Feeling overwhelmed? Looking for clarity, connection and revitalization? Instructors face many challenges that can lead to burnout or decreased well-being. And academia can perpetuate inequities across roles and labor. This workshop series is designed to invite reflection on these inequities and empower faculty with the knowledge to prevent (or manage) burnout and decreased well-being, while uplifting the importance of rest and clarity of roles. Join colleagues for thoughtful discussion and we’ll provide coffee, tea, and light snacks. You can attend individual sessions or all three, as your schedule allows.
Meeting Details
| Date | Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 28 | Defining Your Scope of Practice & Preserving Your Well-being | 11:00am – 12:15pm | Multicultural Center, Room 203 |
| Feb. 25 | Cultivating Vitality Through Intentional Rest | 11:00am – 12:15pm | Multicultural Center, Room 203 |
| March 25 | Reflect & Reimagine: Equity-Centered Well-being in Educational Spaces | 11:00am – 12:15pm | Anchor Room in the Welcome Center |
Session Details
Session #1 Defining Your Scope of Practice and Preserving Your Well-being
A scope of practice is a way to guide your work life toward greater balance, freedom, and clarity. A scope of practice focuses on two questions:
- 1) What am I qualified to do in this role?
- 2) What is my responsibility in this role?
Join us for this in-person workshop where you will be invited to explore your scope of practice as an educator. Reflect on ways to clarify boundaries so you can be better positioned to support students while preserving your own well-being.
Outcomes:
- Define your scope of practice as a educator with varying roles and responsibilities
- Clarify work boundaries that still support students and preserve your own well-being
- Articulate at least one positive change you intend to make that helps maintain your scope of practice
Session #2 Cultivating Vitality Through Intentional Rest
Are you feeling exhausted, more cynical, or less effective in your work? Burnout may be knocking at your door. Come learn about preventing (or managing) burnout by recognizing the signs, contrasting burnout with vitality-enhancing behaviors, and deepening your understanding of the importance of rest. Leave with a personalized plan for intentional rest and achieving greater well-being and vitality.
Outcomes:
- Identify at least two ways to prevent or address burnout and support vitality
- Articulate at least three types of rest that apply to your life situation
- Develop a tentative strategy for adding periods of rest within your life
Session #3 Reflect & Reimagine: Equity-Centered Well-being in Educational Spaces
How and why might we center well-being in our work, given the inequitable distributions of labor across race, gender, and status lines in academia? What are the implications of our own rest and labor as educators? This in-person workshop for all faculty invites reflection on these questions by discussing excerpts from Community as Rebellion (García Peña, 2022), Rest is Resistance (Hersey, 2022), and Unraveling Faculty Burnout (Pope-Ruark, 2022). Through these conversations, we aim to reimagine our educational spaces through an equity lens and with a well-being focus, to shift academic cultures so everyone can thrive.
Outcomes:
- Build collective knowledge about well-being and rest in academic spaces
- Reflect on our lived experiences and professional roles
- Collaborate to identify actions and mindsets that center equity and well-being
- Consider multiple institutional contexts, spaces, and scales to explore and enact equity-minded well-being
To Register…
Visit our registration page to submit your information to participate in this experience.
Questions
For questions about this opportunity, email ATL’s Faculty Development Specialist, Penny Edwards, at penny.edwards@uri.edu.