Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education by Lemon, Narelle;

Short description:

In this edited collection written by those working in higher education for those working in higher education, authors navigate how they find meaning in academia as they create a place for self-care and wellbeing.

Long description:

The workplace has significant influence over our sense of wellbeing. It is a place where many of us spend significant amounts of our time, where we find meaning, and often form a sense of identity. Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education explores the notion of finding meaning across academia as a key part of self-care and wellbeing.

In this edited collection, the authors navigate how they find meaning in their work in academia by sharing their own approaches to self-care and wellbeing. In the chapters, visual narratives intersect with lived experience and proactive strategies that reveal the stories, dilemmas, and tensions of those working in higher education. This book illuminates how academics and higher education professionals engage in constant reconstruction of their identity and work practices, placing self-care at the centre of the work they do, as well as revealing new ways of working to disrupt the current climate of dismissing self-care and wellbeing.

Designed to inspire, support, and provoke the reader as they navigate a career in higher education, this book will be of great interest to professionals and researchers specifically interested in studies in higher education, wellbeing, and/or identity.

Table of Contents:

1. Self-care is worthy of our attention: Using our self-interest for good in higher education Nurturing self: Self-care is worthy of our attention 2. 2019: A Year in Self-Care 3. Juggling the Triad: Caring for Yourself with a Block-mode Approach To Research, Teaching, and Service 4. The rewriting on the walls: An autoethnographic journey into wellbeing in neoliberal academia 5. Being at One with Myself: Embracing the Teacher Identity 6. Pendulation: Awakening to Rest, Supporting, nurturing, and encourage others 7. How a More Than Human Family Lives the Phd Journey 8. An Appreciative Circling Approach to Promoting Doctoral Wellbeing and Growth, 9. Finding my centre: integrating contemplative practices, my children, and higher education into a balanced life 10. Exploring cultural identity through coffee: steps towards self-care Facilitating institutional change and forming a community of scholars who promote wellbeing 11. Bushwacking a Path Forward: Contemplative Pedagogy for Wellbeing In Higher Education 12. Preventing ‘Millennial Burnout’ using Huffington’s Third Metric in Academia 13. Moving from survival mode to wellbeing in academia 14. Stepping into a shared vulnerability: Creating and promoting a space for self-care and wellbeing in higher education.