Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Seminars 

Workshops designed to assist individuals and organisations in the mental health and related helping fields to create safety, mitigate stress, combat burnout and avoid vicarious trauma. Delivering practical strategies, professionals can implement while on shift, with coworkers, and in their personal lives. All techniques are highly effective therapeutic approaches that can also be applied when working with clients in a therapeutic setting. 

 

 

Empowering the Helping Professional | Compass Seminars AUS
COMING in 2027

EMPOWERING the HELPING PROFESSIONAL

  • 3 Jun 2027
  • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • The Glen Hotel, 24 Gaskell St, Eight Mile Plains, Queensland, 4113
Go Deep without Drowning | Compass Seminars AUS
IN-HOUSE TRAINING

GO DEEP without DROWNING | In-house Training

  • 1 Jan 2028
  • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Your Location
Empowering the Helping Professional | Compass Seminars AUS
IN-HOUSE TRAINING

EMPOWERING the HELPING PROFESSIONAL | In-house Training

  • 1 Jan 2028
  • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Your location
For practical strategies on recognising the stages of burnout before they take hold, see managing stress and burnout in helping professions.

Commonly Asked Questions

Working with people who are experiencing or have previously experienced mental illness, abuse and trauma means that practitioners and helping professionals often respond to complex and challenging situations.

Taking a trauma-informed approach means we must also recognise the impacts on ourselves as practitioners (and co-workers) of continuously responding to stressful events and behaviours.

This may result in experiences of burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, distress, dissatisfaction, hopelessness, ethical dilemmas and mental or physical health problems.

This is an important occupational health and safety issue for organisations and professionals, and should be addressed through a range of strategies and policies to achieve a mentally healthy workplace.

'Burnout' describes prolonged physical and psychological exhaustion, often in a workplace.

The effects of burnout vary from person to person. For some people, there may be a wide range of signs and symptoms, while others may experience problems in one particular area of their lives. Some consider leaving their job due to burnout.

Common signs of burnout:

  • Physical and emotional stress
  • Low job satisfaction
  • Feeling frustrated by or judgemental of clients
  • Feeling under pressure, powerless and overwhelmed
  • Not taking breaks, eating on the run
  • Unable to properly refuel and regenerate
  • Frequent sick days or mental health days
  • Irritability and anger

'Vicarious trauma' describes the cumulative effects of exposure to information about traumatic events and experiences, potentially leading to distress, dissatisfaction, hopelessness and serious mental and physical health problems.

The effects of vicarious trauma vary from person to person. For some people, there may be a wide range of signs and symptoms, while others may experience problems in one particular area of their lives.

Common signs of vicarious trauma:

  • Difficulty leaving work at the end of the day, noticing you can never leave on time
  • Taking on too great a sense of responsibility or feeling you need to overstep the boundaries of your role
  • Frustration, fear, anxiety, irritability
  • Intrusive thoughts of a client's situation or distress
  • Disturbed sleep, nightmares, racing thoughts
  • Problems managing personal boundaries
  • Loss of connection with self and others, loss of a sense of own identity
  • Increased time alone, a sense of needing to withdraw from others
  • Increased need to control events, outcomes, others
  • Loss of pleasure in daily activities

Mental health and education professionals at all levels, and any professional including those in the broader helping roles.

Mental Health Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to, psychiatrists, psychologists, play therapists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, child protection and disability workers, guidance officers, residential care workers, foster support workers, grief counsellors, domestic violence workers, and all other mental health professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.

Education Professionals: Professionals who work with children or youth including, but not limited to, K-12 school counsellors, school paraprofessionals, principals, teachers and teacher aides.

Yes, we can send one of our trainers to your workplace.

For more details, please contact us.

Payment can be made by:

  1. Bank transfer (invoice)
  2. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards (fee free)

Group discounts are available.