Join Pat’s workshops for an informative, motivational, and “take-action” experience. Choose from public or private workshops, full day/half-day, evenings and Sundays available. All are welcome!

• What’s happening? Who is affected? To what degree?
• What do you need to know to understand the issues?
• How do you move to wellness and resilience?
• Self Care and self appraisal
• Proactive action plan for the individual and the organization
• Pat’s workshops and website will provide…

Along with Pat’s new website, animal care workers will experience Pat’s unique approach to understanding the subtle yet powerful impact compassion fatigue can have on the animal care community. The website will soon have an interactive professional development component with Pat’s blog, and a member’s Newsletter

Through a reflective and experiential process, this site and her workshops, help capture the essence of the burdens that compassion places on these caregivers and the cost it extracts from them. Specialized strategies and techniques for managing these burdens will be discussed. Participants will leave with a self care action plan and a host of reference materials.

Shelters are invited to bring their workers as a group and strategize together or Pat can visit your shelter for a private presentation.

This workshop would be helpful for anyone who is involved in animal care or animal protection and feels the stress and strains of their daily dedication to animals.

• Shelter staff
• Field Workers and Officers
• Administrators
• Shelter Managers/Board Members
• Animal Care Volunteers
• Veterinary Technicians
• Wildlife Rehabilitators
• Animal Welfare Advocates

Peer Support

• Discuss and reflect with fellow workers, what is really happening in the field. What are the costs for caring? What are the rewards for caring? Join the newsletter!

Understanding

• Learn more about the symptoms and signs leading to burnout and compassion fatigue. Find out if you, personally, are highly stressed through self reporting inventories and reflective exercises.
• Define and discuss factors that contribute to burnout and compassion fatigue.
• Explore strategies to enhance wellness and resiliency.
• Explore a host of reference materials.

Tools For Action

• Apersonal assessment of how stress and compassion fatigue are impacting you, your colleagues, and your workplace.
• A stressbuster kit will be distributed.
• Develop apersonalized self care action plan.
• Set goals and an action plan for organizational support.
• Pat invites you to take a several self reported inventories to test the waters of the three stress factors: Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout. It is recommended that the inventories be completed before the workshop.