Improving the qualifications of teachers of the Department of Financial Management by participating in the online forum “Psychological Health of Educators”

On September 14, 2023, professors of the Department of Financial Management of the Faculty of Finance and Business Administration of Ivan Franko National University Ulyana Vatamanyuk-Zelinska and Yuliya Shushkova, associate professors of the department Dubyk Victoria, Zahidna Oksana, Klepanchuk Olga and Petyk Lyubov participated in the online forum on the topic “Psychological health of educators”. The teachers received theoretical and practical knowledge on the topic of the forum and underwent 6 hours of professional development (0.2 ECTS credits).
Organizers of the forum: Educational platform “4 PEOPLE”, NGO “UAFIT”, Alex Polin Mindfulness.
The topic of the forum was rich and interesting, among the speakers:
– Oleksandr Polyanchuk (certified trainer of mindfulness practices according to Mindfulness programs of the University of Oxford Mindfulness Center, Great Britain, head of the Alex Polin Mindfulness project) taught how to create an individual system for strengthening mental health and conducted a short therapeutic mindfulness practice;
– Nataliya Zhakina (trainer of Mindfulness practices, Mindful Academy Solterreno, Spain, psychologist partner at Alex Polin Executive Search company) reported “How to take care of mental health in a changing world in conditions of war and how to practice mindfulness in everyday life”;
– Kateryna Sysoeva (practical psychologist, certified trainer, trainer-speaker of the training center “Academy of Talented Leaders”) paid attention to leadership and mental health of educators;
– Maria Ivanchuk (Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Center for Monitoring and Quality Assurance of Professional Training at the Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University, Professor of the Department of Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine) outlined the main aspects of the formation of motivation for self-development, harmonization of one’s own psychological health I’m with the teachers.