Review the paths and what you will gain from each. Select where you would like to go first and click on the corresponding path name. When you have visited all topics, you will be ready to go on to the Learning Activities for Trail 3.

Causes and Indicators of Stress

Identify primary causes and indicators of stress in your daily life. Understanding the difference between "chronic" and "acute" stress.

Impacts of Stress, Especially As It Applies to Teacher Burnout

Recognize the impacts of stress in the different aspects of your life. Recognize causes and symptoms of teacher burnout. Explore strategies for preventing and recovering from teacher burnout.

Resilience as Tool to Manage Stress and Change

Recognizing the importance of resilience as a tool to manage stress and change. Making a commitment to accept and manage change as a natural process. Learning about characteristics and qualities of resilient people. Taking practical steps to build and strengthen your own resilience.

Self-care and Self-healing Tasks for Each Dimension of Your Life

Physical Self-Care

Gaining a better understanding of the primary tasks for self-care and self-healing. Selecting physical strategies for self-care which will work for you. Understanding areas in which you can add stress for better balance. Creating a Physical Self-care Plan that can help you build resilience through physical self-care.

Mental Self-Care

Gaining a better understanding of the primary tasks for self-care and self-healing. Selecting cognitive strategies for self-care which will work for you.. Understanding areas in which you can add stress for better balance. Creating a Mental Self-care Plan that can help you build resilience through intellectual self-care.

Emotional/Social Self-Care

Gaining a better understanding of the primary tasks for self-care and self-healing. Selecting strategies for emotional self-care which will work for you. Understanding areas in which you can add stress for better balance. Creating an Emotional/Social Self-care Plan that can help you build emotional/social resilience. Selecting spiritual strategies for self-care which will work for you.

Spiritual Self-Care

Gaining a better understanding of the primary tasks for self-care and self-healing. Selecting ways in which you can build and strengthen resilience though spiritual self-care and renewal.

Other Strategies for Managing Stress and Change

Building a better understanding of the six major qualities or traits shared by strong and healthy families. Learning how to work with change as a natural process in your life. Understanding and the twelve simple "wellness principles."