COURSE: “PRIORITIZING YOU: SELF-CARE FOR RESILIENT EDUCATORS”

Are you ready to beat burnout, prioritize your own well-being, and bring balance back to your teaching life?

Prioritizing You: Self-Care for Resilient Educators is a transformative, hands-on 5-day program designed exclusively for teachers and educational staff who need to step back, recharge, and build sustainable emotional resilience. Set in the relaxing and inspiring city of Lisbon, this course blends practical wellness training with enriching cultural experiences. It’s time to invest in yourself so you can return to your students with a renewed mind, a healthy body, and a lasting passion for education.

 

Duration: 5 days (25 hours)

 

Target:

• teachers working with all types of learners in both formal and non- formal context
• staff in educational institutions
• trainers

 

Objectives:

• Identify the signs of stress and burnout and implement proactive, research-based self-care strategies.
• Practice and lead mindfulness exercises (such as breathing techniques, grounding, and sensory awareness) tailored for both educators and students.
• Cultivate emotional regulation and resilience to manage challenging classroom environments and daily educational pressures.
• Design a personalized Well-being Action Plan to sustain healthy habits and personal self-care beyond the training.
• Network and collaborate with international peers, creating a supportive community focused on mental health in education.

 

Learning Outcomes:

 

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

 

• Recognise and identify common signs, symptoms and contributing factors of stress and burnout in educational settings, identifying when additional professional support may be needed.
• Demonstrate and facilitate basic mindfulness exercises, including breathing techniques, grounding and sensory awareness, adapting them to the needs of educators and learners.
• Apply evidence-informed self-care and stress-management strategies to strengthen emotional regulation, resilience and well-being when facing challenging classroom situations and everyday professional pressures.
• Design and implement a personalised Well-being Action Plan, incorporating realistic self-care routines, healthy habits, stress-management techniques and strategies to maintain well-being beyond the training.
• Integrate practical mindfulness and well-being activities into educational practice to support a more balanced, supportive and emotionally aware learning environment.
• Collaborate and exchange good practices with international peers, sharing experiences, exploring approaches to mental health and well-being in education, and building professional connections to support continued learning and mutual support.

 

Course details:

 

Course Fee: €400 per participant (5 training days × €80/day)

 

Includes:

• Course preparation and delivery by qualified trainers.
• Five days of structured training, including workshops, practical activities and group discussions
• Training materials and educational resources

 

• Administrative and organisational costs
• Certificate of participation
• Europass Mobility
• Pre-course coordination and participant support.

 

Not included: Travel, accommodation, meals and local transportation. These expenses are the responsibility of the participants or their sending organisations.

 

Keywords

 

Well-being in Education, Mental Health, Stress Management, Burnout Prevention, Mindfulness, Self-care, Emotional Regulation, Resilience, Adult education, Teacher well being, Work life balance

 

Programme:

 

Day 1 – Is Stress Already Taking Over? 

 

09:00 – 10:30 Level 1: Presentation of training institutions, trainers and participants

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15 Introduction to the programme, warmers and icebreakers

12:15 – 12:30 Coffee break

12:30 – 14:00 Level 2: Mapping our triggers – Presentation of current challenges and coping mechanisms participants already use

14:00 Free afternoon

 

Day 2 – Becoming Aware of My Inner Space 

 

09:00 – 10:30 Level 3: Introduction to Mindfulness

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15 Micro-practices for the classroom – Breathing exercises and grounding techniques

12:15 – 12:30 Coffee break

12:30 – 14:00 Level 4:Emotional awareness and regulation tools

14:00 – 18:00 Free afternoon

18:00 – 19:00 Tour Guide around Lisbon’s best-kept secrets

19:00 – 21:00 Dinner in a Typical Restaurant

 

Day 3 – Learning How to Teach with Joy 

 

09:00 – 10:30 Level 5: The Pillars of Self-Care

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15 Level 6: Practicing self-compassion and overcoming “educator guilt”

12:15 – 12:30 Coffee break

12:30 – 14:00 Creative expression and movement

14:00 Free afternoon

 

Day 4 – How Can Tech Be a Support and Not a Stressor?

 

09:00 – 10:30 Level 7: Digital well-being – Establishing boundaries with technology and emails

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15 Level 8: Mindful communication with students, parents, and colleagues

12:15 – 12:30 Coffee break

12:30 – 14:00 Practical tasks

14:00 Free afternoon

 

Dia 5 – I’m ready to transform Education!

 

09:00 – 10:30 Level 9: Knowledge into action

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15 Level 10: It all comes together

12:15 – 12:30 Coffee break

12:30 – 14:00 Closing and evaluation of the course

14:00 Free afternoon