This workshop is designed to give the busy and overwhelmed educator tools to support their sustainable well-being through practices of mindfulness and self-compassion. Often, we get trapped in critical and perfectionist thinking. Through experiential practices and exercises, participants will gain a felt experience of mindfulness and compassion for themselves to be used in and out of the classroom.

Lisa Baylis has been sharing wellness strategies for the last 20 years. A natural born connector with an innate ability to make people feel valued and heard, she is a teacher, a counsellor, a facilitator, and a mother. Lisa is a published author of Self-Compassion for Educators as well as, the creator of the AWE Method- Awakening the Wellbeing for Educators- which merges self-care, mindfulness, and self-compassion.

Lisa has a master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education. She has taught internationally and locally. Much of her vast teaching experience was gained in classrooms across British Columbia- from Fort St. John to the Comox Valley. Currently, she is a high school counsellor in the Greater Victoria School District.