Wellbeing for Educators: Recharge & Inspire

Teaching is emotionally demanding work, and the people who look after everyone else are usually the last to look after themselves. This course is built around that problem.

Over six days you will mix classroom theory with real-life wellness practice: two yoga sessions, meditation and breathing techniques, a healthy cooking workshop, journaling and a mindful sunset walk, alongside sessions on stress and burnout prevention. Two full mornings are spent inside Mallorcan schools — CC Sant Salvador in Artà and Cooperativa d’Ensenyament Es Lledoner in Felanitx — attending lessons and interviewing the teachers and students there.

Sessions run in the afternoons on workshop days and in the mornings on school-visit days, so there is time left to see the island.

You leave with a written wellbeing action plan for your own school — not just a good week.

Highlights

What you will take home

• Understand the role of mental health, resilience and wellbeing in education.
• Develop practical, daily strategies to reduce stress and prevent burnout.
• Learn simple mindfulness and journaling techniques to support yourself and your students.
• Explore the active role of nutrition, movement and nature in overall wellbeing.
• Build a customised wellbeing action plan to implement at your home school.

Who it is for

Teachers, school leaders and support staff who want to look after their own wellbeing and build a calmer, more mindful school environment. No previous experience needed.

Day by day

1. Day 1

   Welcome & sharing experiences

   • 15:00 — Welcome to the course. Participants introduce themselves and their schools (bring a short presentation on your school and your experience with wellbeing, personal and professional)
   • 16:00 — Icebreaker activities, course objectives, and sharing experiences with Erasmus+ projects: successes and challenges
   • Discussion: how has wellbeing — or the lack of it — affected our personal and professional lives?
   • 17:30 — Wellbeing for teachers: theoretical background and first practical tips. Introduction to journaling

2. Day 2

   Yoga, burnout prevention & healthy cooking

   • 15:00 — Yoga session: practical and theoretical workshop on bringing yoga into teachers’ and students’ everyday lives
   • 16:30 — Strategies for avoiding stress and burnout
   • Debate: teacher burnout — what are the signs and how can we prevent it?
   • 18:00 — Healthy cooking workshop, followed by journaling

3. Day 3

   School visit (1) — CC Sant Salvador, Artà

   • 09:00–13:30 — Visit to CC Sant Salvador in Artà: meeting with the headteacher and staff, attending lessons, interviews with teachers and students
   • 20:00 — Mindful walk and sunset watching

4. Day 4

   Mindfulness, breathing & your action plan

   • 15:00 — Yoga session: practical and theoretical workshop
   • 16:30 — Mindfulness and different types of meditation techniques
   • Breathing techniques to manage stress and anxiety
   • 18:00 — Workshop: which wellbeing techniques could I bring to my school, and could I use them with my students? Start of your Wellbeing Action Plan. Journaling

5. Day 5

   School visit (2) — Cooperativa d'Ensenyament Es Lledoner, Felanitx

   • 09:00–13:30 — Visit to Cooperativa d’Ensenyament Es Lledoner in Felanitx: meeting with the headteacher and staff, attending lessons, interviews with teachers and students
   • 15:00–19:00 — Visit to Portocolom and the surrounding area

6. Day 6

   Action plans, reflection & closure

   • 09:00 — Workshop: finishing your Wellbeing Action Plan
   • 11:30 — Participants present their wellbeing plans, followed by discussion and final reflection
   • 12:30 — Certificate ceremony
   • Afternoon: optional field trip to Palma de Mallorca

The programme is indicative: organisers may make minor adjustments, and participants are informed in advance of any significant change.