The Grief and the Relief: From Classroom to L&D Adviser
About this episode
Bex shares her journey of transitioning from a teaching career to becoming an L&D adviser, exploring the complex emotions of grief and relief associated with this change.
"Two emotions can exist at the same time. The grief can exist with the relief." Bex went into teaching straight out of university with her identity firmly attached to it. Quickly finding the environment ‘all-consuming’ and ‘energy depleting’, she spent 12 years in and out of the classroom - always getting pulled back in as she struggled to separate from a career she’d worked so hard for. Following a period of self-reflection, and taking some time to ask who she actually was outside of the job...
People in this episode
Host: Joanne Howard
Guest: Bex
Topics covered
- grief
- relief
- career transition
- self-reflection
- teaching
- learning and development
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