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What is self-care?

Self-care is taking responsibility for yourself to maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle at work and in your personal world through individually determined, proactive activities.

Our Vision

In keeping with the ¼ªÏé·» theme of inclusion and excellence within the campus community, the vision of the College of Education Self-Care Initiative (Self-care for U at Northridge, or the SUN Program) is to motivate and empower COE faculty and staff to engage in a healthy lifestyle within the college environment in order to promote a community that embraces a culture of joyful productivity and provides opportunities for both the college and its people to thrive.

Our Mission

The mission of self-care in the College of Education is to offer an inclusively developed program in which COE faculty and staff identify and engage in convenient, balancing, and life-enhancing self-care activities located within the college to support both healthy faculty and staff, and a healthy college environment.

Benefits

Why participate in self-care? What are some of the possible benefits?

1. Faculty and staff self-care brings people together in a relaxed atmosphere to give attention to their needs for healthy living, renewal, and quality of life in the College. It offers a pleasant, constructive setting for faculty socializing and networking.
2. Activities focused on self-care can ultimately make people more productive and satisfied in their jobs, both as individuals and in working together.
3. COE Self-care activities show an appreciation of our hard-working faculty and staff and a concern for our welfare.
4. Attending a self-care group promotes a sense of belonging.
5. Self-care ideally will be embraced as a philosophy of life, and can encourage creative development of other self-care activities within the college, engagement in other self-care resources within the wider campus and the community, and promotion of a self-care philosophy with our students entering the teaching, counseling, and administrative fields.
6. A self-care philosophy of life leads to healthy living, renewal, and quality of life in one’s personal life outside the college community as well.

(Thanks to Susan Auerbach for contributions)