Upcoming Compassion Fatigue Train the Trainer Workshops in 2009

A two-day intensive retreat with Françoise Mathieu, M.Ed., CCC.
Certified Counsellor, Compassion Fatigue Specialist, Director of WHP
Next workshop dates: November 24-25, 2009


Location: Donald Gordon Conference Centre Kingston, On.
A beautiful location and great food. A nice starting point for a two day intensive retreat to become (or hone your skills as) a compassion fatigue trainer.
*Limited to a maximum of 20 participant*
Certificates of Completion will be provided

Cost (includes lunch and morning and afternoon breaks): $598.00 CND including gst. This fee covers cost of materials including training manuals and handout templates.

To reserve a spot you must send a $100 non-refundable deposit along with your registration form.

Prerequisites
This workshop is aimed at helping professionals and educators in the helping fields. No prior Compassion Fatigue training is required but a basic working knowledge of the topic would be best (by reading some of the recommended materials ahead of time).

Workshop Description

Some past participants of our one day Compassion Fatigue workshop (Walking the Walk) expressed an interest in receiving help in designing a workshop to bring back to their communities and developing skills and knowledge base to deliver compassion fatigue workshops themselves. This train the trainer workshop offers tools, handouts, strategies, training material and marketing strategies to adapt Walking the Walk to your community's specific needs (and to your own presentation style). You do not need to have attended WtheW in the past to benefit from this training.

Because of the small size of the group, we will customize certain aspects of the training to your specific needs. A questionnaire will be sent ahead of time to establish your needs/goals and objectives and aim to fulfill as many of these as possible.

Day one will be experiential (you will participate in a one day CF workshop) and Day two will discuss tools, strategies and techniques to develop and deliver the workshops on your own and become a CF educator and trainer.

What differentiates this workshop from other educational sessions out there is the extra layer of understanding and validation that we hope to convey to our workshop participants. Therefore, the train the trainer workshop is designed to take you deep first, to gain a true and thorough understanding of your own relationship to CF. Then we go into the didactic details (what to teach, how to teach) and finally talk about the mechanics of the whole process (how to customize this for your own work needs/goals etc.).

For more information, visit our website or email me: whp at cogeco.ca