This three-hour workshop provides practical skills and tools for all professionals to help them practice compassion without empathetic distress.
Practitioners are often encouraged to be empathetic and compassionate to improve client-related outcomes and satisfaction. In fact, compassion is considered essential to quality client care. However, there are different outcomes for educators/practitioners own well-being associated with empathy and compassion.
Session objective:
To facilitate an understanding of the distinction between compassion and empathy and the difference choosing compassion as a pathway makes to individual well-being.
Standards of practice:
- Caring and responsive relationships
- Curriculum and pedagogy
- Professionalism and leadership
Presented by Elaine Cook (PhD, Applied Behavioural Psychology)
Date: Monday, May 17, 2021
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
