“The anti-racist workshop is a study in love,” says Felicia Rose Chavez.

Teaching is both an art and a spiritual endeavor. Teachers need retreat time, too, just like artists who have retreated to the Cape Cod dune shacks in Provincetown, MA for decades.

Research shows how writing can be a healing tool for trauma. And, yet, we don’t often embrace that for ourselves or teach that to students.

Two main reasons teachers burn out: (1) the impact of secondary trauma and (2) the loss of a sense of purpose.