Sustainability in Human Services
This program is specifically designed to build the physical, emotional, and mental foundations needed to avoid burnout and have longevity in roles that require emotional labour.
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All our workplace trainings are customised according to your needs.
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These can range from 60 minute presentations to more popular full and half day trainings.
Learning Objectives
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Learn about the unique challenges to professions that require emotional labour.
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Develop awareness of Burnout, Vicarious Trauma and Secondary Traumatic Stress.
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Improve your ability to self-reflect on your service delivery and how to see your own warning signs.
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Enhance your own natural emotional intelligence using research-based techniques of mindfulness and body awareness.
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Implement practical self-care practices that will build professional resilience and sustainability.
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Promote team connections and compassion for each other
Main Content
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Exploration of emotional labour and the phenomenon of stress and exhaustion so common in the human the service industry.
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What is Burnout, Vicarious Trauma and Secondary Traumatic Stress and what can we do about it.
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Reflection exercise to build awareness of habitual responses
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How mindfulness and body awareness can be used to promote professional sustainability.
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Mindfulness and body awareness exercises (equipment provided up to 20 people)
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The neuroscience of empathy and its alternatives.