The Resilient Educator: Wellbeing Leads to Mindful Teaching (3-part series)

Session 1

Knowing Yourself – The Heart of Wellbeing

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

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.

Session 2

Recharging and Rebalancing

Content Focus:

• 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 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 3

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