What if teaching could stop feeling like it was stealing your life?

Burnout should not be your “reward” for being a great teacher!


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You want to love your job – but it’s draining the life out of you!

Are you spending more time at school than you are at home?

- Is your car the last car in the parking lot?

- You feel buried in marking.

- Overwhelmed with policies.

- Languishing in lesson planning.

- Consumed by all the kids who need help.

- Excited by all the possibilities for making a difference, but overwhelmed by the enormity of everyone’s needs, the deep social issues and the multitude of problems there are to deal with?

- Exhausted by the expectations to be not just a teacher… but also a Mother, Nurse, Therapist, Guide, Tutor, Curriculum instructor, Sports Coach, Friend, Librarian, Event Planner, Parenting mentor, Advocate, Resource Finder , Rule minder , Food provider, Cleaner , Decorator, Career coach , Protector, Surrogate parent, Motivator, Community organizer, Ministry Liaison, Teacher Mentor, Curriculum Developer, Arts director, Social planner, Social worker…

No wonder you are exhausted!


- You are put upon.

- You don’t feel respected or understood.

- You feel like you’re trying to glue together a broken system.

- You are upset too often.

- Feel guilty too frequently.

- Exhausted from late nights and not enough sleep.

Here’s what makes it even worse:

You are passionate and dedicated! You are great at what you do! Your kids love you!

You’ve been doing everything right. Superlatively well, in fact!

Then why does everything feel wrong?

Is burnout the reward for being a great teacher?!?

You know what the problem is?


What if I told you that everything you ever learned about how to be a teacher set you up to burnout?

Read that again. Yes – it’s true!
 
See, you might have tried lots of things to ease the feelings of stress. Things like:

- Meditation
- Yoga
- New hobbies
- Exercise
- More nutritious food
- Listening to music
- Time in nature
- Sports
 
…And while all those things helped some and made you feel a bit better…

You still end up back in the same place

As a successful teacher, you are finding yourself stressed out over school and students struggling with a huge workload – all the while your life, your family, and your social life gets put on the back burner. And it doesn’t feel good. It feels like teaching is stealing your life from you.

And to make it worse – you feel like you’re the only one struggling!

You’re not.

Teacher burnout has been documented since 1865!

So what’s going on?

Burnout isn’t personal (even though it feels that way!)


Burnout is a by-product of a dysfunctional system.

Teachers are expected to make up for the inadequacies of the underfunded school system, to make up for bad parenting, to make up for cut social programs – and no one questions this.

If a psychologist had a client with the level of work, stress, responsibility, and commitment expected of teachers – they’d tell them they need to slow down and re-think what they’re doing.

In teaching, it’s encouraged and rewarded! You might even get the teacher of the year award!

In the education field, burnout is masquerading as a virtue.

Like a code of honour. It’s not.

It harms teachers. It harms families. It harms students. It harms schools.

It’s a code of stress

​​​​​​​And you don’t need to abide by it anymore.


“Joanna’s workshops were engaging and thoughtful, but perhaps most importantly, practical for both the new and experienced classroom teachers. She brings a wealth of research and insight into the field of teacher’s mental and emotional health, and her suggested strategies are useful and necessary! During our series of 3 workshops, teachers shared experiences, nodded their heads in agreement, and many of us had “light bulb” moments of realization in how to continue to teach meaningfully throughout our career, but in way that helps sustain our energy and enthusiasm without depleting our own reserves of well-being.”

- Pamela Perera,  Status of Women Committee, OECTA, Dufferin Peel Separate School Board

You see I was where you are...

I loved my teaching job (Grade 7&8! Woohoo – I love that age group!) and was stressed to the max. I did meditation for 4 years to try to relax – but I ended up burning out and going on stress leave – right in the middle of a meditation retreat!!

I recovered – mostly by taking 2 years to study healing modalities, energy therapies, mindset work, belief engineering.  Then I went back into teaching - and that’s when I saw it. With clarity. The beliefs, mindset, and ways of being of what's expected of teachers – were the same ones I’d just spent 2 years healing myself from.




