Master Thesis

With the many shifts, cut-offs, and new adaptations at the outbreak of Covid-19, teachers, like the other groups affected, have to braze themselves to stand as frontlines for education to persist while in the pandemic. As researchers have more recognized the role of spirituality among patients and those struggling in any kind, this study aimed to explore the experiences and challenges of teachers particularly in their spiritual engagements. This qualitative study involved group interviews, surveys, and other documents as the means to gather data, and Colaizzi's descriptive phenomenological method (Morrow et al., (2015); Abalos, et al., (2016) for treating the data gathered. Results showed that teachers' family upbringing has encouraged them to be spiritually engaged; their spiritual engagement (personal or communal, virtual or face-to-face) has helped them emerge with positivity besides learning to be emphatic towards their colleagues and other people; their being anxious as You sent an effect of the pandemic, was mollified through their spiritual exercises; professionally, their sense of purpose and meaning was ignited; and their relationship with others and with God was developed and deepened. With these findings and the overall result of this study, a Spiritual Care Program was developed for public school teachers; and so emphasize spiritual care for growth and sustenance not only for teachers but also for every type of journey in life.