Episode Details

Martín Blank is a visionary educator, breathwork instructor, and educational consultant specializing in whole-school wellbeing and teacher and staff retention. He's worked with over 15,000 students, and 14,000 educators over the last 10 years in hundreds of schools across districts nationally. He uses positive psychology, stress management, and resilience training to help leaders fight staff burnout and turnover and create systems that enable school and district thriving.

Show Highlights

• Novice teachers outperform the "best" veteran teachers with the "best" students using these breathing techniques.

• The question to ask students to pull their power and peace of mind.

• The connection between emotions and breathing bleeds into a student's abilities and academics.

• Tools to sit with frustration and be able to focus despite distraction to be a lot less reactive.

• 8 sessions of a "Resilience Journey for Leaders" to create retention positive school climates and wellbeing for everyone.

• Behavior is NOT where you should start in PD

• Whole school wellbeing training we need in order to increase our power as individuals and avoid "above the neck bias."

"One is this idea of drowning. Because that's what's happening. People are drowning. They're drowning in demands, and they don't have a life jacket. They don't have resources. Whether those resources are time, money or staff. Resources are limited, demands are high. That's a recipe for stress. If somebody's drowning, is that the moment to teach 'em how to swim? Is that the moment you say, 'Hey, let me teach you Backstrokes, you'll be fine.' No, man, they're drowning. They're in fight or flight. They're like, if you don't physically take them out of the water, then they might die. Trying to do self-care in an environment of toxicity, an environment of high levels of stress, high levels of demands, low levels of resources is akin to that. And it's a little bit tone deaf."

-Martin Blank

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