Ultimate Self-care - It’s OK to Stop
Summary
Those in helping professions continue to quit their jobs in alarming numbers, despite numerous self-care and mindfulness initiatives. For many, the disappointment and guilt as they leave the work they love is crippling. It's OK to stop, and when teachers understand, they discover having the option may help them stay!
Given issues of; health, emotional conflict, economic pressures, pandemic requirements, and social divisiveness to name a few, the helping professions are under assault from both within and the outside.
Teachers are the single largest helping profession in the US. As of the 2020 census:
- 5.74 million teachers
- 2.39 registered nurses
- 331,407 firefighters
- 715,000 social workers
Job burnout rates higher for social service professions especially teachers continues to be high. One reason is that teachers care for children with trauma histories, they are at risk of developing compassion fatigue (CF), or a reduced empathic capacity. Additionally, teachers who left their jobs are saying that the pandemic played a role in why they resigned. Of the teachers who quit recently, 40% said the pandemic influenced their decision to leave. That's the highest portion of any category of workers to point to the pandemic as a reason for quitting.
In other sessions you will hear about many self-care activities including: Take a break; Set Goals: Say No: Create a Support System: and Connect with your Emotions. These are all good and important techniques for teachers. But despite self-care initiatives, teachers still leave the profession.
This session is designed to provide reinforcement for teachers who are at a point where they MUST leave the profession. This session will provide techniques for emotional support and care for those that have one foot out the school house door, or are already gone. But by providing this support for this option, some teachers are strengthened to stay, because they now understand it is their option and decision.
Ultimate Self-care - It’s OK to Stop
Those in helping professions continue to quit their jobs in alarming numbers, despite numerous self-care and mindfulness initiatives. For many, the disappointment and guilt as they leave the work they love is crippling. It's OK to stop, and when teachers understand, they discover having the option may help them stay!
Given issues of; health, emotional conflict, economic pressures, pandemic requirements, and social divisiveness to name a few, the helping professions are under assault from both within and the outside.
Teachers are the single largest helping profession in the US. As of the 2020 census:
- 5.74 million teachers
- 2.39 registered nurses
- 331,407 firefighters
- 715,000 social workers
Job burnout rates higher for social service professions especially teachers continues to be high. One reason is that teachers care for children with trauma histories, they are at risk of developing compassion fatigue (CF), or a reduced empathic capacity. Additionally, teachers who left their jobs are saying that the pandemic played a role in why they resigned. Of the teachers who quit recently, 40% said the pandemic influenced their decision to leave. That's the highest portion of any category of workers to point to the pandemic as a reason for quitting.
In other sessions you will hear about many self-care activities including: Take a break; Set Goals: Say No: Create a Support System: and Connect with your Emotions. These are all good and important techniques for teachers. But despite self-care initiatives, teachers still leave the profession.
This session is designed to provide reinforcement for teachers who are at a point where they MUST leave the profession. This session will provide techniques for emotional support and care for those that have one foot out the school house door, or are already gone. But by providing this support for this option, some teachers are strengthened to stay, because they now understand it is their option and decision.
