Overview

Delivery method

Virtual classroom

Duration

3 Hours

Audience

Employees

Description

New offerings will be offered in the Fall 2024

Warning

This workshop contains sensitive material related to mental health and suicide. Support is available to all employees through the Employee Assistance Program at 1-800-268-7708.

Objectives

This workshop is designed to help employees:

1. develop a greater awareness of the impact of their work on their well-being

2. further their understanding of the concepts of vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue/empathic distress and burnout

3. further develop their capacity for self-care and emotional self-regulation

Agenda

1. Creating a space for awareness through a grounding exercise

2. A continuum of occupational stress: compassion fatigue / empathic distress/vicarious trauma and burnout

3. Factors that contribute to compassion fatigue / empathic distress / vicarious trauma and burnout

4. How to prevent and recover from compassion fatigue / empathic distress/vicarious trauma and burnout

5. Integration: steps I can undertake to protect myself from compassion fatigue/empathic distress/vicarious trauma and burnout

Facilitator: Dr. Jean-Luc Leblanc

For more information: Contact the Centre of Expertise for Learning and Professional Development.

Accreditation by Law Societies:

For information about the continuing professional development (CPD) hours for this course, please consult the 2024 Accreditation Summary.

If you have questions, please contact the accreditation team by email (Accreditations@justice.gc.ca).