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Cultivating Calm And Stillness At The Doctoral Level: A Collaborative Autoethnography, Luis Pentón Herrera, Ethan Trinh, Manuel De Jesús Gómez Portillo

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

Academia is a stressful environment for students and professors alike. While pursuing a degree, students often experience emotional and psychological distress, which may affect their ability to balance their personal, financial, and professional lives. Similarly, faculty in higher education also experience undesired feelings and emotions such as burnout, stress, fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, and burnout, connected to their job. Inspired by the work of Brown (2010, 2013), the authors of this article engage in a collaborative autoethnography (Chang, Ngunjiri, & Hernandez, 2013) to explore the cultivation of calm and stillness as self-care practices at the doctoral level. In this article, …