Teaching Alive: Embodied Approaches to Teacher Well-being and Burnout Prevention by Eucharia Donnery
June 21 @ 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Abstract
This interactive workshop explores teacher welfare through embodied, drama-based pedagogy. Rather than treating well-being as simply โstress management,โ the session positions wellness as relational, physical, emotional, and performative: how teachers inhabit classrooms, relationships, expectations, and themselves.
Participants will actively engage in short performative activities, reflective movement, pair interaction, tableau work, and collaborative meaning-making. The workshop is designed to be energizing, gentle, and *practical* while also creating space for honest reflection about exhaustion, care, boundaries, and sustainability in education.
Presenter
Eucharia Donnery has lived and worked in Japan since 1998 and is currently an associate professor in the Faculty of International Liberal Arts (FILA), Soka University. Whilst working fulltime in Japan, she received her PhD from the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies, National University Cork, Ireland in 2013, specializing in the use of process drama for social justice issue projects in the Japanese university EFL classroom. She incorporates drama-based pedagogies into her teaching pedagogy in combination with ethical AI to enable learners move towards self-empowerment, autonomy, and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in SLA.
Event
The event will be held at Keio University, Hiyoshi, Raiosha Building 2F (Map Below)
It is free for JALT members or first-time non-JALT members and ยฅ2,000 for others.
