Feeling Stuck or Burnt Out?

You are doing the best you can.

And you can do better with help.

Burnout is a complex problem.

  • Physical Burnout

    When we’re burnt out, we experience more physical distress, are more vulnerable to strong emotions, feel like we’re spinning our wheels and are generally less effective in achieving any of our goals.

  • Emotional Overwhelm

    The emotions we experience with stress can get the better of us. We do the best we can with the skills we pick up throughout our lives but sometimes it’s not enough.

    Few of us have explicitly learned the strategies and techniques for managing our emotions in effective ways.

    The HAERT Program teaches us how to handle the things we really cannot control that affect our emotions. It also teaches the skills we need to stop feeling overwhelmed and to take control where we can.

    HAERT helps us to embrace and learn from our emotions.

  • Mindset for Stress

    Our thoughts have a remarkably strong impact on stress levels and our experience of burnout.

    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.

  • 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

  • Stress, more so than low pay or health concerns, is the main reason for teachers leaving their jobs.

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

Solving burnout is possible.

Do you brush your teeth? It’s a habit for most of us. We understand the value and know the effort spent on oral hygiene is a smart use of our time. Tooth brushing is simple and requires daily practice

Solving burnout is the same way. Learning the specific skills and then practicing them - just like you brush your teeth.

The opposite of burnout is resilience.

Practice makes the whole thing smoother - even a habit.

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

The most important things in life are not complicated AND they do require practice.

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.

 

What Skills help us during Stressful times?

  • Validating how we are feeling

  • Empathizing without taking on the distress of others

  • Positively reinforcing even small efforts in the helpful direction

  • Minimizing 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

  • Modelling effective behaviors

Sometimes we need support and a refresher.

Even the most skilled individuals can benefit from a master class in self awareness and self management.

When the world ups the ante, we need to revisit what we are doing and make our efforts more intentional and more effective.

And we need help.

Learn how the HAERT Program can support you.

“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