WHO'S IN THE ROOM?

 

Let's say you're a professor who encounters 100 students in a given year. Based on Healthy Minds 2023 report, statistically speaking, of those students,

• 36 have anxiety severe enough to warrant a diagnosis

• 28 experience depression

• 53 feel lonely or isolated

• 29 self-harm; 14 will think of suicide

• 8 have a trauma-related diagnosis, such as PTSD (this number is rising each year due to school shootings, etc.)

• 7 have an eating disorder

• 7 have obsessive compulsive disorder

• 25 suffered from some kind of childhood abuse or neglect

In addition, 75% of all college students report feeling serious psychological distress. One major contributor is "existential anxiety," or a lack of meaning and purpose in life. 

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HOW CAN WE HELP?

 

Transformative Teaching is not just about best practices. It's about a way of seeing and being in the classroom. What you'll find here are practical resources to retool your approach to teaching around the three-fold gaze:

• Looking Inward - cultivating self-knowledge

• Looking Outward - connecting with others

• Looking Upward - making meaning through adopting a larger frame

 

Teaching from the threefold gaze will facilitate the flourishing of all the humans in the room -- students and teacher alike.