Spring 2025 Faculty Day Breakout Session: Bringing Peace & Ease During Changing Times

A presentation at Heritage University in January 2025 by Jacob Campbell and is tagged with Breakout Session, Faculty Presentation, Heritage University

Grass pathways intersect in a park. Text reads: 'Bringing Peace & Ease During Changing Times.' Spring 2025 Faculty Day. Ruby Aguilar, Jessica Vega, Jacob Campbell.

Slide features an agenda and learning objectives. Agenda: 'Impact of stress and self-care,' 'Developing a self-care plan,' 'Practice with self-care activity,' 'Ideas for self-care implementation.' Learning Objectives: Participants will identify impacts, develop peer connections, apply self-care planning and positive imagery, and gain mindfulness ideas for classrooms.

Slide with diagram of human body illustrating stress effects. Text highlights stress impacts: 'negatively impacts physical health,' 'reduces wellbeing,' 'affects mental health' causing 'irritability, anxiety, depression, sleep problems.' Source: American Institute of Stress.

A black spiral diagram illustrates the impact of self-care on well-being versus negative outcomes. The slide highlights domains of self-care: awareness, balance, flexibility, physical health, social support, spirituality.

Black oval labeled 'Whole Group Discussion' with four surrounding questions: causes of stress, self-care actions, barriers to managing stress, and stress's impact on students, set against a white background.

Text 'DEVELOPING A SELF-CARE PLAN' is centered on a gradient background transitioning from blue to pink, suggesting a theme of balance and wellness.

A person in a plaid shirt holds a golf club over their shoulder. Text reads, 'Think about a place... The more specific and connected to our senses, the more engaging the space.' Additional text: 'Pleasant Imagery Happy Gilmore Style.'

Slide with title 'IMPLEMENTING MINDFULNESS' in bold, lists: 'Guided meditations and visualizations, Breathing exercises, Physical activity, Mental techniques, Focusing on senses.' Highlighted by a yellow line at the top.

A presentation slide shows text reading 'SYSTEM-WIDE SELF-CARE: In what ways can self-care be embedded into Heritage as an organization? Consider the example of Jolivette et al. (2019).' Alongside, a Heritage University sign stands on a grassy area with trees in the background.

The slide features three reference entries from academic and online sources related to stress and self-care, listed under the bold heading 'REFERENCE.'

Dr. Jacob Campbell

10 slides

Description

Self-care can improve our overall well-being and our ability to be effective at our jobs. As our nation is going through changing times, it is important to come up with effective strategies to bring peace into our lives. Practicing self-care and/or mindfulness is a powerful way to take care of ourselves so that we can effectively teach and support our students.

This session is facilitated as a breakout session for the Spring 2025 Faculty Professional Day at Heritage (Reaffirming the Heritage University Mission: Navigating Together through Changing Times). It was facilitated by:

Jacob Campbell, Ph.D. LICSW (Associate Professor)
Ruby Aguilar, LICSW (BSW Director, Social Work Co-Chair)
Jessica Vega (Practicum Director)

We are providing a couple of handouts during this session. They include:

Breathing Exercise Cards

The agenda for this breakout session is as follows:

Impact of stress and self-care
Developing a self-care plan
Practice with self-care activity
Ideas for self-care implementation

During this session, the breakout session participants will:

identify the impacts stress and self-care can have
develop connections with their peers and their experiences
apply the development of a self-care plan
apply the skill of positive imagery
gain ideas for using mindfulness and self-care in the classroom