Date of Degree Completion
Spring 2025
Degree Type
Capstone - Open Access
Instructor/Advisor
Dr. Melissa Nemon & Dr. Audrey Falk
Abstract
There is a lot of literature discussing burnout, training that exists to help leaders combat leadership burnout and resources that uplift self-care practices. However, very few talk about student leadership burnout, the harm burnout can cause student leaders, and how to prevent burnout from occurring. This workshop aimed to examine how student leaders can utilize selfcare practices through intentional planning and boundary setting to prevent student leadership burnout from happening to care for oneself while caring for others with a focus on prevention work. Although everything discussed and shared throughout this workshop can be used to recover from burnout, the goal is to prevent student leaders from facing it because true prevention work includes setting up future professional leaders–student leaders with the knowledge, tools, and resources to practice self-care, self-advocacy, and avoid burnout in general. The workshop provided profound observations on how student leaders at Stonehill College experience leadership burnout, navigate prevention and recovery from burnout, explore their relationship to self-care, and use practices such as boundary setting, self-advocacy, and intentional planning. Following the workshop's conclusion, data collected from discussions, activities, surveys, and observation rubrics were systematically assessed and analyzed.
Recommended Citation
Ramoz, Desiree Ruiz, "Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others: How to Utilize Self-Care Practices Through Intentional Planning and Boundary Setting to Prevent Student Leadership Burnout" (2025). Community Engagement Student Work. 132.
https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/soe_student_ce/132