Grind Culture - A Detriment: Sharon Higginbothan
Dialogue on Teaching, Wabash Center’s podcast series, is hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director of the Wabash Center. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcasts focus upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, university, seminaries, as well as the publics impacted by these schools. Dialogues with faculty and administrators working in the wide range of institutional contexts illumine the complexity of teaching and the teaching life.
Sharon Higginbothan, PhD is the Founder and Principle of the Higginbothan and Associates LLC where they do coaching, group facilitation, and consultation. She is also Adjunct Professor of Liberation and Womanist Theology at Chatham University.
When we work until we are physically, mentally, and spiritually sick we are participating in being exploited by grind culture. When is enough enough? Sabbath (ceasing) might be a practice to lower fear, anxiety, and rage. What happens when you do not have the bandwidth to get through the day or the semester? What help is there for surviving grind culture?