Discover how the emotional demands of care work shape your well-being and professional effectiveness. This training helps you recognize signs of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma, cultivate resilience, and integrate trauma-informed practices into your daily work. Through guided reflection and peer connection, you’ll leave with actionable strategies to sustain compassion satisfaction and ethical care over the long term.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Explain compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction in clear, practical terms, and identify how they manifest in direct support and case management roles.
- Recognize indicators of emotional exhaustion and secondary trauma, and assess their impact on professional effectiveness and personal well-being.
- Apply trauma-informed principles to self-care and workplace culture to promote safety and sustainability.
- Reflect on personal experiences of compassion fatigue and satisfaction through structured activities that foster peer learning and shared insight.
- Practice resilience-building techniques, including boundary-setting, values-driven self-care, and collaborative support systems.
- Commit to one or more sustainable practices that enhance long-term resilience, compassion satisfaction, and ethical care.
