This resource provides a number of tips for parents / learning mentors to make the best of their and their learner's experience!This includes:How to design an effective learning spaceEstabilishing a routine or schedule and monopolizing on flexibilityTaking meaningful breaks and having funTake advantage of opportunities in your community and travelTake care of yourself too! 

Techniques begin at 3:10!

This video gives you three tools for deep breathing to help manage stress anywhere, and any time you need it.

Pursed Lip Breathing; Deep breathing; Alternating Nostril Breathing

This short video (4 mins) outlines the 6 signs of stress that you shouldn't ignore. It explains each one in detail and what it might look like.

"Self-care isn't selfish, it's essential. No-one's perfect. But so often we compare our insides to other people's outsides. This month we're encouraging everyone to be kinder to themselves (as well as others), especially when things go wrong. Self-care increases our resilience and helps us get more out of life. It also helps us accept others as they are too."

Often, we are not informed in school on how to navigate the world in regards to things like finances, accessing health care, dating, relationships, balancing work and play, partying and staying safe, managing day-to-day stress, and entering into the workforce. This course will provide an opportunity for students to discuss these topics with each other and the facilitator. Together, we will learn how to navigate the tricky and often overwhelming world of adulthood.

This course examines:
• Life Skill development for adulthood
• Basic understanding of personal finance
• Basic understanding of healthy relationship development
• Entering the workforce
• Enjoying recreational time safely
• Stress management

Session 1 – What Does Adulting Mean?
Session 2 – Money
Session 3 – Healthy Relationships
Session 4 – Taking Care of Yourself

*Sessions are offered live at set times. Visit the link to see the schedule.

This course is provided by H.O.P.E (Helping Others thru Peer Education)

Introduction to the Seven Core Patterns:RuminatingCatastrophizingDoomsday Language / Global ThinkingInner Isolation and DisconnectionIrritabilityOverwhelm!Self-Care vs. Self-Medication

This resource is an assessment and planning tool for assessing one's wellness in physical, psychological, emotions, relational, spiritual, and workplace/professional wellness.

Having a family member with a substance use problem can be very stressful and overwhelming. You play a key role in supporting your relative and in promoting their wellness and recovery. Performing this role may take a toll and have a significant impact on you as well. This self-directed online program is designed to empower you as you support your loved one.

This course will help you to recognize the stress and range of emotions you may be experiencing, and to understand the importance of addressing your own needs. The course will also explore strategies you can use to cope with the challenges of dealing with a relative with substance use problems, strategies for self-care and ways to empower yourself.

The course includes 6 modules:
1. Understanding Substance Use Problems and Addiction
2. Impact of Substance Use Problems on Families
3. Supporting Your Family Member's Recovery
4. Communicating Effectively with Your Relative and Setting Limits
5. Staying Safe and Managing Crises
6. Empowering Yourself Through Support and Self-Care

What Is It?

Practicing mindfulness can help relieve the stressors of school, work, and life. As an educator, you may not know where to start. How can you make time for self-care to protect your own mental health? How can you incorporate mindfulness exercises into meetings with colleagues and/or interactions with students?

In this guide you'll learn how to develop a personal mindfulness practice (complete with a sample breathing exercise!), and how to get started cultivating mindfulness skills in students or other adults. You'll walk away with simple ways to work mindfulness into your daily life. In the guide you will learn more about:
I. Benefits of Mindfulness for Educators
II. Practice a Mindful Breathing Exercise
III. Sample Mindfulness Exercises
IV. Tips for Facilitating Mindfulness Exercises

This site offers Learning Tools & SEL for Parents, Caregivers, & Families

What Is It?
A set of activities and lessons for families to use at home with children in grades PreK-6.

Provided by Sanford Harmony, these resources guide parents and caregivers through ways to help children practice key SEL skills such as empathy and critical thinking.

With the program, you can:
- Facilitate pre-planned lessons
- Enjoy Harmony activities as a family
- Build strong relationships at home.
- Access "Inspire" teaching tools.
- Practice self-care for all ages.

What Is It?

A downloadable packet of mindfulness activities and tools from Panorama Education, Open Circle, Breathe for Change, and other expert organizations.

The resources (like a "Self-Care Practice Guide" and a Spotify playlist for Mindful Practice) are perfect for developing your own mindfulness practice and/or modeling mindfulness to staff and students.

Includes great low-lift ideas for tuning up your physical health and mental health, so you can be of better service to students.

What's Inside This Resource Pack?
1. Self-Care Practice Guide (from Breathe For Change)
2. Calm Breathing Techniques for Students (from Open Circle)
3. Free Access to Inner Explorer's Audio-Guided Mindfulness Program
4. Spotify Playlist for Mindful Practice
5. Webinar Recording: Mindfulness Strategies for Adult and Student Wellness

Within the attached document, you will find several links to "personal development" resources crafted over the years by Leanne Hintz, Regional Teacher for the Sun West Distance Learning Centre.Maintaining her blog entitled, Our Life Well Lived - Leanne Hintz, as well as publishing two books in 2020, has been Leanne's "side gig" for the last number of years. As she has learned and grown as a mother and as a human being, she's shared her reflections and her journey within the pages of this blog!  

What Is It?

When the COVID-19 health crisis began, the Panorama team moved quickly to compile a list of informational resources, articles, and guides to support educators in practicing self-care and resiliency despite the circumstances.

The five core SEL skills —self-management, self-awareness, responsible decision-making, social awareness, and relationship skills—are more important than ever.

This is a collection of vetted resources on everything from managing anxiety to adapting to a distance learning environment. It is being updated as relevant information becomes available. Categories include:
- Adult Self-Care
- Resources for Educators and School Communities
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Live Webinars: Guided Mindfulness Practice for Adult and Student Wellness
- Resources for Families and Parents

How self-care products, including natural health products, cosmetics and non-prescription drugs, are regulated in Canada.

"A library full of free tips, videos, and more to help you get through the school year. Check it out!"

Mindful Practices to Awaken Your Well-Being and Grow Resilience.

As educators, we are constantly bombarded with stress and overwhelm. Even finding the time and space to pause can sometimes feel “one-more-thing.” On this website there is a compilation of mindful self-compassion meditations found in the book “Self-Compassion for Educators.”
Many of the practices are informal practices you can do any place and any time.

Life can be overwhelming, anxiety invoking, and stressful. Sometimes we all need a healthy escape. This Virtual Calming Room was inspired by School Counselors and School Social Workers across the United States to help students locate tools and strategies to positively manage their emotions.

"Hitting a wall? Explore self-care strategies to battle teacher burnout, and rediscover your inner superhero to bring excitement and creativity back into your classroom."

Join Learning for Justice for a webinar on the importance of educators practicing self-care. Featuring middle school literacy coach Geneviéve DeBose and school social worker Shoshana Brown, this webinar will help educators understand the science and psychology of self-care, including how educator self-care affects students. You will learn a variety of practices and tools, and you will be able to identify practices that work best for you so that you can thrive and really show up every day in your school community.