Description
Keeping the balance between self-giving and self-preservation is often a difficult undertaking, leading to exhaustion and even loss of interest in teaching/educating. The mind-body path of meditation will be favored to enhance such emotional hygiene. This contemplative attitude could lead us to more accurately sniff out the limits of the responsibilities of our role in respecting ourselves as individuals, by being more in touch with our own needs, not just in a reasonable way, but through our underlying emotions and bodily feelings.
Objectives
- Learning to (di-)manage stress through meditation to build resilience
- Transmit certain anchoring and self-presence techniques in concrete terms to your students
- Learn to keep your distance without losing your empathy by developing your assertiveness
Contents
Development of the ability to (1) refocus oneself by being intimately and authentically in touch with oneself, while being in direct contact with (and no longer under the influence of) the situation at hand; (2) give free rein to one's thoughts, emotions and sensations (without immediately repressing or expressing them) to paradoxically experience a natural decanting of one's "mental ruckus" and simultaneously an increased ability to "see clearly within oneself"; (3) practise your profession without over-reacting by activating conditioned patterns (attack-flight), but rather by responding to various demands with greater creativity (distance, flexibility and benevolence).
Methodology
Using concrete examples from problematic professional experience :
- Time for various mental/emotional management practices:
Mindfulness, deep relaxation, attention stabilization, body scanning, anchoring in the here-and-now, concentrative breathing, open meditation, metacognition, etc. - Role-playing and working in sub-groups to enable a better
- Sharing experience in intervision/supervision
Dates
To be determined/at your convenience, subject to availability:
1) the trainer's other commitments to ifc, cecafoc, etc. BUT generally speaking, as a full-time freelancer, I have a great deal of flexibility.
2) your training centers
Target audience
Staff members of ordinary, non-confessional, full-year secondary schools
Prerequisites
None required!
Apart from kindness, enthusiasm and open-mindedness.
Note to participants: sincere commitment and active participation in the exercises are essential if this training and your presence are to benefit you and the group.
Duration
3 consecutive days, preferably residential
(if unfortunately this is not possible, this training can be given in 2 days or even 1 day)
(If possible, 1 or even 2 refresher and in-depth sessions, i.e. 3×3 days, would be ideal).
Training locations
FCC training centers
Financial file
To be determined