Course Description

This course helps mission-driven professionals center themselves. Blending videos and assignments, this course helps you develop your own self-care routine at work and at home.

Seema Rao

Seema Rao has almost two decades of experience in education. In her work, she has particular experience helping non-profit and museum volunteers improve their communication and interpersonal skills through inclusive language practices.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Mission-Driven Work

    • Introduction: Considering Your Work

    • Mission Driven Work

    • Work Foundations

    • Foundations

    • Passion

    • Passion

    • Stress

    • Stress

    • Profit and Credit

    • Profit

    • Why You Do the Work

  • 3

    The Mission-Driven You

    • You: Introduction

    • Observe You

    • ObserveYou

    • Denial

    • Denial

    • Emotions

    • Emotions

    • Profit and Gratitude

    • Value

    • Humor

    • Humor
  • 4

    Starting on Self-Care

    • What are you doing now?

    • Assess your daily self-care habits

    • Self-Care Behaviors Quiz Two

    • Self-Care Behaviors Quiz One

    • Focusing on Explicit Self-Care Tools

    • Assessing the Types of Self-Care that You Do

    • What You Are Doing Now

    • Diagnosis

    • Assessment
  • 5

    The Best You

    • Self-Care Sampler

    • Quick Self-Care

    • Sound

    • Listening

    • Social Experiences

    • Social

    • Creative Mindfulness

    • The Ideal You

    • IdealMe

    • Conclusion: You

  • 6

    Mission-Driven Work Done Better

    • Preventing Compassion Fatigue

    • Productivity

    • Productivity: Digging Deeper

    • Productivity

    • Communication

    • Communication

    • Interpersonal Relationships

    • IdealMe2

    • Your Work Motto

    • Conclusion: The Best Work You
  • 7

    Your Self-Care Plan

    • Putting it all Together

    • Recap

    • Work Next Steps/ Self-Care Plan

    • Self-Care Plan