🌳 TEA and Teachers : For Those Who Hold Space for Others

Professional supervision with gentle, whole-person care

For teachers who need holding, not just managing.

For the ones carrying their students' struggles, navigating impossible demands, and giving from their hearts every single day.

What is TEA and Teachers?

Teaching asks so much of you. You hold your students' struggles, navigate impossible demands, and give from your heart every single day. Even in a staffroom full of colleagues, you can feel utterly alone with what you're carrying.

You need more than strategies. You need someone who sees the whole of you - not just your classroom practice, but your humanity. Someone who understands that your nervous system needs tending just as much as your lesson plans do.

This is professional supervision that doesn't feel clinical. It's not transactional. It's holding that honors both your skill and your tender heart - because you can't teach from your heart if your heart isn't being held.

Teaching Heart Supervision

One-to-one sessions where you can bring what you're truly carrying

Teaching is tender work. You hold so much - your students' struggles, curriculum demands, challenging dynamics, your own exhaustion, the weight of caring when the system doesn't always care back.

This supervision space is for you - the teacher who needs to be held, not just managed. A place to bring your questions, your challenges, your grief, your joy, and receive support that honours both your professionalism and your humanity.

What we'll explore:

Whatever you're carrying from the classroom right now
Challenging dynamics with students, colleagues, or leadership
Supporting your wellbeing while holding space for others
Navigating change, transition, or burnout
Finding sustainable ways to teach from your heart without depleting yourself
Your practice, your questions, your growth as an educator

This is for you if:

You're a teacher needing professional supervision that doesn't feel clinical
You want support that sees you as a whole person, not just a practitioner
You're navigating difficult classroom dynamics or systemic challenges
You need space to process what teaching asks of you
You want supervision that includes care for your nervous system and wellbeing

This is professional supervision with a gentle, whole-person approach.

Book a session €66

Teaching Circle

Group supervision, support, and held workspace for teachers

3 hours | 4th Tues every month| €44 drop-in

Teaching can be isolating. Even in a staffroom full of colleagues, you can feel utterly alone with what you're carrying.

This is a different kind of staffroom - a gentle, held space where teachers gather for supervision, peer support, and companionship in the work. Part group supervision, part co-working, part sanctuary.

Bring your planning, your questions, your challenges, your tiredness. Work quietly alongside others who understand. Share what you're navigating. Receive support. Know you're not alone.

What happens in the three hours:

First hour: Supervision & Support

Group check-in - what are you carrying?
Peer supervision and shared wisdom
Space for questions, challenges, difficult dynamics
Gentle guidance and reflection

Second & Third hours: Held Workspace

Work on whatever you need (planning, marking, reports, CPD)
Gentle accountability and companionship
Optional breathwork break midway
Tea, presence, and the relief of not working alone

This is for you if:

You're tired of working in isolation
You need professional support without it feeling formal or heavy
You want accountability and gentle structure for your work
You long for colleagues who truly understand
You need a space that holds both your professionalism and your humanity

Drop in when you need it. Come regularly or occasionally. You're always welcome.

Book Your Place - €44

How These Work Together

Finding What You Need

If you need one-to-one holding for something specific you're navigating - a difficult dynamic, burnout, a transition, or just needing space to process what teaching asks of you - Teaching Heart Supervision offers that intimate, tailored support.

If you're tired of working alone and want the companionship of other teachers who understand, plus structured time to actually get work done - Teaching Circle gives you community, accountability, and held space.

Many teachers use both - monthly Teaching Circle for ongoing community and workspace, plus one-to-one supervision when something specific needs deeper attention.

What Makes This Different

I've walked the teaching path for over 30 years. I know what it feels like to be stretched too thin, to carry your students' struggles home with you, to give until there's nothing left. I understand the particular exhaustion that comes from caring deeply in a system that doesn't always support that caring.

This supervision isn't about fixing you - you're not broken. It's about tending you. It's about creating space for you to breathe, to process, to be held while you do the holding.

I'm qualified in professional supervision, and I bring decades of teaching experience plus training in breathwork, nervous system regulation, and trauma-informed practice. But more than credentials, I bring understanding of what teachers truly need.

Qualifications:

30+ years teaching experience
Professional Teaching Supervision qualification
Conscious Connected Breathwork Practitioner
Trauma-informed practice
Understanding of nervous system regulation and educator wellbeing

“As long as you are breathing, there is still time to start a new chapter. ”

-Author Unknown

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