Caring on Campus is a collective for those within the Higher Education (HE) sector involved in university life, irrespective of whether they are located on or off campus.
Through tutelage, mentoring and retreat space, its aim is to offer resources and facilitation where professional and personal wellbeing can merge seamlessly, to create learning experiences where everyone feels they matter and belong.
It gets to the core of what it means to connect, to listen and to communicate. Where everyone involved in Teaching & Learning can thrive in relationships and spaces where they can explore, establish and express their own individual values and purpose as a way of living and being.
TRANSFORMATION STARTS WITH YOU!
We all want to give of our best, but that can add to our stress when we haven’t first developed our inner resources. If focus on self-renewal feels difficult, remember it enables you to better support others, as well as enhance your own wellbeing.
It’s an inside-out Ripple Effect
We especially look towards Higher Education as a vital source of quality leadership and positive societal impact. In a world that demands constant output, resilience without self-renewal is unsustainable. At every level and role within Academia, how we engage with ourselves will inevitably ripple outward – shaping how we engage with living and learning, our communities, and ultimately, how we influence the world at large. This is Quality in Education: UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #4.
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.
We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.
Desmond Tutu
THE ESSENTIALS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED!
The UK Government urged the University Mental Health Charter (UMHC) Programme to be taken up by all HE institutions by Sept 2024. Due to falling far short of this, the target date has now been extended a further two years. Its aim is to achieve a whole-university approach to mental health and wellbeing, as a Principle of Good Practice. Furthermore, Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings now include Impact & Sustainability as an additional consideration, where for Quality Education, SDG #4, the UK participation is weakest.
It is mental wellbeing that ensures sustainability. From the inside-out, personal wellbeing sustains professional wellbeing, which in turns sustains good leadership, resourceful communities and sustainable world economies. More than anywhere else, the guiding principles to enable this can be made visible within Higher Education.
Irrespective of your involvement in university life – student, teacher, admin and support services, or governor – if you share our imperative for praxis towards transformation, then let us hear from you.
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