I went to do my masters in education to research this further. And I discovered that, in fact, the culture of teaching is full of prior beliefs, mandates, and identities that create harm.


Was this some hidden knowledge – why was no one teaching this? So much suffering could be alleviated!

So I created a system to interrupt the toxic culture of burnout in teaching – so no teachers have to suffer the pain of stress and burnout anymore.

“Joanna’s Stress and Burnout Program was an incredibly grounding and empowering experience. Through it, I learned a variety of practical strategies to unpack personal challenges and to build on personal and professional strengths. Joanna’s personal stories and wisdom grounded in experience was enlightening and instinctive. Thanks Joanna for an amazing experience.” - Yaya Yu

“After each session I was filled with positive energy. The program looks at the teacher as a whole person and cares for their spiritual, physical emotional and mental wellbeing. It provides excellent skills, strategies and tools for coping with stress and provides useful and honest information on situations that teachers will likely experience and how to handle them in a healthy way.” - Sophie W.

“Joanna Krop is an innovative educator and expert on teacher stress and burnout.   She has also done important work on Feminine Wellbeing. Joanna is an outstanding presenter and workshop leader in these areas. Her work touches the core issues that impact teacher stress and wellbeing.  It is not just information to digest, but a transformative process of re-framing teacher mindsets and professional growth.” - John (Jack) P Miller, Professor in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto, author of The Holistic Curriculum.


A teacher-centric system that is designed to:


- rethink everything you were told makes a good teacher

- replace overwhelm with security

- finally have time to serve your needs, instead of not having enough of it

- release the guilt so you stop feeling hounded by bad feelings

- protect your energy and time

- work without compassion fatigue

- reclaim your needs – even the ones you didn’t know you had

- break free from the stressful influences that sabotage your wellbeing

- release self-sacrifice and get unstuck from survival mode

You might be thinking – well that’s great Joanna, but how are you going to teach me to do all this – without getting overwhelmed and adding to my to-do list?

I’m so glad you asked!

The Teacher Wellness Code is the name of the system I created – it’s the teacher training you should’ve received in teacher’s college!

In fact, the very content of this course I’ve created for you was curated, developed and tested at education conferences throughout North America and when I was teaching pre-service teachers at the University of Toronto – workshops and classes always filled to capacity!

What is the Teacher Wellness Code?

It’s a 5 step system that guides you to banish burnout – once and for all.


The 5 steps help you to:

- Release the hold of the ideal teacher that drives burnout

- Make it easier to function in a broken system

- Care without burning out Break free from the past that holds you hostage to stress

- Connect to your real needs and get unstuck from survival mode

"This course was very useful for helping me be more mindful and balanced when I felt overwhelmed with stress and busyness. Joanna gave us really practical tools, and worksheets and created a safe and reflective space, and really helped me find ways to relieve my stress.” - Diana

My Invitation:

I want to invite you to my group program, Teacher Wellness Code Mentoring Circle.

I want you to experience the truth that you can be rid of burnout in teaching for yourself.

No one should be burning out – you’re too important to your students and to yourself to burnout!

Here’s what will turn your teaching life around:


