Empowered Educators: PD Day 2025

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Lisa's work involves creating positive change in and out of schools by supporting the wellbeing of educators, while simultaneously building resiliency and restoring the joy of teaching.

Lisa Baylis has been sharing wellbeing strategies for the last 20 years. A natural born connector with an innate ability to make people feel valued and heard, she is a teacher, a counsellor, a speaker, and a mother. Lisa is a published author of Self Compassion for Educators as well as the creator of the AWE Method - Awakening the Wellbeing for Educators - which merges self-care, mindfulness, and self-compassion.

As a teacher, Lisa has taught internationally and locally. Much of her vast teaching experience was gained in classrooms across British Columbia as a school counsellor. She is currently a Doctoral student at UBCO while working in the role as Education Director for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, the non-profit organization created by Drs. Kristin Neff and Chris Germer to spread self-compassion around the world.