EPISODE #42 | Alycia Spencer – Fostering Well-being in Schools: Gratitude, Resilience & Self-Care

In this episode with Alycia we dive into: her journey as an educator and her passion for creating health and well-being resources for teachers and students. Alycia shares practical strategies for fostering gratitude, resilience, and kindness in schools, along with insights into work-life balance, self-care, and her ‘Relax and Restore’ workshop for stress management.

Key topics include:

• Inspiration behind becoming an educator.
• Creating health & well-being resources for teachers and students.
• Importance of gratitude, resilience, and kindness in schools.
• Work-life balance and self-care strategies for teachers.
• ‘Relax and Restore’ workshop for stress management.
• Challenges in student mental well-being and school support.

Plus much more…

More About Alycia

Alycia Spencer is a Senior Health & Wellbeing teacher in the western suburbs of Adelaide and a mum of two young daughters. She has also been a SACE Supervisor Marker and Moderator, as well as Wellbeing and Yr10 Coordinator over the past decade. Alycia has been teaching since 2011 and landed her first job back at the school she graduated at, back in 2006 and is still there today, amongst other old scholars returning to the community culture the school has.

Growing up, she was always interested in sports, being active and being part of a team. She’s been involved with gymnastics, calisthenics, little athletics, swimming and predominantly netball, as well as being surrounded by cricket, footy and baseball. On maternity leave with her first daughter, Alycia developed Feather & Tassel – making dreamcatchers and handmade boho clutch bags to sell at markets. I guess you could say her creative side came from her mum, whom she sold products alongside of.

As time went on and she returned to teaching (and had another daughter two years later), Feather & Tassel pivoted into creativity in the wellbeing space. Developing gratitude, mindfulness, empathy and resilience-based resources for Health classes, sharing ideas within the Home Ec faculty at her school and eventuating into facilitating wellbeing workshops for teachers needing support with work/life balance.

Feather & Tassel owes a lot of gratitude to Ash Manuel and his 12-week mentoring program in early 2024, where wisdom, connection and networking sparked ideas for a passion project to flourish into something more. Alycia is excited about future prospects of meeting likeminded people passionate about living balanced lifestyles and expanding the capacity to improve the wellbeing of teachers, working parents, busy professionals and anyone wanting to live a happy and fulfilling life.

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