SafeGuards

Compassion Fatigue: Train-the-Trainer on 'Walking the Walk'

Topic	AAA-Trauma
Certificate	No
Level	Advanced
Format	In-Person
Session	Winter/Spring
Course Dates	Click here

Description

Françoise Mathieu, M.Ed., CCC.Certified Counsellor, Compassion Fatigue Specialist and Director of WHP has designed a two day, intensive train-the-trainer retreat on Compassion Fatigue.

Some past participants of the one day Compassion Fatigue workshop (Walking the Walk) expressed an interest in receiving help in designing a workshop to bring back to their communities and developing the skills and knowledge base to deliver compassion fatigue workshops themselves. This train the trainer workshop offers tools, handouts, strategies, training material and marketing strategies to adapt Walking the Walk to your agency’s specific needs (and to your own presentation style).

Because of the small size of the group, certain aspects of the training will be customized to your specific needs. A questionnaire will be sent ahead of time to establish your needs/goals and objectives and aim to fulfill as many of these as possible.

You will be offered tools, strategies and techniques to develop and deliver the workshops on your own and become a CF educator and trainer. What differentiates this workshop from other educational sessions, is the extra layer of understanding and validation that we hope to convey to our workshop participants. Therefore, the train the trainer workshop is designed to take you deep first, to gain a true and thorough understanding of your own relationship to CF. Then you will learn the didactic details (what to teach, how to teach) and finally talk about the mechanics of the whole process (how to customize this for your own work needs/goals etc.).

Commitment on your part:
To fill out questionnaire ahead of time and return it to Safeguards in advance of the training.

Spaces limited to a maximum of 20 participants.Certificates of Completion will be provided

PREREQUISITES**
Prior attendance to the full day or half day workshop Walking the Walk is required. (You may have attended a session at your workplace, or in a different community in the recent past). For those who have not attended this workshop in the past, Walking the Walk will be offered on the day prior to this training. If you have attended Walking the Walk at an earlier date, please indicate when that was on your registration form.

Outcomes

Learn:
•How to use the Compassion Fatigue Workbook
•What are Compassion Fatigue, Caregiver Stress, Vicarious Traumatization and burnout
•Signs and symptoms of CF/VT/Burnout
• Assessment tools
• Warning signs
• Resiliency skills
• Self Care Strategies
• Academy of traumatology standards of Ethics
• How to offer psychoeducation on this topic
• Experiential activities that work with audiences
• How to design your own workshop: what is your target audience

Francoise will also share the lessons she has learned during the past 8+ years of offering these workshops and more...

Pricing

Non-member fee	$276.85
Member fee	$56.50

Course Dates

Register Online	Facility	City	Date	Instructors
	Travelodge Hotel & Convention Centre	Ottawa	November 4-5, 2010, 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Mathieu, Françoise
	TBA	London	January 24-25, 2011, 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Mathieu, Françoise