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Lots of us who work holding space for others need to pay attention to our own health and well-being so we don’t do too much, and feel burnt out.

Last year the ICMTA changed part of its mission statement to read “To support and challenge our members to develop and deliver their teaching… in sustainable ways.” I wonder, what would that look like for you?

Recently a group of us have been meeting to talk about our environmental impact as teachers, and what we could do to reduce it. (We’ll be sharing some practical suggestions in a future newsletter...)

And we realised that there’s a connection between how we sustain and nourish ourselves and our work, and how we all relate to the planet around us. Our personal ecology is both a mirror and a part of the global ecology.

So what might it mean to become more sustainable as a teacher? Both for ourselves and for the Earth that we live on?
(We don’t have definitive answers... But this is what emerged from our conversations...)

The enquiry is useful and good in itself. The answers emerge from our roots and our values, from our sense of integrity.

The questions we might ask ourselves are:

• What do I need to live?
• How do I keep myself in balance?
• And what is my role in the wider community?