Combatting Compassion Fatigue: Hope as a Discipline

Description: Youth workers pour into young people every day and rarely get poured into themselves. Over time, that imbalance can show up as exhaustion, numbness, cynicism, shortened patience, or withdrawal from the work that once felt like purpose. Whether you're deep in it, feeling the edges, or want to recognize it before it arrives, this workshop is for you. This session names compassion fatigue and the deeper wound beneath it: doing transformative work inside systems never designed to sustain us or the young people we serve. Through story sharing, popular education, and embodied practice, participants will have space to be honest, share what sustains them, and leave reminded of why they started.

Trainer: Eroc Arroyo-Montano spent 16 years as a youth worker and knows this terrain personally. Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano is a proud father of three children, an emcee, circle keeper, artist, cultural organizer, educator, curandero and aspiring elder. He is a queer Boricua raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the radical, award-winning Hip Hop group, Foundation Movement, with whom he has been blessed to facilitate workshops and perform around the globe. This has included Tanzania (where they performed at Black August), Kenya, Cuba (where they were honored to meet Assata Shakur), Palestine (where they performed at refugee camps), South Africa, and Japan (where they participated in a 72 day peace walk from Hiroshima to Tokyo). All of these experiences have deeply transformed and continue to transform Eroc and his work. Healing justice, arts & activism, and popular education remain Eroc’s passions, purpose and priorities in his community liberation movement work, all of which he is able to develop, practice and facilitate in his current role as UFE’s Director of Cultural Organizing. He is often a lead facilitator at UFE’s trainings and gatherings, a circle keeper for UFE- and partner group-led events, and he guides groups to address conflicts generatively.

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