Module 1: The Code of the Ideal Teacher
  • Decode the training that has set you up to burn-out so that you can break-free of stress
  • Challenge the story of doing and being everything and reclaim your professional agency
  • Unpack the 4 roles that create massive stress and get unstuck from the same old patterns
  • Set over 40 mindset-switches to clear the beliefs, thoughts, and actions that are sabotaging your time, energy and wellbeing
Module 2: The Code of the Front Line
  • Decode the system you teach in and never feel taken advantage of again
  • Challenge the story of serving the system, and reclaim your power
  • Learn to create teacher-centric planning strategies so your needs aren’t put on the back-burner
  • Discover how to manage a toxic work environment and stop dreading Monday mornings
  • Create Principles of Practice that determine healthy boundaries for time and energy expenditure and make it easy to say no – even if saying no feels like the hardest thing to do
  • Use the magic of reciprocity get your class on your side to relieve stress
Module 3: The Code of Love
  • Decode the messages of toxic compassion – so you can care without feeling burdened
  • Challenge the story of self-denial and reclaim your needs to feel fulfilled
  • Learn how to release guilt and get that heavy feeling off your chest
  • Learn to create boundaries that protect you from compassion fatigue and create compassion for yourself
  • Use the same tool psychologists use when dealing with complex emotional situations – and protect your mental health and ability to do your job.
  • Discover why vicarious trauma affects you so deeply so you can to help yourself have a healthy distance
Module 4: The Code of Influence
  • Decode the past – and be free of well-meaning advice that doesn’t work
  • Challenge the story of your mentors and reclaim your own voice
  • Discover the 6 patterns that shaped your teaching so you can release that doesn’t serve you and make your teaching work for you
  • Unpack the messages of worthiness that drain your teacher energy and feel good about what you do and who you are
  • Break free from the educational mindset of lack that keeps you in a perpetual cycle of striving – and start to feel like you are able to get on top of your work and thrive
  • Understand how answering one question unravels they puzzle of stress and gives you a fresh start
Module 5: The Code of the Inner Teacher
  • Decode your core essence and return to the wisdom of your authentic self – where all healing happens
  • Challenge the story of sacrifice and reclaim self-love so that you are never put last again
  • Discover the 3 Rs that are the antidote to the productivity-focused energy that drives workplace stress
  • Tune into the intuitive guidance that supports you and never leave work crying again
  • Discover the unmet needs and motivations that secretly drive your teaching to be stuck in survival mode so that you can start living fully and thriving
  • Tap into hidden sources of power and seal off energy leakages to eliminate feeling exhausted
  • Tune into the soul qualities that help connect you to what matters so that you don’t have to feel like your life is being trampled by teaching.

“Joanna’s Stress and Burnout Program has been an invaluable experience and a much welcomed antidote to the stories of teacher burnout. It has provided me with practical tools to assert my needs as a person in a teaching environment. Joanna’s welcoming nature and willingness to share her journey set a tone of openness and acceptance for us to do the same.” - David Q

How is the program structured?

In this online course, I walk you through a transformative 5-step process that covers the full scope of recovering from Teacher Burnout. As well I offer you tools, resources, and tips that will support you on the entire journey. Course content never expires – you keep it for life.
 
Community Support is included: Each teacher who invests in this course will have access to the support of a secret, confidential Facebook group to connect with other teachers who are also on this healing journey – where I check in every single day. All who purchase the course also have access to live weekly Q & A calls.
 
Wait – but what about saving time and dealing with paperwork?

Don’t worry - I have you covered!

As a Bonus, everyone receives my mini-course: Taming the Teacher Time Dragon – to manifest, master and manage your time.  This tip & tool packed mini-training deals with the nitty-gritty tasks of teaching – the paperwork, marking, managing time – so you can easily create the time to enjoy your healing journey.

It includes:

- A 9-step system to find more time in your teaching day

- A Sorting strategy to deal with overwhelm

- Over 25 tips on making planning and marking easier.

- The Power of a Professional NO

- Time Traps to Avoid


You probably have some questions…and like any teacher should, I’m anticipating them!


“But, Joanna what if I don't have time to take a course?” I encourage everyone to make time it their day or week for themselves - whether you take the course or not - you need to be dedicating some time to your very own self. Even though the course is run live, you don't have to show up live. Every module will be online for you to access whenever it fits your day. If you can't make the coaching calls, you can submit your questions ahead of time and the coaching calls will also be recorded so you can listen at your convenience.

