Create Your Educator Vision Board

At a glance

Time

60 minutes

Format

Individual

Activity type

Creative

WELL pillar

Wellbeing First, Empower Through Learning, Lead With Purpose

Overview

When you spend your days caring for children, supporting families, working alongside other educators and responding to everything that needs your attention, it can be surprisingly easy to lose sight of yourself in the middle of it all.

This activity gives you permission to step back for a little while and think about where you are now and where you want to go.

Your vision board isn’t about creating a perfect life or setting a collection of impressive goals. It is about noticing what matters to you. What do you want your work to feel like? What kind of educator do you want to be? What do you want more of? What do you want to protect?

There is no right way for your finished board to look. It can be beautiful and carefully designed, messy and covered in handwritten notes, completely digital, or something only you understand. What matters is that it means something to you.

Who this is for

This activity is for educators at any stage of their career who want some space to reflect on what matters to them, reconnect with their sense of direction and think intentionally about the educator and person they want to be.

Purpose

To create space for educators to identify what matters to them personally and professionally, recognise what they want more of in their work and create a visual reminder of the direction they want to move towards.

What this activity leads to

• Identify personal and professional priorities.
• Reflect on what you want your work and wellbeing to look and feel like.
• Recognise areas you want to protect, strengthen or change.
• Create a visual representation of your values, hopes and direction.
• Choose practical actions that can begin moving your vision into everyday life.