In this session, Dr. Luz Casquejo Johnston explores why self-care is essential for Montessori guides navigating today’s rapidly shifting world. Drawing from Montessori’s call for “preparation of the spirit,” participants will learn how rest, boundaries, and nervous-system regulation strengthen their capacity to lead calm, connected classrooms. Through practical tools – breathwork, healing practices, and designing non-negotiable rhythms – guides will discover how tending to their own inner landscape transforms the environment for children. This session offers grounded, actionable strategies to help educators sustain their purpose, presence, and joy while supporting 21st-century learners.
In this video
Self-care for parents who feel stretched thin, with a long guided meditation in the middle of the session. Dr Luz Casquejo Johnston looks at what radical self-care can mean for a parent of young children. Later chapters cover rest, boundaries, old patterns and the time for yourself that keeps getting dropped. Near the end come simple practices like box breathing and journaling.
Chapters
- 0:00 Welcome, land acknowledgement and her Montessori roots
- 4:05 What radical self-care means and the oxygen mask for parents
- 11:24 The six phase meditation and what each phase is for
- 15:13 Guided meditation: breathing, compassion and gratitude
- 23:55 Meditation: forgiveness, a three-year vision and your day
- 30:33 Inner triangle, old patterns and feeling safe in your body
- 35:28 Rest as resistance: claiming rest and positive time-in
- 40:04 Boundaries as care, spoon theory and non-negotiable time
- 44:01 Healing practices: box breathing, journaling and therapy
- 48:45 Justice questions and designing your non-negotiable time
