Symptoms of stress in teachers looks like..

What stress can look like for your teachers..

  1. Exhaustion: Both emotional and physical.

  2. Detachment: Teachers lacking enthusiasm and being cynical or pessimistic about their job, school or pupils.

  3. Declining Performance: Teachers who were previously great at their job may be performing below average.

  4. Presenteeism: They are there in body but not in spirit. They may even be physically unwell.

  5. Overwhelm: Tearfulness, high emotion, inability to focus or make decisions. Increased irritability which can affect colleague and student relationships.

  6. Conflict in the Workplace: Stressed people can have a short fuse which adds fuel to interpersonal conflicts, communication breakdowns, and a negative work culture, hindering effective collaboration.

  7. Safety Risks: Stress can impair decision making leading to more mistakes and accidents.

Stress also has a contagion effect which means it can spread to more staff and pupils.

Longer term stress can lead to lower performance of the school, higher staff turnover and higher absenteeism.

The more stressful the job, the more important it is to give your people the tools to be mentally resilient

We help teachers manage the stresses of work and life.

The pressures on teachers are immense. Supporting them with tools to help their mental resilience is essential.

However with work overload mental wellbeing can seem like another mandatory session to take up teachers limited time.

So at Practical Mental Fitness we offer a range of stress relief services to bring the locus of control back to the teachers themselves by giving them choice.

We are not beholden to one particular method and can even offer a mixture of tools within one session. 

These session can be run as one off or a series. We can even run regular groups in person or online to help teachers regularly practice self care.

78% of school teachers & 95% of head teachers are stressed.

— Teacher Wellbeing Index 2023

Stress Relief Services for Teachers

  • We know teachers are not going to regularly practice stress relief techniques if they don't enjoy Them.

    We also know teachers have very limited time to practice self care.

    So these sessions cover multiple stress techniques ensuring there is a greater chance participants will find one that works for them which they're happy to continue using.

    The techniques are chosen to be versatile, simple to use, effective and quick to practice.

    A session may include include:

    • Mindfulness

    • Meditation

    • Breathwork

    We can deliver a single workshop or a series in which different tools are taught in each session.

  • Knowing and doing are two different things.

    These groups enable participants to practice one or more stress relief techniques.

    Done on a regular basis they can help to establish self care as a routine and relieve stress regularly before it builds up and creates mental and phsical issues.

  • Sometimes someone needs a little more, individualised help.

    Perhaps they have been suffering with high levels of stress for a long time or there's been a change in life circumstances (parenthood, divorce, death, work) or they have been present at a traumatic event.

    It may be presenting as sleeping poorly, declining work performance, change it attitude, irritability or low mood.

    And it only takes one person in the team to be suffering to effect the stress levels of the whole team and their dynamic.

    Whatever the cause, if you have a team member who is suffering from a high level of stress or anxiety, one to one coaching can be a great way to help them become a happier, more productive member of staff again.