Running on Empty: Supporting Educators Facing Burnout, Fatigue and Emotional Strain

Running on Empty: Supporting Educators Facing Burnout, Fatigue and Emotional Strain

Date: Thursday 21st May 2026

Time: 7pm

Facilitator: Sorcha Mallen

Sector: Primary & Post Primary

Blurb: 

Many educators today are carrying high levels of fatigue, burnout, and emotional strain. The demands of school life often leave little space to pause, reflect, or reconnect with the deeper purpose that first brought them into teaching. Yet purpose, clarity, and connection remain some of the strongest protective factors for educator wellbeing. This webinar offers a focused space to realign with what sustains you.

Who it’s for:

Teachers, school leaders, and staff experiencing fatigue, burnout, or emotional strain who want to reconnect with their core motivation and professional purpose.

Learning Outcomes: 

Renew focus, purpose, joy and clarity in work and relationships

Reconnect with core motivation and professional satisfaction.

Explore strategies to nurture connection with yourself, colleagues, and students. Introduce a values-based framework informed by 'The Four Agreements'.

Encourage and support vulnerability, courage and respect in working through professional relational challenges.

Outcome:

Renewed clarity, purpose, and energy, supporting more authentic and confident working relationships.

This webinar is hosted by Mayo Education Support Centre. The information you provide when registering will be shared with the host centre and the centre through which you booked and can be used and shared by them in accordance with their Terms and Privacy Policy, which is available on their website.