Compassion Fatigue/Resiliency

Providing professional development and facilitated planning opportunities to build capacity on the concepts of resilience and compassion fatigue, and the impact of stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue on the education environment; how to identify signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue; and included concrete steps for developing a professional self-care plan.

Compassion resilience for those in the education field is:

• The ability to maintain our physical, emotional and mental well-being (using energy productively) while compassionately identifying and addressing the stressors that are barriers to learning for students,

• Identifying and addressing the barriers to caregivers/ parents and colleagues being able to effectively partner on behalf of children, and

• Identifying, preventing, and minimizing compassion fatigue within ourselves

Address Loss of Learning 

Support Recovery