Overcoming Compassion Fatigue Training

Our Compassion Fatigue workshops provide practical strategies for leaders, managers, and employees to overcome compassion fatigue and create a healthy organizational culture.

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Overview:

Patterns of vicarious trauma, moral injury, emotional labor and chronic workplace stress can lead to Compassion Fatigue among professional care providers. Compassion fatigue is commonly found in healthcare professionals such as nurses, physicians, nursing home staff, and personal support workers (PSW). It is common among emergency responders, including police, military, firefighters, and paramedics. Compassion fatigue is prevalent in nonprofits, community support service organizations and spiritual care providers.

Compassion Fatigue can negatively affect employee engagement, innovation, and work-life balance, causing leaves of absence, job turnover, and resignations. This workshop provides practical information and solutions for leaders, managers, and employees experiencing Compassion Fatigue.


Target Audience:

  • Healthcare, nonprofit, community services, education and emergency response organizations.

  • This training can be customized for conferences, workplace leadership, managers, teams and employees who want to gain practical solutions for preventing and overcoming compassion fatigue while supporting a healthy organizational culture.


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Sample Compassion Fatigue workshop for Leaders & Managers

Overcoming Compassion Fatigue: Leadership For A Resilient Workforce

Learning objectives:

  • Understand the complex challenges leaders faced during the pandemic and beyond.

  • Learn clear research-based definitions of moral injury, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout and understand how each term plays out in the workplace.

  • Understand how compassion fatigue and moral injury affect employees and their long-term effects on frontline staff.

  • Gain an understanding of the role leaders play in recognizing compassion fatigue in the workplace.

  • Learn practical strategies for implementing effective person-centred employee care.

  • Engage in an evidence-based trust-building exercise to understand employees’ needs for thriving in the workplace.

  • Learn the critical components of workplace psychological safety.

  • Collaborate to create psychological safety in the workplace to foster a culture of compassionate leadership.

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Client Testimonials:

  • “Working with Bonita has been a true pleasure. Bonita went above and beyond to pull a curriculum together that will support us in creating a psychologically safe environment and to foster a culture of compassionate leadership. Bonita’s session on Trauma Informed Leadership gave our leaders the skills they need to understand the important role they play and how to implement positive changes.”

Julie Wheeler, Director Seniors’ Services Region of Waterloo

  • “Our organization connected with Bonita to provide a customized workshop about vicarious trauma, moral injury, compassion fatigue and burnout.  It was so helpful to understand the difference between each of these factors, how they contribute to our mental health, and how we can work to prevent them.  Bonita did an outstanding job of understanding our organization and our culture, and helped us to make meaningful progress in supporting our leaders.  I would not hesitate to recommend Bonita's services for any organization hoping to support their team in preventing burnout!  It is simply a fantastic investment:).  Thank you Bonita!”

Adrienne Hodges, Human Resources, Baptist Housing

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