ORANGE Regional - The Resilient Educator: Wellbeing Leads to Mindful Teaching (2-Part Series)

This series empowers educators to take intentional steps toward protecting and enhancing their own wellbeing. Each session focuses on self-awareness, everyday strategies for sustaining energy and motivation, and embedding wellbeing practices into professional life.

Session 1 (In-person):

Knowing Yourself – The Heart of Wellbeing & Recharging and Rebalancing 

Content Focus: 

  • Understanding the link between educator identity and wellbeing 
  • Recognising signs of stress, fatigue, and burnout 
  • Exploring character strengths as a foundation for self-care 
  • Understanding emotional intelligence and the energy drain of relational work 
  • Identifying protective practices and everyday emotional intelligence micro-habits 
  • Differentiating between self-care and self-repair

 

Learning outcomes:

  • Educators will identify key elements of their professional identity and reflect on how this influences their sense of purpose, agency, and personal wellbeing in their work with children and families. 
  • Educators will recognise early signs of stress, fatigue, and burnout, and explore strategies for self-awareness and boundary-setting to support personal sustainability. 
  • Educators will explore their individual character strengths and begin developing a personalised self-care approach grounded in their values and strengths-based reflection. 
  • Educators will develop a clearer understanding of emotional effort in relational work and how it contributes to energy depletion and compassion fatigue. 
  • Educators will identify and practice protective wellbeing habits, including everyday micro-habits that strengthen emotional intelligence and restore balance during the workday. 
  • Educators will differentiate between self-care and self-repair, enabling them to make proactive, rather than reactive, choices about wellbeing supports. 

 

Session 2 (online):

Embedding Wellbeing into Your Practice

Content Focus: 

  • Making wellbeing visible in your room, routines, and reflections 
  • Modelling wellbeing for children and colleagues 
  • Planning for consistency, not perfection 

 

Learning outcomes: 

  • Educators will identify strategies to make wellbeing visible through intentional design of environments, routines, and documentation practices. 
  • Educators will reflect on their role as wellbeing role models, learning how to embed and model healthy emotional regulation, gratitude, and relational care in everyday interactions. 
  • Educators will create a personal wellbeing action plan focused on small, sustainable practices to integrate wellbeing consistently into their professional life and learning community. 

 

 

Recommended Audience: Early Childhood and OSHC Teachers and Educators 

    • $250

    • Date

      Thu 7 May – Thu 14 May
      • Session 1: In-person
        7 May 2026
        6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
      • Session 2: Online
        14 May 2026
        6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

    • Location

      Orange

    • Presented by

      • Rod Soper
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About the presenters

  • Rod-Soper
    Rod Soper

    Rod Soper is deeply committed to increasing the wellbeing of every child. Rod is a veteran educator, having served as a teacher and principal for more than thirty-five years. Rod is also a writer, coach and speaker. He is also the co-founder of Thinkers.inq, a long day preschool and Personhood360, an online platform serving educators to capture their children's wellbeing through stories to create exceptional futures.