Cultivating Teacher Resilience by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811559631
Publisher: Springer Singapore

10.3 BRiTE Mind: Supporting the BRiTE Programme in Cultivating Mindful Resilience

The potential for mindfulness to support resilience in teachers is a growing area of academic and professional interest. The core principles of mindfulness, such as being present oriented, with openness, acceptance, clarity and flexibility, may contribute to adaptive appraisals and action regulation that support coping for everyday resilience (Skinners and Beer 2016). The online BRiTE programme provides a framework for understanding and developing resilience in teachers, centred around key concepts in BRiTE: Building resilience, Relationships, Wellbeing, Taking initiative, and Emotions. An overview of how mindfulness may be linked to these concepts is described later.

There are several key aims and intentions in the development of BRiTE Mind. First, it aims to provide an introductory overview of mindfulness related concepts, to support developing resilience as explored through the BRiTE programme. Second, given the availability of mindfulness programmes and tools, the purpose of BRiTE Mind was not to replicate or create another mindfulness training programme, but rather to build and extend knowledge about mindfulness, clarifying common understandings and misconceptions that have been perpetuated in the media (e.g. Van Dam et al. 2018). The intention here was to strengthen a balanced understanding of mindfulness as a concept and a practice rather than setting expectations that it is a quick fix, panacea, designed to encourage individual coping with systemic problems (see Correia and Strehlow 2018; Walsh 2016). With this in mind, a third key aim was to support knowledge translation, with opportunities to scaffold application of mindfulness to personal and professional situations.

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