This morning, I saw the leaves just beginning to change colour in our local park and the message was clear - fall is on its way!
This season, I will be offering two Compassion Fatigue workshops to helping professionals in the Greater Vancouver area, the very popular, Caring on Empty: Compassion Fatigue Transformation & Resilience and the first of the Compassion Fatigue: Going Deeper workshop series, Compassion Fatigue: Going Deeper I: The Enneagram.
You are warmly invited to join us for one or both of these workshops and to bring a friend! The venue is comfortable and cozy for a mid-autumn gathering, the food will be simple but delicious, and the conversation, (if previous experience is any judge), will be both fun and stimulating.
For further information or a registration form, you can contact me at (604) 297-0609 or by email at caregiverwellness@shaw.ca.
1. Caring on Empty: Compassion Fatigue Transformation & Resilience
This is an intriguing, discovery-based workshop for helping professionals interested in learning about Compassion Fatigue, the natural and expectable secondary traumatic stress that can affect anyone who works with the suffering or traumatized. We will look at CF's potential impact on practice, your personal level of CF risk, symptoms and early warning signs, and realistic ways to transform and become more resilient to CF.
When: Friday, October 21, 2011
9:00 - 4:00
(Registration at 8:30 am)
Where: Shaughnessy Heights United Church lounge
1550 West 33rd Avenue, Vancouver, BC
(West of Granville Street)
Cost: $135 (Includes HST, lunch & handouts)
Who Should Attend: Any helping professional working with the suffering or traumatized.
2. Compassion Fatigue: Going Deeper I - The Enneagram
Two of the early warning signs of compassion fatigue are irritability and emotional reactivity. This beginners Enneagram workshop builds on Caring on Empty and will help you to discover your personality type within a group of nine types and to determine the situations that are most likely to "push your type's buttons." You will also learn a form of mindfulness meditation that will help you to become more aware of your type-based responses.
Rather than "putting you in a box" as some might fear, personality typology has the potential to free you from the box of your unexamined personality.
The Enneagram, a mix of ancient wisdom tradition and modern personality theory, is more useful and accurate than any other personality system with which I've worked , primarily because it focuses on the motivations behind our behaviour rather than the behaviour, itself.
Join us to begin a process of self discovery which, at the very least, will make you laugh out loud in recognition and, at best, could change your life!
When: Friday, November 18, 2011
9:00 - 4:00
(Registration at 8:30 am)
Where: Shaughnessy Heights United Church lounge
1550 West 33rd Avenue, Vancouver, BC
(West of Granville Street)
Cost: $145 (Includes HST, book, handouts & lunch)
Who Should Attend: Helping professionals, as above.
3. Heads Up for the New Year
The second of the Compassion Fatigue: Going Deeper Series will be offered in early 2012. With the tentative title of, "Becoming Weller Than Well", this workshop will be highly interactive and will use a variety of modalities- story, collage, mandalas, meditation reflective exercises - to help you explore CF resilience in greater depth.
(Please note: No special skills or creative abilities will be necessary and you don't have to share your creations with anyone else, unless you would like to do so.) Please watch for details later in the year.
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