“But, Joanna, what if I get so stressed out it’s all just too much?” I get that that can happen – it’s part of the process of the journey to recover from burnout. I’ve created a pre-course module that guides you through meditations to bring calm and centering during stress. Every coaching call we have we’re going to start with a calming meditation – I’m here for you.

“But, Joanna what if this doesn't work for me?” Well - why wouldn't it work for you?! It's designed for teachers by a teacher who not only recovered from burnout but taught that very topic in Canada's top university to pre-service teachers. What you really might be saying is that you feel so overwhelmed that you don't think you'll be able to commit to the work of doing the course to get the transformation. The real question you're asking is: What if I don't finish the course and it's just a waste? This course will be taught over a period of weeks - one week per module and I'm going to be giving lots of support and encouragement to have you complete it - I care that you get results. You keep the course forever - you have access to it forever - so you can go back to it whenever you want - so nothing is wasted. But - If you can’t trust yourself to come online once a week and follow my instructions as I show you exactly how to eliminate stress from your teaching, it’s best if you don’t do this program. But if you’re ready to have a breakthrough in this area and this is calling to you, I welcome you – you belong here.


This program is for you if:

- You are a teacher who is ready to say goodbye to feeling burned out all the time and hating your job

- You are ready to be part of a community that understands and respects your needs as a person and as a teacher

- You feel committed to doing something for yourself because you want to love your life again and get off the teacher stress hamster wheel

- You’re ready to shed the things that keep you stuck in stress and are excited for a fresh start

Here’s what you get when you enrol today in the Teacher Wellness Code Virtual Mentoring Circle:

 
- Core Program: Teacher Wellness Code - 5 Module’s dripped over 5 weeks - VALUE: $997

- Weekly live group coaching calls - VALUE $347

- Access to a private, confidential Facebook group for support and accountability - VALUE $297

- BONUS #1:  Training: Taming the Teacher Time Dragon: Manifest, Master & Manage your Time - VALUE:  $197

- BONUS #2:  Pre-course content to get you in the right heart & mind space to do this work in a space of healing. I’ll teach you the Teacher Transformation Activation meditation to bring motivation and calm to your day, and the Daily Wellbeing Alignment Process to keep your self-care top-of-mind. - VALUE: $97

- BONUS #3: Celebration end-of-course Virtual Retreat – this is a surprise full of energy healing goodies that will wrap up our time together, integrate what we’ve learned and celebrate you and the work you’ve done! - VALUE: $97
 
TOTAL VALUE: $2032

Your Investment today:


I want to make it super easy for you to say yes to yourself!

$297 – for the entire package!

Yes – you read that correctly. As a founding member, you get a very special once-only offer!

I so want you to say goodbye to feeling unhappy in your job, say goodbye to losing out on your life to teaching – I’m so committed to making this happen for you – I’ve priced it to be a no-brainer to join!
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Registration closes Sept 24th at 11:59pm EST!
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PAY IN FULL:

$297 USD

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PAYMENT PLAN:

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P.S. You deserve to be rewarded for dedication to yourself! If you say yes to yourself and sign up within 24-hours of the cart opening you will receive a set of done-for-you “Difficult Conversations Scripts” of what to say in difficult situations with administrators, parents, and colleagues when your time and needs aren’t being respected – so you’ll never be at a loss for words again – and be able to maintain your wellbeing.
 
P.P.S.  I’m so sure that this program will help you banish your burnout I’m offering you a guarantee – if you are completing the work in the course and if in 30 days you have not had any improvement in your teaching stress – I will refund your investment.
 
P.P.P.S. Cart Closes Tuesday, September 24 at 11:59 PM EST.  Once the cart closes, enrollment will be closed for the Teacher Wellness Code Mentoring Circle until we launch again – and this is the only chance to be a founding member at this low investment. J
 
Looking forward to seeing you in the course!

“I have learned so much from this. These strategies and teachings will stay and grow with me throughout my teaching career. I will be forever grateful using these tools to deal with my stresses as a teacher. Thank you!”

- Dino R
2019 Teaching Wellbeing