The Resilient Educator elearning course (2nd Edition)

Format: An introductory module plus 8 x 45-minute modules, delivered online for flexible, self-paced learning.

Created by and featuring:

Professor Michael E. Bernard — a world-renowned international educational psychologist, author, and expert in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Katherine Perry — an experienced educator and workshop facilitator holding a Master of Education (Guidance and Counselling) with a focus on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. With a background in journalism and Literacy Education, and experience across State, Independent and International school settings, Katherine brings a warm, relational, and mindfulness-informed approach to facilitation, drawing on her own yoga and meditation practice to support wellbeing and deep learning.

What You'll Learn — Eight Modules:

1. Workplace Stress in Schools — Identify common sources and signs of workplace stress and understand its impact on your wellbeing and professional effectiveness.
2. Resilience — The Big Picture — Explore recovery, perspective and positive action, and learn to use the ABC model to reframe your thinking and support more resilient responses.
3. Emotional Regulation and Coping Skills — Recognise your early warning signs, practise strategies for calming anger and anxiety, and build a practical coping toolkit.
4. The Strength of Self-Acceptance — Understand the difference between self-acceptance and self-esteem, challenge self-downing thoughts, and develop more self-accepting ways of responding when things don't go to plan.
5. Relationships, Conflict and Getting Along — Explore how relationships can buffer or intensify workplace stress and develop strategies for difficult interactions.
6. Workload, Time and Sustainable Organisation — Identify workload patterns that contribute to stress, and develop approaches to prioritising, pacing and planning your work.
7. Lifestyle Management: Mindfulness, Relaxation and Recovery — Explore nutrition, exercise, mindfulness and relaxation, and create a sustainable Lifestyle Management Plan.
8. Personal Resilience Action Plan — Identify your key stress triggers, select resilient thinking and coping strategies, and make one realistic commitment to practise over the following weeks.

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