Upcoming Dates

  • June 21-25

Course Description

This course takes a holistic approach to teacher well-being, recognizing it as essential for both personal growth and creating healthy, mindful educational environments. Over five highly experiential, participatory, and reflective sessions, participants will combine theoretical foundations with hands-on practices like mindfulness, yoga, body awareness, emotional regulation, and self-care. Embodied practice plays a central role, dedicating at least one hour daily—and up to 2.5 hours in the final session—on the mat for meditation, movement, and relaxation. A key focus is the practical transfer of these tools into classrooms to improve focus, emotional regulation, and relationship quality. Ultimately, the course concludes with the creation of a personal sustainable well-being plan and a specific classroom application, framing well-being not just as content to learn, but as a practice to live and share.

Goals

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

    1. Understand teacher well-being from a holistic perspective, identifying its main dimensions and the factors that influence it, such as stress, workload, emotional fatigue, and professional burnout.
    2. Experience and use different well-being tools, including mindfulness, meditation, yoga, mindful breathing, pranayama, body awareness, relaxation, and different emotional regulation strategies.
    3. Develop self-knowledge and self-awareness by recognizing personal needs, emotions, strengths, resources, values, sources of energy, and factors that contribute to depletion.
    4. Develop self-care and sustainable well-being strategies by integrating small practices and habits that can be maintained over time in both personal and professional life.
    5. Explore the relationship between body, mind, breathing, and well-being, recognizing bodily signals associated with stress, tension, and exhaustion and learning basic strategies to support regulation.
    6. Reflect on the values, purpose, and meaning of teaching practice, fostering a more mindful and meaningful relationship with the profession.
    7. Transfer learning to the educational context by designing practices that can promote well-being, attention, emotional regulation, positive relationships, and a healthy classroom climate.
    8. Design and implement a personal well-being practice adapted to the needs and characteristics of one’s own professional context.

Price

400 euros

Includes all course materials and 2 cultural activities

Pre-registration Form

Please complete the registration form below to initiate the admission process for this academic program

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Admission information

A minimum course enrollment of 10 students must be met for each course to be offered

    • Language : English
    • Language level required: B2 or above
    • Duration : 5 days (25 hours)

Tentative Schedule

Day 1:

TEACHER WELL-BEING: CONCEPTS AND DIMENSIONS

Contents

  • The concept of holistic well-being and its main dimensions.
  • Teacher well-being and its impact on teaching and learning.
  • Stress, burnout, emotional fatigue, and workload.
  • Risk factors and protective factors related to teacher well-being.
  • Well-being models: the World Health Organization (WHO) and Martin Seligman’s PERMA model.
  • Self-knowledge: personal strengths, needs, and resources.
  • Identifying sources of energy and factors that contribute to depletion.
  • Personal commitment to well-being and professional self-care.

Activities and Practices

  • Reflection and self-knowledge exercises.
  • Personal identification of factors that promote or hinder teacher well-being.
  • Introduction to embodied practice and breath awareness.
  • Gentle yoga practice.

Day 2:

MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS

Contents

  • Foundations and development of meditation.
  • The concept of mindfulness and mindful awareness.
  • Differences and relationships between meditation and mindfulness.
  • Meditation, stress, and emotional regulation.
  • Attention, presence, and well-being in teaching practice.
  • Attention as a trainable capacity.
  • Compassion and kindness toward oneself and others.
  • Applying mindfulness and meditation in personal and educational contexts.

 

Activities and Practices

  • Different meditation and mindfulness practices aimed at promoting calm and mental regulation.
  • Yoga Nidra as a way to deep relaxation, body conciousness and attention training.
  • Compassion and loving-kindness meditation.
  • Movement meditation. A mindful movement practice inspired by different contemplative approaches, including movement work associated with Osho.
  • Experiential reflection on the work carried out in class (participant feedback).
  • Exploration of possible applications of these practices in educational contexts.

Day 3:

YOGA, BREATHING, AND BODY AWARENESS

Contents

  • Connection between body, mind, and breathing. The basic and fundamental meaning of yoga.
  • Body awareness and recognition of the physical signs of tension and exhaustion: managing stressful situations.
  • Yoga as a tool for self-care and regulation.
  • The meaning and practice of the sound OM.
  • Applying yoga and breathing practices to the teaching day and the classroom.

Activities and Practices

  • Introduction to the meaning of yoga and its practical dimension.
  • Mindful breathing practices and basic pranayama techniques.
  • Identifying bodily manifestations of stress in the context of teaching and learning.
  • Embodied and breathing-based regulation strategies.
  • A yoga sequence linked to chakra work.
  • Guided meditation and relaxation.
  • Possible use of music and Tibetan singing bowls as complementary elements for relaxation and sensory exploration, depending on the characteristics and needs of the group.

Day 4:

MEANING, CONNECTION, AND PURPOSE

Contents

  • Holistic well-being and self-knowledge through the symbolism of the seven chakras.
  • Personal and professional values.
  • Purpose, meaning, and vocation in teaching.
  • The relationship between purpose, motivation, and professional well-being.
  • Human connection, authenticity, empathy, and compassion.
  • Healthy interpersonal relationships in educational contexts.
  • Sustainable well-being and self-care.
  • Designing a realistic and sustainable personal well-being plan.

 

Activities and Practices

  • Yoga practice focused on the body-mind connection and self-knowledge through the chakras.
  • Work on teaching with purpose and presence.
  • Individual reflection exercises on teaching purpose.
  • Savasana practice (corpse posture as a way of final relaxation).
  • Designing a personal well-being plan: goals, needs, resources, practices, and maintenance strategies.
  • Gratitude practice.
  • Interpersonal connection exercises in pairs and small groups.
  • Reflection circle on connection, gratitude, purpose, and well-being.

Day 5:

INTEGRATION, NATURE, AND APPLICATION IN THE CLASSROOM

Contents

  • Integration of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, breathing, and emotional regulation.
  • Nature, mindful awareness, and sensory awareness.
  • Movement, breathing, and presence
  • Values, meaning and fulfillment

Activities and Practices

  • Participants create a realistic implementation plan for their own teaching context, based on well-being.
  • Each student will device his/her own practice for the rest of the class.
  • Outdoor mindfulness: Mindful sensory walking and awareness.
  • Partner yoga and breath connection (trust, empathy, regulation)
  • Bringing well-being to the classroom
  • Nidra
  • Closing circle: Reflections and commitment

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