Caring for You While Caring for the Client: A Workshop on Compassion

The OCASI Mental Health Promotion Project (MHP) invites you to the upcoming workshop: Caring for You While Caring for the Client. A Workshop on Compassion.

Social service workers often experience the dual challenge of extending compassion to their clients while managing their own stress and emotional well-being. Using experiential learning, this workshop aims to address these interconnected needs holistically. The workshop offers practical tools and techniques designed to balance the expression of compassion for oneself and for others. It aims to introduce participants to the skills they need for an emotionally sustainable work-life, grounded in their own innate human capacity for compassion.

The two-hour session is divided into two main components:

Part 1 - The Compassionate Self: The first part of the workshop focuses on self-compassion, a crucial yet often overlooked element for professionals in emotionally demanding roles. Participants will learn practical techniques to cultivate self-compassion, understand its necessity, and develop a sustainable self-care routine.

Part 2 - Compassion for Clients: The second hour explores effective methods for extending compassion to clients without experiencing emotional exhaustion. It provides strategies for setting healthy boundaries while maintaining a strong connection with those in your care.

Facilitators:

• Tsering Somo: Director of Employment and Training programs for YWCA Toronto. She has 30+ years of experience working for community and not-for-profit organizations in Canada and internationally in strategic and operational planning and program management.
• Dan D'Agostino:  certified as a teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) in 2019, Dan is currently working for the Compassion Institute as a Coach for the CCT Teacher Training program. 

If you have any questions, please contact Caley Cross at ccross@ocasi.org