Back to School: Re-entry and Resilience for Educators and School Personnel
The past few months have been a blur; this pandemic time has been challenging, frustrating, interesting,
strange and probably very exhausting. While you are doing less commuting and perhaps doing less
laundry, you are likely doing more dishes and spending a crazy amount of time in front of a screen:
Zooming, teaching and creating for your students, and communicating with parents.
Over this period of time, a lot of attention has been focused upon students and their families, and rightly
so. But what about teachers and their needs? Teachers are so patient, intuitive, resourceful, and
nurturing with their students….and while teachers often teach about self-care and the importance of
maintaining good mental health, they are often not so good at implementing it for themselves.
This conversation for teachers will look at:
What is going on with your students and their families,
Discuss the impact of Covid-19 on our lives and the world,
Survey mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression,
Celebrate teachers as heroes during this pandemic,
Acknowledge how even heroes can struggle; and
Highlight the importance of self-care
Learn more about how to put yourself in a better position to enjoy the remainder of this year, the summer,
and begin the next school year with the energy and good frame of mind you deserve.
Jon Mattleman received his B.A. from Clark University in 1978, and his MS in Counseling from the
University of Hartford in 1981. Jon’s workshops and presentations are geared to give participants tools
they can implement immediately, strategies that work with children and youth, and approaches which
have proven to be critical to building healthy relationships. Jon frequently consults with schools, parent
groups, mental health organizations, and in workplace settings regarding the issues of anxiety, stress,
depression, suicide, parenting, and the emotional consequences of technology. Jon is a certified trainer in
QPR Suicide Prevention and has worked with professionals in schools, with state organizations such as
the Massachusetts Probation Department, as well as with hundreds of parents regarding self-harm and
suicide prevention. Jon is best known for his talk “The Secret Life of a Massachusetts Teen and Tweens”
and has presented this to thousands of parents in all over the east coast. Jon has appeared on numerous
radio and television shows lending his expertise on anxiety, depression, suicide, teens, and parenting.
Read more about Jon on his website at www.Jonmattleman.com or follow Jon on Twitter at
https://twitter.com/jonmattleman or contact Jon by email at jonmattleman@gmail.com
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