Compassion Fatigue: Purpose, Passion and Power By Eric Gentry
If you are suffering from your work, you are doing it wrong. Most compassion fatigue and burnout trainings identify the problem as the workplace environment. “The demands are just too high!” “They want too much from me!” “There is too much to do and not enough time to do it.”
When we frame the problem and solution as external—that something outside of us needs to change before we can feel better or be happy—then we are victims of these environments. Most of us don’t even know that we are doing it because nobody has ever shown us a different way. We just go along with everyone else and blame the problems we are experiencing on our bosses/co-workers/workload/hours or fill-in-the-blank.
This workshop will show you how to put your focus and energy where you have control and power—yourself! You will learn how to change your physical, emotional, perceptual and behavioral reactions at work into intentional efficient responses conducted inside a comfortable body. Sounds like magic? Well it’s not. The resiliency skills you will learn to in this training are grounded in good science and are evidence-based with data from thousands of professionals who have transformed their professional lives. Like them, you will be amazed how these principles are so simple!
In this two-hour workshop you will learn:
How to work the rest of your career without suffering the effects of stress.
Resiliency skills that you can implement immediately for yourself …and with your clients
Discover a disciplined skills-building process that will transform your care practice away from being a victim of “stressful environments” into one in which you thrive as a mission-driven instrument of healing.
- The REAL cause of Compassion Fatigue
- Treatment of Compassion Fatigue – How to lessen work-related stress symptoms
- Professional Maturation: Resilience & Optimization – How to prevent work-related stress symptoms
- Self-regulation
- Intentionality
- Perceptual Maturation
- Connection & Support
- Self-care & Revitalization
- Explain causes and symptoms of compassion fatigue including physical, emotional, psychological, and professional effects.
- Describe the core components for the effective treatment of compassion fatigue—how to immediately lessen these symptoms.
- Practice evidence-based skills for enhanced professional resilience—how to prevent these symptoms.
What is health?
In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO)Trusted Source defined health with a phrase that modern authorities still apply.
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
In 1986, the WHOTrusted Source made further clarifications:
“A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.”
This means that health is a resource to support an individual’s function in wider society, rather than an end in itself. A healthful lifestyle provides the means to lead a full life with meaning and purpose.
In 2009, researchers publishing inThe LancetTrusted Source defined health as the ability of a body to adapt to new threats and infirmities.
They base this definition on the idea that the past few decades have seen modern science take significant strides in the awareness of diseases by understanding how they work, discovering new ways to slow or stop them, and acknowledging that an absence of pathology may not be possible.
Compassion Fatigue: Purpose, Passion and Power By Eric Gentry
