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Techniques & Self Care Tips To Help Avoid Blowups and Burnout

Have you ever felt that you have simply come to your wit’s end while working with youth and students, often times resulting in higher stress levels on and off the job? Although, working with youth and students can be super fulfilling and joyous most times, at other times it can be extremely challenging. One thing we can do to start us down a well adjusted self-care and wellness pathway is to remove the notion of control over young people, and think of the related dynamics more as building cohesiveness. Facilitators, Teachers, and Providers – while responsible for building these dynamics with their youth and student teams – must also be equitable, charming, fun, enthusiastic, welcoming, and likable. We can be all of these things much better for ourselves and our young people through positively and effectively joining our didactic nature, our education, our lived experience, our professionalism, and our personal demeanor into a more cohesive structure that extends to our students and youth. This workshop provides tips and techniques for Facilitator’s, Teacher’s, and Provider’s own regrouping, renewal, reflection, and replenishment. Resulting in a big picture perspective that is fed by a stronger connection to self, your mission, and your personal and professional why.

Learning Objectives
– Gain techniques for engaging with young people on a more equitable and cohesive plain in order to create a more effective two way devlopmental teaching and learning experience.
– Learn methods to help you stay cool, calm, collected and connected.
– Find renewed value and reason in your mission and work.

This workshop consists of various interactive components. From guided discussion to hands on activities for small and large group and opportunities to share out.

All Sunny Boy programs are based in Social Emotional Learning…

…including SEL Program Quality Assessment and Social Emotional Advanced Learning, always adhering to the core competencies of SEL and related disciplines:

  1. Self-Awareness
  2. Self-Management
  3. Responsible Decision Making
  4. Social Awareness
  5. Relationship Skills

These core competencies and related disciplines are vital and many times required by schools, districts, and youth organizations as a basis for solid educational programs.

(Sunny Boy is certified in Social Emotional Learning Program Quality Assessment by the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality.)