When teaching pushes your buttons

When Teaching Pushes Your Buttons: Schemas, Stress and Healthier Coping

This workshop by Samuel Hilgefort (FPN) brings together teaching staff from across UM to reflect on recurring stressors in our educational practice. In this interactive workshop, we use ideas from Schema Therapy to explore what happens when teaching ‘pushes our buttons’. Together, we will unpack common stressors, look at how our schemas and coping styles may show up in teaching and professional development work, and explore concrete schema-informed strategies for healthier coping as university teachers.

Workshop schedule

• Brief sharing of real examples of problems teachers face at FPN (teaching stressors / tricky situations),
• Introduction to Schema Therapy concepts: schemas, coping styles, and modes, and how they show up in teaching,
• Small-group discussions of challenging teaching situations from different faculties, using the schema lens,
• Exploration of interventions and healthy coping strategies within the schema framework (what teachers can practically do differently),
• Plenary debrief / wrap-up: sharing insights, take-home strategies, and space for questions.

This activity may count towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) if relevant to your situation.

Accessibility
At EDLAB, we strive to make our activities as accessible as possible and do our best to make accommodations when possible. You will have the opportunity to indicate any accessibility requirements after registration.

Note about the costs
EDLAB is currently offering all professional development activities free of charge. Please note however that we have paid to develop and offer this session together with the trainers, so if you sign up but cannot attend, we would greatly appreciate it if you could give us at least 5 days’ notice so that we can advertise your spot to others who may be interested. Cancellation without at least 5 days’ notice or failure to show up may result in your department being charged the full cost price.

EDLAB reserves the right to postpone this event should a minimum of 6 participants not be reached.

Activity full or can’t make this date? Then sign up for the waiting list and we’ll let you know as soon as this event is scheduled again.