Self-Care Practitioner

Self-care and combating compassion fatigue are crucial to maintaining high levels of capacity within helping professions, including in education. This course supports helping professionals in examining their own self-care practices, identifying potential markers for compassion fatigue, and focusing on practices and strategies to promote and maintain wellness. Participants are encouraged to practice mindfulness and reflect, with their team, on what is working well and what needs improvement in their educational environment and institution. Starting with ourselves, this module helps participants connect their own wellness to that of their team and ultimately that of those they serve and the overall healing-centered learning environment that each team creates, connecting again to the TREC model of trauma-resilience as a systematized process working toward continuous improvement of the educational model of each team to positively affect outcomes.