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. 

• All our workplace trainings are customised according to your needs.

• These can range from 60 minute presentations to more popular full and half day trainings.

Learning Objectives

• Learn about the unique challenges to professions that require emotional labour.

• Develop awareness of Burnout, Vicarious Trauma and Secondary Traumatic Stress. 

• Improve your ability to self-reflect on your service delivery and how to see your own warning signs.

• Enhance your own natural emotional intelligence using research-based techniques of mindfulness and body awareness.

• Implement practical self-care practices that will build professional resilience and sustainability.

• Promote team connections and compassion for each other

Main Content

• Exploration of emotional labour and the phenomenon of stress and exhaustion so common in the human the service industry.

• What is Burnout, Vicarious Trauma and Secondary Traumatic Stress and what can we do about it.

• Reflection exercise to build awareness of habitual responses

• How mindfulness and body awareness can be used to promote professional sustainability.

• Mindfulness and body awareness exercises (equipment provided up to 20 people)

• The neuroscience of empathy and its alternatives.