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Permission to Pause:

Getting Back to Yourself So You Can Lead Others

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Design Opportunities for Adults to Connect, Heal, and Cultivate Their Own SEL Competencies

  • Allow space for connection and healing
  • Provide professional learning
  • Maximize staff connections

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

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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

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physiology of compassion

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Talk to yourself the way you talk to someone you love

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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?

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