1. Creative Self-Care for Advisors and Educators
5th Annual UC Advising Conference
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Dominique Brown, Khahlia Sanders, Alicia Boards

2. Today’s Plan Introductions Learning Outcomes Overview
Let’s Get Creative!
Closing thoughts

3. Learning Outcomes
Participants will understand importance of self-care for educators/advisors.
Participants will be able to demonstrate creative self-care practices
Participants will identify “self-care accountability partners”

4. What is Self-Care?
Increasing your own well-being through self-care behaviors
What does it mean to you?
Do you feel as if self-care as an advisor is important? If so, why?

5. Why Do We Need Self-Care?
Academic Advisors Role: Ender, Winston, and Miller (1984, p. 19) defined developmental academic advising as “a systematic process based on a close student-advisor relationship intended to aid students in achieving educational, career, and personal goals through the utilization of the full range of institutional and community resources.”
Fostering self care and creativity plays a vital role in developing as a professional to nurture mutually beneficial advising relationships.
It is important to professional stability and growth
This job can be very demanding and overwhelming

6. Effectiveness not Efficiency
Unnecessary Creating
Energy
Most valuable resource
Improve areas of new growth
Creating a space for immersion of new ideas
Stimuli
Nourish
Challenge the world in new ways
Purposeful mental development
Effectiveness not Efficiency
Develop skills
Try new things
Take risks in low stake environments
watch?v=7hWRva_sPeE 8:10-11:49

7. Activity Self-Care Sound Track & Sacred Boxes (Khahlia)
Storytelling | Visual Journal (Dominique)

8. Questions? ?