Permission to Pause:
Getting Back to Yourself So You Can Lead Others
Design Opportunities for Adults to Connect, Heal, and Cultivate Their Own SEL Competencies
The pandemic has underscored social and emotional learning
as an essential part of high-quality education–highlighting our
relationships, resiliency and collective problem-solving as fundamental
to teaching and learning.
#caselcares
We Are Wired for Connection
Choose 1 of the 3 Options to Respond To
What would you like to re-experience because you did not appreciate it fully the first time?
If people came with a warning label, what would yours say?
What have you done in the last six months that you’re most proud of?
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Perfectionism
Numbing
Being Right/Knower
Cynicism/Criticism
Shame and Blame
Action Bias/Fixing
Hustling for Validation
Comparison
Control & Compliance
Overfunctioning/Underfunctioning
Armor: when things feel unmanageable
physiology of compassion
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Talk to yourself the way you talk to someone you love
Awareness
Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standar
Balance
A mental and emotional steadiness. Finding balance does not come from giving equal parts to all things.
Connection
The energy that is created between people when the feel seen, heard and valued; they can give and receive without judgement.
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Where/When could you share a quick activity with the people you lead?
What would need to happen in order to make educator wellness a priority?
What do you think the impact would be of even a small initiative?