Compassion Fatigue & Vicarious Trauma
Overview
This training will explore the reality that caring comes at a cost. We will identify signs and symptoms to watch out for and skills to reduce the impact of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout on your team. In addition, we will explore how the various parts of identity impact our experience and perception of these things.
Training Details & Format
Short Format
2 Hours
Virtual or In-Person Session
Unlimited Participants
Extended Format
4 Hours
Live Virtual or In-Person Session
Unlimited Participants
Learning Objectives
Explore compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious trauma, and how they manifest.
Recognize and assess the multidimensional impacts of trauma on individuals and those caring for them
Score your risk of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout.
Evaluate how the dimensions of your identity impact your experience of vicarious trauma
Articulate how varying identity factors shape how we navigate and cope with the impact of trauma.
Additional Objectives for 4 Hour Session
Develop and practice skills to care for yourself while you care for others.
Increase your interoceptive awareness to recognize different types of emotional or physiological activation—and respond with the most supportive skills.
Skills & Core Concepts Addressed
Compassion Fatigue
Vicarious Trauma
Burnout
Healing Power of Vulnerability
Mindful Stewardship
Community Care Skills
Why this? Why now?
The weight of caring for others isn’t only a strain on frontline workers; it crosses industries and management levels. The pressure to do more with fewer resources, alongside the emotional toll of our work, is leading to increased rates of burnout. There are resources, skills, and support that are available beyond the basics of self-care. Protecting the protectors is vital in supporting the needs of our communities in light of increasing societal and global conflict.
What is Artesian Collaborative’s approach to this issue?
Caring should never be the sole responsibility of the individual. This training helps participants understand the true cost of caring—emotionally, mentally, and physically. More than just theory, it offers a space for individuals to assess their current state, while learning and practicing personal, community-based, and systemic skills. The goal is to foster a care-forward environment—one where support, sustainability, and shared responsibility are built into the fabric of our systems and relationships.
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.”
"I really enjoyed the somatic practice experiences."
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.
