Here’s some ideas on how you can recharge and boost your overall wellbeing…
Less doing, more being…
Be realistic about your capacity during the festive season and share responsibilities amongst family and friends, so that you can prioritise activities that will introduce calmness, increase your wellbeing, and prepare you for the new year ahead, allowing you to reflect, recharge and reset.
Use the end of year as a time for reflection on past experiences, lessons learned and the things you are grateful for.
Use your break to do things you truly enjoy and that help you relax.
Really disconnect from work…
We need regular breaks to allow our bodies and mind to recover after stressful periods. Taking time to reload our energy levels is necessary to improve your productivity and can be critical to prevent burn-out.
Let your students, team and other important stakeholders know in advance about your planned break, when you will be back, and what to do in urgent situations.
Support others to have a break…
As a leader, encourage your team to take leave, and role model the type of self-care behaviour you want to see in others, and support behaviours that enable restful time off for team members.
Seasonal Section…
Cooking is a form of nurturing, and can help encourage a sense of meaning, and purpose which have been linked to things like increased happiness and greater positive wellbeing. Why not put it to the test with this unbelievably easy mince pies recipe.
We’ve included the below signposts for wellbeing and mental health support that may be of interest to you:
