Burnout is Solvable

Support your Mental Wellness

Rediscover your Sense of Engagement

Empower your Life

We are doing the best we can.

And we need training to handle stress we never imagined.

Burnout is a Complex Problem.

 

Managing our stress response

We carry our stress with us nearly 24/7. We have been taught that stress is toxic and we must avoid stressors to reduce stress. Unfortunately, most of us haven’t had the opportunity to learn how to utilize our natural stress response and stress cycle to manage the stress we can’t easily avoid.

HAERT explains our physiological stress response and the methods for using it effectively, including self-awareness and self-management of our emotions, thoughts and behaviors. HAERT offers practical, evidence-based skills and steps to manage and take advantage of stress.

Emotional overwhelm

When we are stressed, our emotions we experience can get the better of us. We do our best with the skills we pick up throughout our lives and sometimes it’s just not enough. Not enough of us have explicitly learned the strategies and techniques for managing our emotions and our vulnerability to strong emotions in more effective ways.

The HAERT Program helps us understand the factors—especially the ones we can control—that affect our emotions. HAERT teaches the skills we need to stop feeling overwhelmed and avoiding our uncomfortable feelings. HAERT coaches us to embrace and learn from our emotions.

Mindset for stress

Our thoughts have a remarkably strong impact on our stress levels and experience of burnout. If we believe stress is toxic, it will be toxic and will take it’s toll on our bodies. AND we can learn to use stress to our benefit—a booster that we can leverage. Research shows that adjusting our mindset around stress massively impacts the physiological effects and our relationship with stress.

The HAERT Program systematically and explicitly teaches the science behind the different stress mindsets and how to take advantage of them. HAERT changes our culture around stress.

  • Between technology challenges, low student engagement, and the risk of catching COVID-19 as more schools return to the classroom, teachers are struggling.

    Insider.com, Teachers are hitting a wall more than a year into the pandemic. Apr 12, 2021

  • Self-medicating to cope with stress: Teachers report higher rates than a national sample of lifetime alcohol, amphetamine, and tranquilizer use.

    Journal of Drug Education

  • It is extremely important for all of us, but especially educators, to be really self-aware of how you're feeling during this time. Because burnout can be the precursor for a lot of other mental health conditions for like anxiety and depression.

    Kristy Ritvalsky, a senior educational training and consulting specialist at Rutgers University

  • 41.3% of teachers leave the profession in their first five years.

    Perda, D. 2013. Transitions into and out of teaching. A longitudinal analysis of early career teacher turnover. University of Pennsylvania.

  • More so than low pay or health concerns, stress was the main reason for teachers leaving their jobs.

    A RAND Corporation survey of nearly 1,000 former school teachers

Not easy. And definitely doable.

Remember the first time you wrote an essay? Did you do it without instructions? Did you know what you were doing? Was it hard to figure out what to put in it, where to put what, what actually made it a good essay?

For many, writing well can seem like a mystery until we break it down with common language and skills for how to compose the parts and put it all together.

Practice makes the whole thing smoother. Less awkward. Almost a habit.

Explicit guidelines take the mystery away and make writing seem like a skill anyone can learn.

Maybe it’s still a challenge. But possible and worth the effort.

The most important things in life are not easy AND we can make them easier with help.

Many people acquire various life enhancement skills in a tacit or subconscious way. Because the skills are not learned explicitly and may not be used consciously, people often struggle to transfer these skills to different situations and regularly forget the skills when the context changes. Especially when life gets harder.

HAERT makes life enhancement skills explicit, provides a common language, teaches the components, the why, the what, and the how. HAERT also shows how these skills are the antidote to burnout and stress.

HAERT’s easy-to-follow “do these things in these situations” guidelines take the mystery and overwhelm out of stress management. We teach it in baby steps for ease of adoption.

Live coaching opportunities give you a chance to share specific challenges and receive focused guidance.

 

How can HAERT improve our professional and personal life?

Participants learn skills for:

  • Understanding and taking advantage of our stress response

  • Coping with and managing distressing emotions and situations

  • Empathizing without taking on the distress of others

  • Recognizing and triaging the urge to perfectionize

  • Deciding where and how to use time and energy effectively

  • Radically accepting what we cannot control

  • Taking steps to support and strengthen resilience

  • Seeking the silver lining in change and uncertainty

  • Understanding how to use the information our emotions provide

  • Learning skills for more effective interactions with others

  • Modelling effective behaviors

Take a tour of the HAERT Program.

“The mental health and well-being of teachers can have a really important impact on the mental health and well-being of the children who they’re spending most of their days with.”

— Jennifer Greif Green, education professor at Boston University