Workshop - Compassion Fatigue: Its Causes & Cures

Our workshops offer practical understanding and steps to follow to press into a journey of greater healing and wholeness. We blend teaching in psychology, sociology and theology with stories from people who have already experienced significant transformative change. Our community of folk in Montana and beyond offers plenty of opportunity to get support in implementing these ideas and principles to create personal growth.

Finding Freedom

This workshop will help us understand compassion fatigue and provide tools to recover as well as prevent it occurring. 

The Commons

Many people find that people and relationships can be tiring. When we need to provide support, love and care for others it can be exhausting, leaving us depleted and sometimes even resentful. We can feel ill-equipped, vulnerable, and perhaps overwhelmed. Even if this doesn’t apply to you, there will be people close to you who feel this way.If this was a problem in a pre-pandemic world, how much more severe is it now, when social distancing, masks, vaccinations and testing have become a normal part of social interaction? So many people in our world are more emotionally and physically ill than they were 12 months ago. In addition there are millions, yes millions, who are facing the multi-faceted challenges of unexpected bereavement or suffering significant changes in health to those they love.How will we respond? It is easy to try and ignore the need, to stand back, to disconnect ourselves from these life experiences. This semi-successful but always stressful approach is a vain attempt to achieve self-preservation. Is there an alternative? Is it possible to love well in the midst of such brokenness, without becoming increasingly broken ourselves? And can we help others do the same?Compassion fatigue is a term that describes the exhaustion of trying to empathize, to love, to support, when we have run out of our own capacity to do so. We start to find people and their stories exhausting, to want to avoid the phone or the next Zoom call. It is common in professions such as therapists, counsellors, doctors, pastors, etc. But it is increasingly becoming a problem for any who are willing to notice the people around them.The capacity to manage compassion fatigue is becoming a fundamental life skill for 21st century living. In this workshop Peter Holmes and Susan Williams will introduce compassion fatigue, the damage it creates and what can be done to avoid becoming burnt out by other people’s need. They will use psychological, sociological and theological perspectives to look beneath the surface at the mechanics of our emotional responses when we are around people in need. They will explore what we can each do to love well without it becoming a personal emotional hemorrhage.We will include practical steps not only to recover from burnout and exhaustion, but to prevent it occurring. You will discover how to avoid the overwhelm of another’s story. You will leave with tools to maintain your own emotional health and resilience in the face of need. And you will feel more equipped to respond to those close to you who do not understand the compassion fatigue they are suffering from. **Help us spread the word! <a href="https://findingfreedom.solutions/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20210121_Compassion-Fatigue-Workshop-Brochure.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Download and share the workshop brochure.</a>**

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