Online Course – Starts 10/21/24 – Compassion Fatigue Strategies Plus – University of Florida – Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program (fee applies)

Today’s animal welfare and veterinary medical professionals are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for animals, people, and the organizations that heal, connect, and protect them. If that’s you, it’s easy to feel like nothing you do is ever good enough. The work feels never-ending. Taking care of your own needs might seem impossible.

Transforming empathic distress (aka compassion fatigue) is absolutely possible for you and your staff. That’s why the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida is once again offering its Compassion Fatigue Strategies online course with certified compassion fatigue educator Jessica Dolce.

This course will help you recognize signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious trauma, learn how to reduce stress injury, increase your self-care and team-care practices, build compassion satisfaction, restore resiliency, and make successful changes in your life and in your organization.

By the end of class you’ll:

• Have 6 strategies to help you do the work you love, without being sidelined by compassion fatigue and burnout, so that you can feel energized and happy again
• Know which self-care and stress management practices work for you
• Have a personal mission statement so that you can feel clear about why you do this work even when it’s challenging
• Have clear and manageable goals, so that you can make lasting changes in your sleep, diet, friendships, or anything else that really matters to you
• Feel comfortable using super simple meditation practices, so that you can restore your balance
• Clearly understand how and when to get professional mental health help, without shame
• Know how to collaborate with your staff and coworkers on these issues so that you can all benefit from what you learned in the course

Regular individual registration is $349 per person through October 21st, 2024.

Bring the whole team for a 10% discount on groups of 10 or more.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://sheltermedicine.vetmed.ufl.edu/education/continuing-education/compassion-fatigue-strategies/