Bringing Hygge into the Early Years
A Step-by-Step Guide to Bring a Calm and Slow Approach to Your Teaching
- 190 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Bringing Hygge into the Early Years
A Step-by-Step Guide to Bring a Calm and Slow Approach to Your Teaching
About This Book
Bringing Hygge into the Early Years is a "how-to" guide for every early educator who wishes to bring more calmness and balance into their day, in turn, leaving them feeling empowered to teach and live well.
Drawing from the author's experience of embracing the Scandinavian way of living well, "hygge, " this book explores how this approach can have a positive impact across your early years setting, from improved mental health and wellbeing, to embracing child-led play and high-quality outdoor provision. With step-by-step guidance on how to embed the approach alongside examples of hygge from early educators around the world, the book is divided into four main parts:
- Re-balance you
- The hygge environment
- Slow teaching
- Embracing nature
Throughout each chapter, case studies and activities provide the opportunity to reflect on existing practice and support you as you make positive changes to both your wellbeing and provision. This guide will be essential reading for all early years professionals, offering further support to improve mental health and wellbeing, as well as valuable tools to lead early years practice with confidence and joy.
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Part 1
Re-balance you
- Discovering what hygge is
- Unlocking the secrets to improved wellbeing and happiness
- Understanding how you can plan your time more effectively
- Finding strategies to help you feel calmer
- Exploring the link to your core values and your early years practice
Chapter one How hygge supports you
- Insomnia: This includes broken sleep, struggling to fall asleep and nightmares.
- Muscles aches: When you feel under pressure, you’re unsure of how your leader might react to something and you hold your body so tight with so much tension. This is often felt in the back, neck and shoulders. It may feel like you’ve been lifting a heavy weight.
- Dizziness: When you’re stressed, your body produces a surge of hormones which makes your heart beat faster and your blood vessels narrow, which can lead to feelings of being light-headed and feeling dizzy. Longer term this also increases your blood pressure and puts you at a greater risk of a heart attack or stroke.
- Weakened immune system: If you’re feeling under pressure and stressed then your immune system is weakened. This might mean you catch every bug going around and need to take more sick days, which can then increase the level of stress you feel.
- Exhaustion: Do you feel as though it’s just too hard to get up in the morning? You press snooze three times; you need a nap mid-afternoon and crave sleep-ins on a weekend? When we find it hard to relax and switch off, our body doesn’t have any down time and we end up running on empty.
Hygge in the Early Years course has had a massive impact on me and my setting. Unlike any other course, it focused on my wellbeing too, something I never had time for and always felt guilty about. At the start of the course, I was at an all-time low in my career – I needed a major operation, wasn’t sleeping and felt stuck in a rut, doing the same routines. The course taught me to prioritise my own wellbeing, to slow things down a...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Endorsements
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 Re-balance you
- Part 2 Hygge environment
- Part 3 Slow teaching
- Part 4 Embrace nature
- Summary of book
- Bibliography
- Index