Compassion Fatigue & Vicarious Trauma
Summary
For those in helping professions, non-profits, and front-line work, we know that caring comes at a cost. If we’re not careful, the emotional burden we carry can quickly sink us into compassion fatigue and burnout. In this workshop, our team of mental health professionals will help you identify the signs and symptoms of burnout, and equip you with skills reduce the impact of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
Training Details & Format
4 Hours
Live Virtual or In-Person Session
Unlimited Participants
Learning Objectives
Understand compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout.
Score your risk of compassion fatigue and burnout.
Develop skills to care for yourself while you care for others.
Skills & Core Concepts Addressed
Impact of Vicarious Trauma
Healing Power of Vulnerability
Mindful Stewardship
Community Care Skills
Why this? Why now?
Whether you experience trauma firsthand, witness it, or work with those affected, trauma disrupts lives and communities. We will explore how trauma disrupts people's lives from a physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, relational, and systems perspective to reduce judgment and stigma around the costs of caring.
What is Artesian Collaborative’s approach to this issue?
Sometimes we actively disengage from painful things as a form of self-protection. Building awareness of the impact of trauma is part of your stewardship as well as maintaining a connection to hope and joy. Finding the balance between responding to pain and seeking joy is a core component of trauma stewardship and a mandatory aspect of sustainable trauma care work. To heal our experiences, we need to allow ourselves to be vulnerable internally and with our communities. Together, we will explore the forms of vulnerability that lead to burnout and the ways to build self and community care to utilize vulnerability as a strength to support individual and team health.
Participant Feedback
“I have taken a few workshops with Artesian Collaborative and cannot recommend them enough.”
“This was an excellent training. I learned things about myself and my team that I did not realize.”
Our Training Team
As trained mental health professionals, our passion is to help people navigate pain and turn it into growth. Many corporate training programs are great at helping us address the symptoms of tension and conflict, but rarely get to the root of why we feel and act the way that we do. At Artesian Collaborative we believe that tension, conflict and discomfort are not merely problems to be solved. They are opportunities that, when used correctly, can transform our organizations, our relationships and ourselves.
As we train your team our primary goals are to:
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Help your organization build a culture that supports psychological and emotional health.
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Guide your team through tension and conflict in a way that builds understanding of themselves and others.
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Facilitate interactive and interpersonal workshops that help teams experience positive interactions in the moment that can serve as a model for healthy organizational culture.
Sunitha Chandy Psy.D.
