Teaching with a chronic illness means belonging to a profession that demands always being “on” while navigating a body that needs constant rest, stillness, and care. This facilitated reflective workshop uses prompted free writing and open discussion to examine that tension honestly and to build practical strategies for teaching with greater agency and resilience. It welcomes educators living this experience and those who want to support them.
Teaching with a chronic illness means belonging to a profession that demands always being “on” while navigating a body that needs constant rest, stillness, and care. That contradiction is real, it is ongoing, and it rarely gets the honest conversation it deserves. In this one-hour facilitated reflective workshop, participants will reflect deeply on their own experience of teaching with a chronic illness, examine that tension genuinely, and build practical strategies for teaching with greater agency and resilience. Through prompted free writing and open discussion, participants will close by reflecting together on what genuine allyship and community can look like. This session is facilitated by an educator with twenty years of personal experience navigating this exact terrain and is open to educators at every level living this reality, as well as to those who want to support them.
