Wellness-based Writing Retreats: Promoting Academic Productivity across Professional Stages within Counselor Education

Bigelow, Taylor M.; Das, Bagmi; Gilfillan, Beth H.; Forziat-Pytel, Kellie; Galván, Angélica; Kim, So Rin

doi:10.1080/15401383.2021.1924096

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“…This was particularly challenging during the pandemic but setting boundaries where the home office could be closed and afforded personal time on over weekends. This promoted a sense of accomplishment and strengthened participants' personal well-being, congruent with Bigelow et al. (2022) findings, namely allotting times for wellness activities, debriefing the writing process between sessions, creating flexible and positive surroundings for writing, encouraging external supports and adjusting the structure as needed (2021).…”

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confidence: 56%

“…The SoWT (Fleuret and Atkinson, 2007) is particularly relevant to CAE case study of this paper as scholars identify wellness as an antidote to stress and burnout (Gleason and Hays, 2019). Bigelow et al. , 2022, p. 511) found the inclusion of wellness activities as a factor in improving the “overall writing yield” during writing retreats.…”

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Creating spaces of well-being in academia to mitigate academic burnout: a collaborative auto-ethnography

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PurposeIn contrast to prior studies examining burnout in academic employees, this paper explores how academic employee agency mitigates burnout risks in the context of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and how this agency facilitates research productivity and influences well-being in the face of changes in learning and teaching practices.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use collaborative auto-ethnography (CAE) in the higher education (HE) sector to probe how an employee productivity group supported the group's members during the pandemic.FindingsThematic analysis revealed four emerging themes: burnout, beneficial habits for research productivity, blocking-out-time and belonging. The authors' findings suggest that by acknowledging and legitimising employee-initiated groups, feelings of neglect can be combatted. Purposeful employee groups have the potential to create a therapeutic, safe space and, in addition to the groups' productivity intent, diminish the negative effects of a crisis on organisational effectiveness.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the literature by utilising a CAE approach to provide greater insight into how academics enact agency by creating digital research workspaces, attending to the spatial dimensions of well-being especially during turbulent times.

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