A trauma-informed training designed to help helping professionals recognize burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma while building sustainable practices for long-term wellbeing.
Helping professionals frequently work in environments characterized by trauma exposure, crisis response, emotional labor, and systemic challenges. While this work can be meaningful and rewarding, it can also carry significant emotional, physical, and professional consequences.
Over time, repeated exposure to trauma, suffering, and crisis can contribute to burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. These experiences can impact emotional wellbeing, workplace relationships, professional effectiveness, job satisfaction, and long-term sustainability within helping professions.
The Cost of Caring: Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, & Sustainable Advocacy is a trauma-informed professional development training designed to help participants better understand the impact of trauma exposure while exploring practical strategies that support workforce wellness, organizational accountability, and sustainable advocacy.
This training moves beyond the idea that burnout is simply an individual problem and examines the important role that workplace culture, supervision, workload, staffing, and organizational practices play in supporting—or undermining—professional wellbeing.
Through education, reflection, and practical application, participants will gain tools to recognize warning signs, understand the impact of trauma on both individuals and systems, and develop strategies that support long-term sustainability.
Explore emotional labor, workforce wellness, and the importance of sustainable advocacy.
Learn the differences between these experiences, identify warning signs, and explore their impact on helping professionals.
Examine trauma, trauma responses, protective factors, and the influence of trauma on behavior and professional practice.
Review the principles of trauma-informed care and explore how cultural humility, self-awareness, and organizational practices influence service delivery.
Identify organizational contributors to burnout and develop practical strategies that support sustainability and workforce wellness.
Create a personal sustainability plan and identify actionable next steps for professional growth and wellbeing.
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