Watch the Recording: Planning for Rest and Recovery: An Agile End-of-Year Reflectionn
Host:
Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD
Director of the Faculty Professional Development
Georgia Institute of Technology
Take a deliberate pause, recharge, and step into the new year with clarity, focus, and renewed energy.
Have you had a year of intense teaching, research, service, meetings, and deadlines? It’s time to shift gears.
In this on-demand workshop, you’ll explore how to intentionally close out the year by aligning your self-care with the agile values of focus, courage, openness, commitment, and respect. Drawing on practical strategies from agile frameworks, you’ll walk away with a personal plan to rest actively and recover, so you can enter next year with purpose and vitality.
About the Presenter
This session was originally hosted by Dr. Rebecca Pope‑Ruark, Director of the Office of Faculty Professional Development at Georgia Institute of Technology. With 17 years of experience in higher education teaching and faculty development, and the author of Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal and Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching, Rebecca brings both insight and actionable tools to support your end-of-year reset.
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What You’ll Get
- A clear path into next year with renewed energy, focus, and purpose.
- A guided reflection – helping you surface what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what you want to carry forward.
- A framework rooted in agile values – so self-care becomes part of how you work, not an afterthought.
- A personalized self-care plan you can put into motion before year’s end.