Emotional and Psychological Resilience and Compassion Fatigue Workshop

This key online workshop and supporting resources to help staff manage overall mental health and well being and more specifically emotional and psychological resilience and issues relating to compassion fatigue.

This workshop will support staff working in a range of frontline roles. Developing skills to manage self and others in these very pressured times. The workshop will include skills to manage their own feelings of anxiety, anger, stress and frustration and to understand terms such as compassion fatigue and burn out as well as skills to engage effectively with others working through and dealing with this current pandemic.

The outline and key objectives include:

• Develop key ways to help staff develop psychological and emotional resilience in
• difficult and stressful workplaces.
• Define and understand key terms such as, burnout, resilience, compassion fatigue, and how these conditions develop in us and colleagues.
• Understanding ways we can interrupt psychological and emotional negative thoughts and feelings.
• Spotting the signs in ourselves and others and how these conditions can significantly affect our ability to help others.
• How to support and manage these conditions and develop effective and prompt interventions with exercises and reflections to help to move forward effectively.

The workshop is delivered online in three hours in duration. Each workshop has a limited number of participants to ensure quality of delivery and full benefit to all involved. This session will also include course notes and a workbook with a number of techniques and exercises for staff to work through as well as a reflective journal as optional resources aimed at helping you to cope and manage these very difficult and challenging times

Course tutor - Martin Smith PhD
Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, a specialist trainer in mental health, communication, interpersonal skills, and conflict management with over thirty years training experience. He is also a Psychotherapist with a private practice specialising in the treatment of a range of mental health issues. He has been in
clinical practice for over 20 years. He has specialised in extreme difficult behaviour in the workplace and personality issues which go well beyond simply awkward for over ten years and has written a number of online articles on this
subject

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