The Network for Educational Development (NED) provides educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
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Deep Work in a Burnout Society: Session One
Facilitated by
Ruthanne Soohee Kim, Ph.D.
St. Cloud State University
2020 Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence Educator of the Year
Deep Work in a Burnout Society:
Manifesting Contemplative Focus
Join three active learning sessions to explore undoing unproductive behaviors and mindsets, integrating lessons with a focus on anti-racism and dismantling oppression. Participants will collaboratively generate new approaches for well-being, contemplative immersion, and achieving what truly matters. Don’t miss this transformative journey.
Guided by Tricia Hersey’s Rest is Resistance manifesto, these three-part working sessions navigate the tensions of “being productive” in a distracted world while feeling “burnt out” by sedimented pressures.
Session One
Session one explores Hersey’s antiracist and profound statements to center rest and refuse work that exploits and fails to recognize systems that undermine the health and wellbeing of people we disable or minoritize. We unpack Hersey’s claim that academia particularly exploits people of color and communities formerly enslaved. To practice what Hersey advocates, participants will take time to rest in this session. We will use rest to explore the embodied reflections of Hersey’s manifesto and how this can alter the horizon of what we imagine for ourselves and our students who are caught in the same academic grind we perpetuate.
RSVP Required
Use the RSVP tool below to register. In addition to Minnesota State faculty and staff, Concurrent Enrollment instructors are also welcome to join.
After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your calendar.
Accommodations: If you require accommodations (live captioning, etc.) to participate in this event, please send an email to the person at the bottom of this page.
Questions?
Contact facilitator Ruthanne Soohee Kim, Ph.D.
