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SSD20: Who Said We Have to Be Cruel to Be Kind?: Strategies for Taking Care of Ourselves, Avoiding Burnout, and Being Productive in Fall 2020
Hours: 1
While there were beautiful and startlingly hopeful moments to be found in Spring 2020: COVID-19 Edition, it was--to put it succinctly--a difficult time. A less succinct description would probably need to include words such as: tough, unprecedented, demoralizing, burnout, and (Zoom) fatigue. For better or worse, Fall 2020 is proving to be the mountain we will need to climb after having already run a marathon. Fortunately, it is possible to triumphantly climb this mountain. But it will take more than fortitude or sheer strength; it will require us to discover the power of our limitations and to reimagine--individually and systemically--what it means to be successful.
Please join our keynote speaker, Katherine A. Troyer, PhD as she offers concrete strategies for treating ourselves with kindness as we attempt to be productive (and avoid burnout) in Fall 2020. Whether you are hoping to maintain a clearer work/life balance even while at home or are looking for ways to not feel so "broken" by the challenges we currently face, together we will think about the positive changes that will emerge if we begin to show ourselves the empathy we so often bestow on others.
Keynote Speaker:
Katherine A. Troyer, PhD is the Assistant Director of the Collaborative for Learning and Teaching at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. Her office bookshelves reveal a seemingly strange combination of interests as scholarship on the horror genre sits next to books on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). But for her, there is a connecting thread: how spoken and unspoken anxieties--whether in a horror film or in the classroom--shape our thoughts and ideas. Her most recent horror scholarship looks at the carnivalesque in Stephen King's IT. And her current SoTL project involves building a model of transparency to embrace, rather than ignore, underlying tensions--such as procrastination and burnout--at the heart of learning and teaching. She hosts a regular podcast on horror called Such a Nightmare as well as a podcast called Playing in the Sandbox: Conversation in Pedagogy, in which she explores the practice of play as a method for developing curiosity and agency in our students. She holds a PhD in Humanities from the University of Louisville. Please feel free to email her at ktroyer@trinity.edu.
If any accommodations are needed for this workshop, please email facdev@austincc.edu as soon as possible but at least five days before the workshop. Please include the name of the workshop. You will be contacted by a member of our staff to discuss your specific needs. Thank you. |
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