Learn more about the services offered through LivingS.L.O.W.
Services
Services Offered Through Living S.L.O.W™
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These interactive and engaging sessions focus on providing staff with self-care tips and strategies that are easy to implement throughout their busy day. Opportunities to practice and develop their own coping skills are included. All offerings are customized to fit the need.
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Receive personal support on ways to establish, improve, or enhance self-care practices.
Self Care
Why?
46% of teachers report high daily stress during the school year. That’s tied with nurses for the highest rate among all occupational groups. [1]
Research estimates that between 23 percent and 42 percent of teachers stop teaching within their first five years [2]
The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future estimates that public school teacher turnover costs more than $7.3 billion per year. [3]
Burnout is common among health care workers. Characteristics of the health care environment… combined with personal predisposing factors and the emotional intensity of clinical work put clinicians at high risk. Estimates for the prevalence of burnout ranged from 10%–70% among nurses and 30%–50% among physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. [4]
What?
Living S.L.O.W.™ supports the self-care and wellbeing of educators and caretaking professionals by providing brief and sustainable approaches that can be easily embedded into their busy day enhancing their positive impact of those with whom they work.
Setting aside time for self-care is important but may not seem readily accessible. Living S.L.O.W. offers strategies to help “in the moment” when self-care is most needed. These shifts can be done anywhere, take only a few moments, and can be used throughout the day. Ultimately, the hope is that everyone can learn to go S.L.O.W.©, to realize what you need, when you need it and how to effectively (& efficiently) take care of yourself, a valuable commodity.
Who?
My name is Lauren Kazee, founder of Living S.L.O.W.. Throughout my career as a licensed social worker, my efforts have focused on mental health and wellness for youth, inside and outside the school setting. While working to address the mental health needs of students, it became evident that often the needs of the staff in the buildings were being neglected or ignored. In some cases, teachers were completely frustrated and discouraged (maybe a few were even depressed). This motivated me to shift my work to include a focus on the well-being of educators, thus prompting Living S.L.O.W.™.