peaceful action).
Live and Learn Mindfully: In our lives and teaching, apply tools, resources, and skills that cultivate opportunities for greater compassion, connection, understanding, and action.
Embrace Change and Interbeing: Be brave and engage with complexity and uncertainty through futures literacy, systems thinking, and deep ecology to understand how the interdependent nature of ourselves, our community, and our planet can lead to diverse and meaningful learning and action.
Demonstrate Sustainable and Inner-Development: Practice with and integrate a range of shared tools, resources and skills for thinking and acting sustainably and holistically for nature, economics, media and technology, society, and wellbeing.
Interpret and Create: Understand and design student-centered, Empathy to Impact learning experiences that bring out skills and dispositions of holistic global citizenship in learners.
Interact and Evolve: Share your personal and professional transformation with our learning community through activities, online forums, video reflections, live interactive seminars, and a portfolio or story that captures your journey and application of learning.