Re-thinking teachers’ body awareness to support well-being and resilience practices during COVID-19
Re-thinking teachers’ body awareness to support well-being and resilience practices during COVID-19

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the concept of body awareness is introduced in view of supporting teachers’well-being and resilience practices, with a focus on COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers experiencehigh rates of stress and pressure to cope with current working conditions due to COVID-19pandemic. Depression and anxiety related to teachers’ duties have been largely researchedworldwide. Research is being done around well-being from different perspectives, mentalhealth, emotional and spiritual well-being, among other research done. However, littleresearch has been done associated with body experiences and awareness from a holisticdimension that focuses on developing well-being and resilience practices; a state of mind andbody that goes beyond acquiring physical skills to develop better physical condition. Thusfar, despite relevant reviews and works have been published in relation to well-being andresilience practices in education, there is a need to explore the body experience to supportteachers’ challenges during COVID-19 pandemic. For doing so, this work aims to reviewliterature on the concept of well-being to elaborate, first, on the importance of supportingteachers’ well-being during COVID-19 pandemic. Second, we elaborate on the concept ofbody awareness in education. Third, we briefly explore the concept of resilience in relationto teachers’ well-being. Last, we raise some critical remarks about body experiences in education post COVID-19, and the need of re-thinking well-being and resilience practices in the school community to face with uncertainty.

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