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NOTE: Please direct any enquiries regarding this event to the workshop organiser, Marie Bloomfield at marie@bloomfieldpsychology.com.au
Date: 30th Sept- 4th Nov 2021
Time: Monday 7:00-8:30pm AEDT
Location: Event Online- Webinar
Price: Early bird (16 Sept) $265.00 AUD, Regular $320.00 AUD
Presenters: Marie Bloomfield, Clinical Psychologist and John Julian, Social Worker, both Senior Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teachers
About
Increasingly we are aware that Health Care Professionals are vulnerable to stress burnout and empathy-compassion fatigue due to an emotionally demanding environment. Self-compassion for Health Professionals is a short new program which aims to teach powerful practices to promote resilience, to reduce stress and burnout in the workplace.
The new Self-Compassion for Health Professionals (6 weeks) is an adaptation of Mindful Self-Compassion, designed for busy people, who may have time constraints, and yet wants to learn ways to build their emotional resources. Self-Compassion teaches core self-care practices, to respond to difficult moments with kindness, understanding as well as resilience. The practices included in this program are simple, quick and easy, that you can use anywhere, anytime, when you need them. In this new program, we will be teaching the basic of MSC with some additional tools to promote mindfulness and to strengthen engagement in the workplace. The program was developed by Chris Germer and Kristen Neff, Krista Gregory, Natalie Bell, Phoebe Long and Marissa Knox from the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion. This online course offered in May will be the first time that it is presented in Australia.
This course is suitable for health professionals who wish to begin to use self-compassion in their work as well as others who have previously attended a mindfulness or self-compassion programs who want to refresh or deepen their practice as well as to learn additional quick simple tools to use in the moment to ease stress and promote resilience. We believe that a blend of beginners and previous MSC attendees can be supportive for everyone on their journey of self-compassion.
In this brilliant new program, you will be presented with evidenced-based strategies to manage stress, anxiety, burnout as well as powerful micro self-care practices, to refresh and revitalise your professional work. The Self-Compassion for health worker program is empirically validated (Krista Gregory, 2019). Research conducted in 2019 shows that this short course program leads to a reduction in stress, depression, secondary traumatic stress and burnout, as well as an increase in compassion, mindfulness, and job satisfaction in healthcare workers (Krista Gregory).
Learning objectives After participating in this workshop, you will be more able to: - Practice mindfulness and self-compassion in daily life - Act on core values and intention - Motivate yourself and others with encouragement rather than harsh self-criticism - Handle difficult emotions with resilience - Use tools to manage stress and burnout - Teach simple mindfulness and self-compassion practices
Program content Session 1: What is Self-Compassion and Three Exercises Session 2: Practising Self-Compassion and Mindfulness with Four Informal Practices Session 3: Discovering Your Compassionate Voice and Motivating Yourself with Compassion Session 4: Self-Compassion and Resilience with Three Strategies for Meeting Difficult Emotions Session 5: Self-Compassion and Burnout with an Informal Practice on Compassion with Equanimity Session 6: Making it Count: Exploring Core Values and Setting an intention with Informal Practices
Who is it for The program is targeting health professional (psychologists, social workers, nurses, medical practitioners, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, counsellor). However, other helping professionals would also find it very helpful, who are working in the educational, legal, welfare, emergency, wellness, business, defence or environmental sectors such as school teachers, lawyers, mindfulness/yoga teachers, coaches, managers, students and so on.
This course is suitable for those who wish to begin to use self-compassion in their work as well as others who have previously attended a mindfulness or self-compassion program who want to refresh their practice as well as to learn additional quick simple tools to use on the spot, to ease stress and promote resilience. We believe that a blend of beginners and previous MSC attendees can be supportive for everyone on their journey of self-compassion
