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.
Academia was designed as a sanctuary for deep inquiry, yet staff and students today often navigate a relentless culture of metrics and burnout. Generic, often commercialised, wellbeing packages and administrative sticking plasters cannot fix this.
Yet, what lies inherent in our nature is “The urge which is evident in all organic and human life—to expand, extend, become autonomous, develop, mature—the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.” — Carl R. Rogers.
QUALITY EDUCATION: WELLBEING, TUTELAGE & MENTORING
Caring on Campus is a pro bono initiative within the LifeRoute charity that helps get to that more complex secret third thing. We offer independent space, deep listening, and foundational principles to help you step off the treadmill. We don’t sell services; we help you cultivate your inner resources so you can support others without depleting yourself.
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 FABRIC OF A COLLECTIVE GOOD FUTURE
Moving beyond generic goals (such as SDGs and university mental health, equality charters etc ) we connect structural threads of university life where the skills and competences provide assurance of a good collective future. Our work centres on four interdependent components, and the consequent change to belief, behaviour, character and culture.
♦ Emotional Intelligence Infrastructure Essential to optimise the use of AI, preventing technological alienation and ensuring readiness and resilience for the modern workplace.
♦ Relational Learning Partners Existing personal academic tutoring replaced by high-impact human guidance, including mirroring, through reconfiguration of existing resource and at minimal or no additional overall cost.
♦ Restoring Voices Actively dismantling governance cultures that silence, ignore, or disempower staff and students.
♦ Excellence in Campus Connection Facilitating a profound sense of place and belonging — thriving even across digital divides.
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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