Fall 2025
Advisor Wellbeing & Emotional Resilience: Sustaining Yourself for the Journey
December 5, 2025
10:00am - 11:00am Central Time
Via Zoom - Members received a meeting link for this event.
If you are not yet a member but would like to join this session, contact us!
Presented by: Jacqueline Beverly, Director - Academic Advising Center, Columbia Southern University
Workshop Description:
Advisors are the steady guides on every student’s academic odyssey, navigating shifting expectations, increasing workloads, and the emotional weight of supporting others. But even the most experienced guides need tools, rest, and restoration to continue the journey with strength and clarity.
In this session, we’ll explore the practices and mindsets that help advisors stay grounded, healthy, and resilient in the face of constant change. Drawing from research, lived experience, and practical strategies, we’ll focus on reclaiming energy, managing emotional labor, setting supportive boundaries, and cultivating the wellbeing needed to sustain meaningful advising work
over the long haul.
This session honors the humanity of advisors. Because the journey is long and you deserve to
walk it with confidence, balance, and a full tank.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Advisors are the steady guides on every student’s academic odyssey, navigating shifting expectations, increasing workloads, and the emotional weight of supporting others. But even the most experienced guides need tools, rest, and restoration to continue the journey with strength and clarity.
In this session, we’ll explore the practices and mindsets that help advisors stay grounded, healthy, and resilient in the face of constant change. Drawing from research, lived experience, and practical strategies, we’ll focus on reclaiming energy, managing emotional labor, setting supportive boundaries, and cultivating the wellbeing needed to sustain meaningful advising work
over the long haul.
This session honors the humanity of advisors. Because the journey is long and you deserve to
walk it with confidence, balance, and a full tank.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Recognize signs of emotional fatigue, “hurry sickness,” and burnout common in advising
- roles.
- Understand the link between advisor wellbeing and student outcomes.
- Apply practical strategies for emotional resilience, including micro-reset practices,
- reflection, and boundary-setting.
- Use mindset reframes to navigate change and uncertainty with more ease.
- Identify personalized wellbeing rituals that support sustainability throughout the advising
- journey.
About the Presenter:
Jacqueline Beverly is the Director of Academic Advising at Columbia Southern University, where she leads a large, multi-layered advising operation supporting thousands of adult learners across diverse academic programs. With over a decade of experience spanning academic advising, instructional design, and leadership, Jacqueline brings a holistic and deeply human-
centered philosophy to her work.
Her professional focus includes advisor wellbeing, emotional resilience, holistic advising, and managing organizational change in high-volume advising environments. Jacqueline is passionate about cultivating healthy team cultures, strengthening communication, and creating sustainable systems that allow advisors to thrive while delivering exceptional support to students.
Drawing from her background in psychology, history, instructional design, and advising leadership, Jacqueline blends research-based strategies with real-world experience to help advisors navigate the challenges and emotional labor inherent in the profession. She believes that when advisors are well-connected and supported, the entire student experience transforms for
the better.
Jacqueline Beverly is the Director of Academic Advising at Columbia Southern University, where she leads a large, multi-layered advising operation supporting thousands of adult learners across diverse academic programs. With over a decade of experience spanning academic advising, instructional design, and leadership, Jacqueline brings a holistic and deeply human-
centered philosophy to her work.
Her professional focus includes advisor wellbeing, emotional resilience, holistic advising, and managing organizational change in high-volume advising environments. Jacqueline is passionate about cultivating healthy team cultures, strengthening communication, and creating sustainable systems that allow advisors to thrive while delivering exceptional support to students.
Drawing from her background in psychology, history, instructional design, and advising leadership, Jacqueline blends research-based strategies with real-world experience to help advisors navigate the challenges and emotional labor inherent in the profession. She believes that when advisors are well-connected and supported, the entire student experience transforms for
the better.
Times listed are Central Time.
