Prof. Dr. Hab Alicja Galazka

/ Poland

Psychologist, linguist, ICI Vice President for Coaching in Poland, trainer and international educator. Lecturer and researcher in the university setting, and in multiple private institutions. Graduate of the University of Silesia and the School of Education of the University of Exeter, UK. Author of many postgraduate programs. Coordinator and speaker in many international projects, scientific projects, as well as in the field of research. She has participated in numerous European university courses, mainly in the United Kingdom, as well as in the United States. Speaker and trainer in the field of international communication, creative thinking and problem solving, the development of social and emotional intelligence and the optimization of each individual’s potential.

Expert in the world of theater and associated methods in the field of education, expert in the field of interpersonal relationships in training, expert in therapy. Founder and director of the FUTURE Education Center, which for 20 years has been involved in the education of children, young people and adults, carrying out many research projects, as well as training in the European Union . The author of innovative methods in the teaching of foreign languages, based on the foundations of cognitive psychology, psycho-neurology and theatrical staging.

Building teachers Psychological resilience and well-being through life coaching

Research indicates that stress and burnout are growing and pervasive problems among employees, with teachers being especially vulnerable to feeling frequent stress from their jobs. Teachers usually think about their students and how they cope with difficulties but they rarely think about their own well- being whereas there is a close correlation between the effectiveness of teaching and the level of teachers’ stress. Research shows that many teachers are at crisis point. Most of them are under increasing pressure and they often say that their workload is “unmanageable.

Research suggests that more and illnesses can be attributed to stress in some way because of the harmful effects of raised levels of toxic stress hormones which flood through your body as a result of the stress response or fight or flight reflex. Recently we have been talking a lot about personal resilience which is an ability to cope with stress and adversity, It is a “ bouncing back” effect which is a very individual skill developed and correlated with many other factors. Research shows that resilience results among other factors from individual skills in communication and problem solving, ability to build positive relationships, self-esteem and self -efficiency and locus of control.

Life coaching is a tool which promotes development of social and meta skills and can be effectively used to stimulate psychological hardness not only among pupils but also among teachers. Different coaching techniques were used to develop teachers’ well- being and equip them with some strategies of stress management. The presentation will focus on discussing the findings of the empirical studies taken this year and helps to understand the necessity of dealing with teachers emotional exhaustion