Compassion Fatigue Solutions

Hi, how are you? Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? :-)

I had a very interesting week and had the pleasure of presenting at the stunning Dundurn Castle in Hamilton to professionals working in developmental pediatrics at Hamilton Health Sciences and in the community. Thank you for your warm hospitality and for tolerating my big booboo at the train station (basically I made someone wait for me for 1.5 hours due to a comedy of errors...so sorry...)

The week ahead is a busy one: I will be presenting at the CHUM in Montreal on Tuesday, working with health care staff from palliative care and oncology. Then, it's off to Newmarket to work with Ontario Works staff from York Region, for three days of training. Next week is the two day Compassion Fatigue Train the trainer back home in Kingston. For those of you who may be interested in attending the next Train the Trainer, which is being held in March, please note that there are only 20 spots available and that registrations are coming in fairly steadily, therefore to avoid disappointment, please consider registering soon. Please also note that from March onwards, there will be a prerequisite to attend the Train the Trainer workshop: you must have completed a full day or half day "Walking the Walk" session at some point in the past or simply attend the one day training being offered on the day prior to the Train the Trainer session. For more information click here.

Something new: I will be offering an e-learning session for a private group in a couple of weeks via a process called Fireside Chat: it's a very simple and affordable process whereby participants use their laptop and a phone line to take part in a teleconference while being able to view the power point slides. If I like it, I might use this to start offering some distance learning sessions in the new year.

I am changing decades in two weeks. Gulp.

Finally, if you are building a christmas wish list for yourself, I would like to recommend some good old standbys from my library:

Take time for your life by Cheryl Richardson
Mindfulness-based stress reduction cd package by Jon Kabat-Zinn
50 ways to simplify your life by Patrick Fanning

In peace,

Françoise