TWO DAY TRAINING- Compassion Stress Management and Compassion Fatigue Practitioner – Learn to combat toxic stress, prevent and resolve burnout and so much more!

(This is a required training for Beautiful Minds Project Trauma Team and to be eligible for deployment. Fulfills training requirement for the Green Cross Compassion Fatigue Educator Certification and the Green Cross Compassion Fatigue Therapist Certification)

General Registration Price: $198

First Responder Discount: $99

If you have any issues with registration please email Dr. Alina at hello@alinagarbuz.com or send a text to 719-401-8772

(All proceeds from this training are supporting a trauma deployment team to Asia) 

An Intensive and Interactive two day training for all! Are you exhausted, burned out, fatigued of compassion and service, losing empathy, burdened by vicarious trauma? Do you work with people.. and are you tired of people, even though you still love them? Do you want to grow in professional resilience and post-traumatic growth? Do you want to learn to live preventatively as your vocation takes you forward? This training is for you!

Learn to heal compassion fatigue and to create a lifestyle that prevents burnout so you can thrive and transform through post-traumatic growth and resilience! Come join your fellow “heroes” in the community and be equipped towards Professional Resilience!

Day 1: Compassion Stress Management (Compassion Fatigue Educator Certification). This training emphasizes self-care strategies for those working in short term and long term disaster and traumatic environments. Emphasis is placed on skills acquisition for self-regulation of mood, and self-monitoring. This training is recommended for mental health professions, first responders, volunteers, and anyone interested in becoming more equipped in compassion stress management.

The Compassion Fatigue Educator course of training is for those who are primarily interested in teaching and guiding colleagues about self care, developing and managing a self care plan, and effective compassion fatigue stress management. (This training fulfills the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology Certification Level 2 for Compassion Fatigue Educator Certification)

Upon completion of the course, the participants will:

1. Articulates the developmental history of compassion fatigue including counter-transference, caregiver stress, burnout, vicarious traumatization, and secondary traumatic stress.
2. Differentiates between compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious traumatization.
3. Articulates the unique array of symptoms indigenous to compassion fatigue.
4. Assesses and identifies symptoms of compassion fatigue in self and others.
5. Recognizes compassion fatigue triggers and early warning signs.
6. Articulates current theoretical models for the etiology and transmission of compassion fatigue.
7. Articulates and teaches others the potential effects of traumatic stress upon systems (marriage, family, workplace, etc).
8. Identifies and utilizes resources and plans for resiliency and prevention for self and ability to facilitate this plan with others.
9. Knowledge of what is required to create and maintain a self-care plan for self and others and familiar with the Academy of Traumatology’s Standards of Self Care for Traumatologists.
10. Knowledge of what is required to facilitate a self-care plan for self and others.
11. Knowledge about providing psycho-education on the causes, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of compassion fatigue.
12. Knowledgeable of and abides by the Academy of Traumatology Standards of Practice and Ethics.

Day 2: Compassion Fatigue Practitioner (Compassion Fatigue Therapist Certification). This training builds on the compassion fatigue educator course to be able to monitor and care for those responding or working with crisis, disaster, terrorism, or chronic trauma. Assessment and practical skill are emphasized with self-care and wellness strategies for continuing effective intervention. (This training fulfills the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology Certification Level 3 for Compassion Fatigue Therapist Certification)

Upon completion of the course, the participants will:

1. Recognize the array of assessment methods for both compassion fatigue, resiliency, and stress reactions.
2. Recognize the array of treatment approaches for treating compassion fatigue and related work-related trauma.
3. Recognize that strategies for preventing compassion fatigue are associated with effective self care and, thus the need to focus on wellness in the workplace.
4. Describe the elements of the wellness and the MASTERS Transformative process
5. Describe the challenges of working with those with compassion fatigue and how best to convince them that they need a comprehensive program of transformation.
6. Describe the process of translating the data generated from testing and interviewing the client to designing a program of treatment and Identify self-care goals;
7. Describe the basic elements of a Compassion Fatigue Treatment Program.
8. Understand and appreciate one’s own journey to wellness and be aware of the requirements for getting there and staying there.
9. Learn and practice visualization techniques.
10. Develop a path for one’s own journey and the need for self care toward wellness.
11. Recognize resistance to, excuses about, and readiness for wellness transformation.
12. Apply the array of treatment approaches for treating compassion fatigue and related work-related trauma.
13. Describe the ways in which Traumatic Incident Reduction can be used effectively to desensitize traumatized workers as part of a comprehensive wellness transformation process.
14. Describe the ways in which EMDR can be used effectively to desensitize traumatized workers as part of a comprehensive wellness transformation process.
15. Describe the challenges of remission in the journey toward wellness and the strategies to prevent it and assure wellness maintenance.
16. Apply the wellness transformation process in one’s own professional context (e.g., private practice, child protection, medical, first responders)
17. Recognize and appreciate the challenges of applying the knowledge and skills of a Compassion Fatigue Therapist to extend this knowledge through training, education, and supervision.