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Key to your long-term resilience as an educator is self-care. Self-care is a matter of maintaining energy equilibrium, by inventorying and strategically allocating energy in a way consistent with your boundaries, values and priorities. This module will let you put that together into a self-care plan that's specific, actionable, and effective at reducing burnout. Completing this task is the first step toward increasing the overall energy you have for the things that matter.
Where to begin depends on what parts of the burnout and self-care trainings you've been part of or want to know more about. To make an effective self-care plan, it's best that you complete three tasks introduced to most in Eudora Schools in November: Completing a burnout inventory, an energy inventory, and a vision clarification exercise. If you didn't complete those, start with the Introduction materials directly below, to optimize the likelihood your self-care plan will be effective.
Nov 3 Eudora Intro.mp4Watch the brief (2:28) video to your left.
Complete the Maslach Burnout Inventory (anonymous link)
This is a brief 22 item survey which may take 5-6 minutes to complete. It will provide your scores at the end.
Complete this Energy Inventory
Download this basic self-care practices survey and complete it, which will take you about 15 minutes.
Clarify your vision by clicking here! Downloading the form and completing this task in a way that is meaningful will take reflection, and might be done in about 25-30 minutes.
Next, if you didn't attend Jim's 50 minute burnout presentation at the Dream Big Conference, you may find the information presented helpful and useful. You can access a version of it done last year as a podcast or as a video presentation (both 36 minutes long). Doing so will make clear why the content on the planning form is important. But no worries, you will have no problem completing the planning form without attending to the presentation.
Click here for a 13 minute podcast version, but if you do so, you'll miss seeing Jim's Santa Claus beard in its full glory.
Click here for a 35 minute video version, and you'll be prepared to defend Jim from his wife's absurd claims that his beard "makes you look old" and "looks like a rat's been chewing on it."
You'll find these presentation handouts (all are .pdfs) interesting:
READY TO COMPLETE THE SELF-CARE PLAN?
Recent research suggests that, if you take the step of completing a self-care plan after attending to these earlier tasks, you'll be much more likely to practice self-care, have lower burnout scores, and be more likely to remain a resilient educator.
Jim created this self-care planning form based on the research he presented at the Dream Big conference. Please send feedback on the form or anything else related to this topic to jpersinger@eckce.com.
Download the plan and get to it! The time you'll spend completing this will be returned to you many times over in greater focus and energy going toward the things that will make the most difference to you, your family, and your students.
About me
Dr. Jim Persinger is a school psychologist and counseling psychologist. After eight years as a teacher, counselor, early childhood coordinator and school psychologist, he joined the faculty at Emporia State University in 2000. Jim joined ECKCE as the Assistant Director in 2023.
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