Empathy-Based Stress: practical supports for volunteers

headspace NSW Response & Recovery

This session covers the main elements of Empathy-Based Stress and some proactive strategies to address it within volunteer organisations.

Kyogle Together Inc - Laneway Community Space

NSW Response & Recovery: Empathy-Based Stress

Empathy-based stress sessions for community organisations and schools.

Volunteering can take a toll on our wellbeing. When we are regularly supporting people with complex needs, it is a natural human response to feel affected or overwhelmed by this. We can feel this more acutely in areas affected by natural disasters and other large-scale events. This session covers the main elements of Empathy-Based Stress (Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout), and how it relates to the work volunteers do. It also creates a reflective space to dicuss practical strategies that we can implement to take care of ourselves and each other.Learning outcomes:<ul><li>Understand the strain of a caring role</li><li>Understand secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, burnout and compassion fatigue</li><li>Discuss simple individual and collective strategies to prevent and address empathy-based stress</li><li>Identify where to access further support</li></ul> Your Facilitators – Daniel Comensoli and Louise Hallinan

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