Workshop Name: |
Vicarious Resilience: Sustaining Compassion Effectiveness in a High Stakes High Stress Work [VRS1] |
Description: |
Mental health professionals choose to be engaged in meaningful work that alleviates distress and suffering while promoting wellbeing. For the most part professionals appear to be resilient under stress and may often experience vicarious resilience rather than a traumatization when witnessing the stories and strengths of clients and communities. Yet, there remains a risk of professionals and agencies veering off to becoming disengaged, distressed or dissatisfied at work. How do professionals and organizations remain well while effectively managing complex work demands and the risks of vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout? This workshop is for mental health professionals, clinical supervisors and managers who are interested in updating work and health practices in keeping with the best developments emerging from neuroscience, traumatic stress studies, sports psychology and mindfulness based approaches.
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Fee: |
$159 (HST included) |
Dates |
[VRS1] November 20th, 2011 |
Instructor(s): |
Ted Bober, MSW, RSW For over twenty five years much of Ted’s clinical and consulting practice has focused on resilience and recovery in the context of trauma, crisis and disasters. He is particularly interested in occupational health of health and emergency professionals. He currently works at the Ontario Medical Association’s Physician and Professionals Health Program with professionals experiencing their own occupational distress, mental health or substance use problems. On a part time basis he is the Clinical Coordinator of Pearson International Airport’s Crisis Response Team and a wellness advisor for Health Canada’s National Psycho-Social Emergency Response Team. Ted has been a consultant and front line responder following airline crashes in Canada, in New York after 9/11 and the SARS crisis. Ted facilitated workshops in Canada and the US and is a co-author of the book In the Line of Fire: Trauma in the Emergency Services published by Oxford University Press.  |