Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities (SCHC) Series (Online)

***Must be a healthcare professional to register. For more information, please contact kimberly7917@gmail.com

Building Resilience and Mitigating Burnout

What if there was a skill you could use to help you sustain compassion in the face of competing demands like technology/documentation, time pressures, and fatigue?

Self-compassion skills can be used on the spot while at work—and with your own inner critic. The SCHC program was found to significantly decrease depression, stress, and burnout; and to increase self-compassion, mindfulness, compassion for others, and job satisfaction in healthcare professionals.

The three key components of self-compassion are self-kindness, a sense of common humanity, and mindful awareness.

Course Description and Benefits

Self-Compassion Training for Healthcare Communities (SCHC) is an evidence-based adaptation of Mindful Self-Compassion, the empirically supported program of Kristin Neff, Ph.D. at UT Austin ( www.self-compassion.org) and Christopher Germer, Ph.D (www.mindfulselfcompassion.org) at Harvard Medical School offered by the global nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion.

Self-compassion practices can be used while at work with patients and colleagues. As a participant of the program, you can learn tools to use throughout the day to:

• Care for yourself while caring for others

• Listen with compassion

• Handle difficult emotions with greater ease

• Reconnect to the values that give your life and work meaning

This training focuses on improving wellbeing and personal resilience in healthcare professionals by teaching mindful self-compassion skills to deal with distressing emotional situations as they occur at work and at home.

Objectives

• Explain the difference between empathy and compassion

• Use strategies to avoid emotional exhaustion.

• Practice techniques to increase self-compassion at work and everyday life.

• Practice at least 1 skill from each session to care for yourself while caring for others.

Kimberly is a registered nurse (RN) and trained Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Teacher. She is Kripalu Yoga Teacher (RYT500) and Pathwork® Helper, offering individual sessions and group classes both virtually and in the Greater WDC area. For more information, please visit her website https://path-of-compassion.org/

Registration Fee - $240 for 6 weeks

Refund Policy -A refund will be issued, minus Eventbrite processing fee, for cancellation made up 72 hours before the start date/time of the course. No refund is available after this time (except on compassionate grounds for extenuating circumstances).