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The Wellbeing Webinar Series with Kristin Anderson

Feb 3, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

$175
When:

February 3, 2021 – 6:30-8:00pm
February 17, 2021 – 6:30-8:00pm
March 3, 2021 – 6:30-8:00pm
March 17, 2021 – 6:30-8:00pm

 

Where
Zoom Online Virtual Training

 

Fees
Full Series Member Price: $175
Full Series Non-Member Price: $200

Per Session Member Price: $49
Per Session Non-Member Price: $64

*A $49 service fee will be retained for cancellations. Cancellations received less than 7 business days prior to the session will be charged a 50% cancellation fee.


SCECHs

Participants may earn SCECHs for this event.

Questions?

Contact Taryn Hurley
taryn@memspa.org
517-694-8955

THE WELLBEING WEBINAR SERIES

A Series of 4 Webinars

According to UNESCO, schools around the world must recruit 69 million new educators to reach their 2030 educational goals – a tall order at any time, but especially now when 80% of our current educators are considering leaving the profession. The quality of a school system lies in the excellence of its educators; if their wellbeing is deteriorating we can predict this will have a devastating impact on how and what children will learn and become for decades. 

Our fundamental goal as a field should be to promote educator flourishing by fostering their well-being. Teachers and school leaders are the most extraordinary resource we have in education, and therefore must be given opportunities that strengthen and edify them for the long haul. Tending to one’s wellbeing isn’t selfish and something we should do when we have time, rather it is our most imperative priority. 

This practical and immediately applicable webinar series will unpack what wellbeing is, why it is critical to our profession, and then introduce the concept of building psychological capital through encouraging educators to unleash their inner HERO (cultivating their Hope, Efficacy, Resilience and Optimism).


Wellbeing: Enabling Educators to Thrive and Not Merely Survive

Date: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 from 6:30-8:00pm/est

Topics include:

  • What is wellbeing? 
  • Why is it critical that we attend to our wellbeing?
  • How is wellbeing related to stress, burnout, and teacher turnover 
  • What is psychological capital? How is it connected to wellbeing?
  • How can psychological capital be built in order to develop and accelerate well being?

Session Length: 90-minutes of facilitated conversation

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Hope and Optimism: Something Better Awaits Us

Date: February 17th, 2021 from 6:30-8:00pm/est

Topics include:

  • What is hope and optimism?
  • What do we place our hope in?
  • What tarnishes our hope(s) and places limitations on our optimism?
  • How does hope and optimism impact wellbeing?
  • A research-based formula for cultivating hope 
  • Explore methods for making hope happen for you, and those around you, in any setting
  • Not just touchy-feely states; the power of hope and optimism (especially in turbulent times) 
  • Pessimists vs. optimists 
  • How can we change our thinking processes and be more and realistically optimistic?

Session Length: 90-minutes of facilitated conversation

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Efficacy: The Best Predictor We Have of Human Performance

Date: March 3rd, 2021 from 6:30-8:00pm/est

Topics include:

  • What is efficacy? Self-efficacy? Collective efficacy? 
  • What are the benefits of increased efficacy?
  • How does efficacy differ from growth mindset, self-esteem, and self-concept?
  • How does efficacy impact wellbeing?
  • How do we increase our beliefs about our capabilities in given contexts?
  • What thwarts our self-beliefs in given contexts?

Session Length: 90-minutes of facilitated conversation

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Resilience: Growing the Capacity to Recover from Difficulties

Date: March 17th, 2021 from 6:30-8:00pm/est

Topics include:

  • What is resilience? 
  • Emotional, motivational, profession-related, and social resilience 
  • How does resilience impact wellbeing?
  • What diminishes our ability to bounce back?
  • What are the practices of resilient people?
  • How can we thrive in chaos and tough times?

Session Length: 90-minutes of facilitated conversation

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Trainer: Kristin Anderson

Kristin Anderson is an educator, researcher, founder and CEO of The Brilliance Project. Through her research and consultancy over her 20-plus-year career, Kristin has helped thousands of educators, leaders and aspiring world-changers transform their potential and unleash their personal power through the lens of education.

Kristin’s early career was spent working with students from marginalized and disadvantaged backgrounds, often outcast from mainstream school systems. This formative experience exposed the duality of education in both its capacity to fortify and lift the human spirit, as well as isolating the oppositional factors that actively disable it. These insights invoke the redemptive themes of her current day work, such as building trust, hope, and belief through personal efficacy, and a specialized focus on adult learning that embraces the lifecycle of the whole educator.

Kristin has worked within instructional and leadership roles across a diverse range of K-12 settings, and in parallel has completed advanced degrees from Sterling College, the University of Denver, and the University of Colorado. As a lifelong learner, she is currently earning her doctoral degree from Vanderbilt University in Educational Leadership and Organizational Change.

In recent years, Kristin has collaborated with global leaders to design, implement, and evaluate professional learning frameworks, leading large scale development initiatives for sustainable impact through education. Kristin’s approach is anchored in her understanding of behavioral and decision science, balanced with her practical and humanizing implementation of research in real-world settings. She has delivered keynotes, workshops and extensive professional learning on various topics in teaching, learning, and leadership across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa.

Kristin is the author of Data Teams Success Stories Volume 1, Real Time Decisions, and Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design. She currently resides in Thousand Oaks, California with her family.

 

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