Reducing Stress for Teachers — recognise earlier, exhale sooner, reset more often.
A practical, evidence-grounded 90-minute session for educators carrying too much. By the end you'll have one tool you can use tomorrow — and a one-page plan for the week.
Presented by True North · info@truenorth-zone.com
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What we'll do together.
90 minutes. Six movements. You leave with a plan and an anchor word for the week.
1Your stress snapshot — a 60-second check-in to see where you actually are right now.
2A day in the life — a short film that names what most of us are quietly carrying.
3Reality vs noise — what's actually yours to carry, and what isn't.
4The RESET method — five steps to interrupt a stress spiral.
5Guided reset — choose one word to anchor you for the week.
6Personal wellbeing plan — one page, one next step, yours to keep.
Stress is not a character flaw. It's a signal.
When the body sounds the alarm, it's pointing at something — a load that's too heavy, a pace that's too fast, a boundary that's been crossed. The job isn't to silence the alarm. It's to listen to it earlier, and respond more wisely.
"Burnout is what happens when you keep ignoring the smaller signals until your body sends a bigger one."
RESET
Five steps to interrupt a stress spiral.
You don't need to solve everything at once. You need to interrupt the pattern and choose the next right action.
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Notice the stress signal early.
Stress sends signals before it takes over — in your body, emotions, thoughts and behaviour. The earlier you notice, the more options you have.
●Body — jaw, shoulders, chest, gut, fatigue
●Emotion — irritation, overwhelm, resentment
●Thought — "I can't cope, everything's urgent"
●Behaviour — snapping, rushing, withdrawing
Your body often tells the truth before your mouth does.
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Calm the body before you respond.
You cannot think clearly while your body is still in alarm mode. A 60-second reset interrupts the cycle.
1Both feet on the floor. Shoulders drop. Jaw release.
2Breathe in for 4. Hold briefly.
3Breathe out for 6. Repeat three times.
4Ask: what is needed now?
The pause is not wasted time. It stops stress from choosing your response.
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Sort the load before it crushes you.
Overwhelm grows when every task is treated as equally urgent. Not everything screaming for attention is genuinely urgent.
●Do today — what must genuinely be done now
●Schedule — matters, but not immediately
●Simplify — what am I overcomplicating?
●Release — what is not mine, or not essential
Caring does not mean carrying everything.
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Protect your capacity.
Boundaries protect time, energy, emotional capacity and recovery. They are not the opposite of care — they protect your ability to keep caring.
●Time — working hours and recovery
●Task — workload and role clarity
●Emotional — care without absorbing every crisis
●Recovery — sleep, food, movement, quiet
A boundary is not a wall. It's a gate.
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One next step. Not the whole plan.
Stress wants you to solve everything at once. Wisdom asks you to choose the next right action.
1What is the next right action?
2What is one thing I can control?
3What can wait?
4What support do I need?
One next step is how you take back movement when stress has made you feel stuck.
One word to carry you this week.
When pressure rises, you don't always need a plan. You need a touchstone. Choose a word like calm, patience, boundaries, rest, kind, enough — and let it shape one small choice a day.
"your word here"
Write it where you'll see it. Say it before the hard moments. Let it choose one small action.
Your one-page wellbeing plan.
Print, fill in, stick somewhere you'll see it. Revisit at the end of the week.
My biggest stressor right now
One signal I'll watch for
My anchor word for this week
"_______________"
Recognise earlier. Exhale sooner. Reset more often.
The next step is not to change your whole life overnight. It's to choose one tool and use it tomorrow. Come back to the companion app whenever you need it — your answers, your word and your plan are still there.
True North · info@truenorth-zone.com
truenorth-zone.com