Empathy Fatigue

Learn how to use compassion to sustain your energy and avoid empathy fatigue.

Following on from the upheaval of the global pandemic, layered with recent climate crises, political tension and war, many teams are currently experiencing a new level of fatigue in workplaces. It's quite likely that our emotional 'tanks' are already running low during this prolonged period of change and uncertainty where self-care and wellbeing practices can easily slip. So, when leaders and team players engage in feeling another person's pain, stress, or anxiety during a challenging time - it can deplete their reserves and lead to a phenomenon known as empathic distress fatigue.

Demonstrating empathy - essentially feeling what another person is feeling - can drain our own emotional reserves. These reserves are limited, and require renewal through our proactive wellbeing and self-care strategies, such as taking breaks, expressing gratitude, and eating and sleeping well.

Participants learn how to:

Discuss the difference between empathy and compassion
Discover how developing compassion can reduce empathy fatigue
Develop practical strategies and actionable practices to increase your compassion

For all staff and volunteers interested in how to cultivate compassion and navigate empathy fatigue as an aged care worker.

Facilitated by James Mathison, The Oranges Toolkit

The Oranges Toolkit was born out of Camp Quality, Australia's most trusted childhood cancer charity. Working with world-leading consultants, the ORANGES program was originally designed to build optimism, positivity and resilience amongst staff and volunteers, to help them embrace change and adversity.

Please note: registration is open to aged care providers who deliver CHSP services. If your organisation does not provide a CHSP service your registration will be reviewed.

This workshop is funded by The Department of Health and Aged Care. Registration for this event is free for CHSP Service Providers. In the event that you need to cancel please advise in writing via email to sectorsupport@mdservices.com.au.