Compassion Fatigue Solutions

There are still a few seats left to attend this one day Train the Trainer course in London. Please note that this workshop is also going to be offered in Winnipeg November 28th.

This workshop is designed for helping professionals who wish to become compassion fatigue educators and trainers.

Details on the London Training:

Compassion Fatigue Train the Trainer - the One Day Course
September 17th, 2008
Women's Community House, London, Ont.
With Françoise Mathieu, M.Ed. CCC.
Hosted by Solutions on Site

Develop the skills and knowledge base to deliver a creative and practical Compassion Fatigue workshop in your agency or community. Based on the fundamentals of Françoise’s inspiring one day Walking the Walk workshop, this training will teach you how to deliver a workshop that incorporates a combination of solo, small group and whole group activities.

Prerequisites to attend:

To fully benefit from this training session, you need to have either:

A minimum of one day of prior training in Compassion Fatigue and/or Vicarious Trauma and a good working knowledge of the basic concepts related to compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma

OR

If you do not have prior training but wish to attend, you can prepare by completing the following steps:

1) Read the following two articles: Running on Empty: Compassion Fatigue in Health Care professionals and Transforming compassion fatigue into compassion satisfaction: Top 12 Self Care tips for helpers which you can obtain by going to my website: www.compassionfatigue.ca, and clicking on Resources and Links. You will see the articles there as pdfs. I can also email them to you: whp at cogeco.ca

2) Watch the 1.5 hour video "The Basics" which can be found at http://www.ohtnmedia.org/ohrdp/conf_2008/video_07/
or view it by going to my website: www.compassionfatigue.ca and click on resources and links and then on multimedia

3) Complete the compassion fatigue self test and review your scores. To receive this self test automatically, email: thingy at aweber.com (change the "at" to an @)

4) Visit this blog's archives and have a read

In order to benefit from this training, you must have completed either of the prerequisites.

For More info:
www.sosworkshops.ca
Solutions On Site, 143 Forward Ave, London, On
Phone: 519-640-2030