Introduction to Reboot’s 3 brains neuro-metaphor and the window of tolerance

Understanding of integrated and dis-integrated brain states and (eu and dis) stress, and impact of stress on physical and emotional health and wellbeing, performance and relationships

Identifying external events, internal states (perception, attitude and thinking) and daily habits that contribute to stress levels and those that help reduce stress

Identifying the challenges (stressors) specific to the work context and role as an educator (especially those in remote, rural or trauma-impacted communities)

Stress constructs: emotional labour and burnout, compassion fatigue, burnout, vicarious and primary trauma, workplace intensity

Understanding of the emotional labour in education and application of practical strategies to reduce emotional strain and burnout

Awareness of the conditions that underpin optimal performance, wellbeing and happy relationships

Define self-regulation and the impact of this skill on wellbeing, happiness, health and professional performance

Awareness of the relaxation response and how to initiate it

Using hourly self-regulation to reduce the accumulative impact of stress

Introduce the 3 key steps in the self-regulation process and Reboot’s 5 Faces

Introduce evidence-based stress management practices

Understand and be able to self-regulate using top-down (cognitive) and bottom-up self-regulation strategies

Plan to reduce daily regulatory drift and engage in post-work transition

Heart Rate Variability and its importance to physical and emotional recovery

Define resilience and its impact on wellbeing, workplace performance and satisfaction

Awareness of the attitudes, skills and practices necessary for resilient outcomes

Understanding that resilience is dynamic, can be grown, influenced by context and colleagues Introduce Reboot’s resilience Equation and the elements composing individual and collective resilience

Exploration of protective and risk factors impacting resilience in current daily habits and individual self-assessment and plan to boost protective factors

Addressing specific contextual challenges: remote or regional workplaces, transgenerational trauma-impacted communities, social and geographic isolation

Identifying your resilience protective and risk factors and tips to create new habits

Define the 3 key ways of coping: proactive problem solving, silver-linings reframing and avoidance/denial

Explore the short and long-term impact of different problem-solving approaches

Address fear of change, victimhood, toxic positivity, cyclic thinking, sticking thinking (unhealthy thinking and self-talk processes)

Explore the impact of agency and victim orientation toward problems

Introduction to the Positive Change Highway as a simple problem-solving sequence that can be used to generate a solutions orientation and gain a sense of control over existing problems

Explore the elements within the problem-solving process