Are your students ready for their internship, practicum, or first post-college job? We certainly hope so, but we know students in many of our disciplines will enter high-stress, unpredictable work environments and/or may be working with vulnerable populations. Those who choose a career in criminal justice, social work, counseling, teaching, and a host of other professions often encounter traumatic situations – even as early as in their internships and practicums.

In this two-part virtual workshop, you will learn how to intentionally teach students self-care strategies. You’ll also learn how doing so can better prepare your students for the intensity of their future work and may contribute to workforce stability in fields with high attrition. Dr. Sarah Fischer of Marymount University will spend the first hour (part one) laying a foundation that helps us understand how self-care is an important skill to incorporate in our curricula, introducing you to five self-care strategies, and demonstrating how you can teach those strategies to your students. In the second hour (part two), you’ll learn additional self-care strategies and engage in discipline-specific conversations about preparing students for the workplace settings they will enter.

This will be a highly interactive workshop that requires full participation including having your cameras turned on and trying various self-care strategies during the workshop.