Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Critically analyse the theories and current research pertaining to the well-being, wholeness and personal growth of professionals, applying a Christian perspective.

• Investigate and critically analyse challenges, risks and opportunities in the education profession as they relate to their emotional, physical mental and spiritual well-being and growth.

• Explore and analyse your specific personal vulnerabilities, risks and challenges as a professional from a Christian perspective.

• Design, implement and justify preventative and proactive strategies for your personal self care and continual growth with a view to ongoing endurance in your professional educational environment.

Unit Description

This subject provides a distinctive learning experience around the issues of life balance and is intentionally focused on personal development and endurance in professional educational environments. This includes exploring the spiritual, mental and emotional health of the Christian professional in their educational context and provides the necessary skills to put in place preventative strategies for self-care.

Topics

The following areas will be covered:

Professional growth

• Managing and clarifying role expectations
• Critically reflecting on ethical and social trends in society and culture
• Managing the risks of stress and burnout
• Self-awareness and personality

Personal formation

• Life balance, spiritual formation and self-care
• Dealing with internal issues: anger, anxiety, assertiveness, depression, low self-esteem, real and false guilt, addictions, sexuality
• Strategies for developing endurance and resilience
• Accountability and spiritual supervision
• Theologies of success and failure

Relational – skills, theory, practice

• Healthy and safe relationships
• Common dysfunctions
• Conflict resolution

Within these – theory and theology

Teaching Strategies

This unit is delivered as an intensive, possibly split into two sessions. The class will meet with the ability to communicate to your peers and lecturer electronically before and after classes. All learning will happen through your readings and in a face-to-face setting.

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Unit offerings

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.