ABSTRACT
Self-care involves taking action to support, protect or maintain wellbeing. Relationships have a significant influence on these acts of self-care and one’s sense of wellbeing. Relationships are fundamental to individual meaning-making and crucial to the world of academia.
In this edited collection, authors navigate how they view relationships as a crucial part of their wellbeing and acts of self-care, exploring the "I", "We", and "Us" at the centre of self-care and wellbeing embodiment. Each chapter unpacks this idea in varying ways that demonstrate that relationships are a fundamental element of both work and personal life and how they intersect with wellbeing. The authors present critical discussion through visual narratives, lived experiences, and strategies that highlight how relationships, seeking social support, scaffolding opportunities to learn with and from each other, and changes in practise become acts of self-care individually and collectively.
There has arguably never been a more important time to raise awareness of self-care and wellbeing as central to the nature of work in higher education. Healthy Relationships in Higher Education: Promoting Wellbeing Across Academia highlights new ways of working in higher education that disrupt current tensions that neglect wellbeing and will be of interest to anyone working in this environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|9 pages
Vulnerability, self-care, and the relationship with us and others in higher education
section Section 1|65 pages
The intertwined relationship between us, we and I
chapter Chapter 3|15 pages
“A stitch in time …”
chapter Chapter 5|21 pages
Creating a sense of belonging through self-care strategies in higher education
section Section 2|66 pages
Fostering connections
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
Alamus
chapter Chapter 9|13 pages
Creating care-full conditions is institutional work
chapter Chapter 10|11 pages
Table chats
section Section 3|67 pages
Relationship with self