The Wounded Healer Workshop: Treatment & Recovery from Vicarious Trauma, Moral Injury, and Burnout for Professionals
As healing professionals, we spend so much time putting others first, we put ourselves last.
Stressed and burned out, we brush off our own trauma, ignore our own needs, confuse “self-care” with selfishness, and tell ourselves to “suck it up” for one more day.
But too many of us are leaving the fields we once loved, numbing our moral injuries through self-medication, or worse.
Whether you’re a therapist, nurse, social worker, or any helping professional, you can’t afford to continue to work wounded, trying to pour into others from your empty cup.
That’s why Harvard-trained trauma expert, board-certified psychiatrist, and author of The Wounded Healer, Dr. Omar Reda developed this training…
…to help you break the toxic cycle of caregiver trauma, toxic stress and silent suffering so you can thrive and regain the joy of serving others - while not leaving yourself behind in the process.
When you watch Dr. Reda for this inspirational one-day workshop you’ll get:
Now more than ever before we need to recognize that self-care is not a luxury; it’s a responsibility.
Purchase today and let the healing begin.
Objectives
1. Assess for provider burnout using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).
2. Differentiate between burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and toxic stress.
3. Utilize nature and movement-based strategies to reduce stress levels and increase well-being.
4. Employ gratitude-based interventions to increase feelings of support, satisfaction and well-being.
5. Utilize self-care planning and strategies to prevent and intervene when burnout threatens or becomes apparent.
6. Analyze how organizations and systems can combat burnout, build resiliency in employees and improve retention.
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Vicarious Trauma, Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
A Culture of Silent Suffering
Building Your Toolbox: Skills and Resiliency Practices
Making the Decision to Heal Yourself
Target Audience
Those who work with victims of various types of violence can experience compassion fatigue and burnout when they feel they are unable to meet the needs of the people they work with. Providing tools to these workers, to increase feelings of competence and to address the needs of the victims they work with, improves outcomes for both parties. Workers being able to address feelings and experiences of vicarious trauma can prevent burnout and allow them to continue to do this important work.
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Working with clients who are traumatized and/or grieving is challenging. It requires that we remain connected and engaged as we hear stories of loss and pain and horror. We witness our clients in states of abject fear, red-hot anger and soul-crushing grief. Most times we are trapped in our office chairs and are compelled to witness and absorb this pain being experienced right in front of us. That obviously is going to cause problems for us clinicians, right? You cannot listen to and absorb trauma throughout your career without getting sick from it, right? Not necessarily. Join Dr. Gentry—an international expert on the treatment and prevention of compassion fatigue—in a hope-filled look at Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience. Born from over 20 years of research and development, FFPR provides a pathway for professional maturation that both resolves and prevents the deleterious effects of work-related stress including secondary traumatic stress and burnout. The five simple resilience skills of FFPR have demonstrated effectiveness in significantly lessening compassion fatigue symptoms while enhancing resilience and professional quality of life. These results have been published in 12 peer-reviewed articles with multiple populations of professional and volunteer care providers.
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Your Job is NOT Stressful! From external to internal locus of control
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Stress is ubiquitous these days. And it can take a heavy toll unless it is recognized and managed effectively and insightfully. Though compassion fatigue is an oft-used phrase, how accurate is it? Does one truly become fatigued by feeling, expressing, or manifesting compassion? This recording will explore the deeper source of the well-known phenomenon of burnout, when people engaged in caring for others experience a depletion of their energies, a psychic and physical lassitude. Practices will be taught to prevent what is known as compassion fatigue, and to restore our energies if we have been affected by it. Dr. Maté’s presentation includes research findings, compelling and poignant anecdotes from his own extensive experience in family practice and palliative care.
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Bestselling author and Kinsey-trained sex educator Emily Nagoski’s deeply sympathetic, sex-positive book, Come as You Are, became an instant classic when it normalized differences in sexuality and desire for millions of readers. A TED Talk garnering over a million views followed, and dramatically moved the conversation about sexual consent and abuse forward by dismantling the myth that physical reactions to sexual stimuli are always tied to desire and enjoyment.
But when her twin sister experienced stress-induced burnout so extreme it landed her in the ER, Nagoski turned her public focus from sexuality to our modern epidemic of emotional exhaustion. Learning the experience is so common that even the trained therapists and psychologists in her milieu—some burnout experts themselves—were in similar straits, she discovered we’ve been lied to our whole lives about what wellness, which can prevent burnout, looks like. Now, after some of the most stressful years for therapists on record, she shows those of us who are exhausted but still worried we’re not doing enough, how to truly care for ourselves and our clients.
Their new book, Burnout, now also a New York Times bestseller, confronts a national self-care movement that’s missed how staying well is a state of action, rather than a state of mind: one that involves consciously leaning into the innate cycles of being human. In this recording, she'll share how to practice care as we go from effort to rest and back, from connection to autonomy and back, from adventure to homecoming and back. And we’ll learn how to respond when gender, race, dis/ability and socioeconomic status are barriers to that care succeeding. In a profession that expects its practitioners to constantly invest in others, this recording is devoted to exploring how we can invest in ourselves.
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Working with military and veteran clients is meaningful and deeply rewarding. But witnessing suffering can result in vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout. This recorded session will give you the tools you need to incorporate self-care in your practice and in your life. You’ll learn to recognize essential signs of therapist stress and explore personal and organizational factors and strategies that help prevent it. Get the support you need to implement an effective self-care plan.
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