Sharise Nance

When Helping Hurts: Understanding the Impact of Compassion Fatigue is a 1-3 hour workshop designed to raise awareness about the cyclical impact of secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout on helping and healthcare professionals. This workshop will provide a safe space to explore how ongoing exposure to others' suffering can lead to emotional exhaustion and diminished empathy, culminating in burnout if not addressed. Participants will learn strategies to stay present with those they serve while managing in-the-moment trauma responses, moral injury, and the cumulative impact of trauma. They will also gain tools for self-care, setting healthy boundaries, and building resilience. The goal is to empower helping professionals to provide care from a place of renewed compassion and well-being, ensuring their capacity to serve effectively and sustainably.

Tolerating the Uncertainties of Workplace Changes, Transitions, and Losses is a 2 hour interactive workshop designed to bring awareness to the impact of personal and professional grief in the workplace, offer a safe space for staff to process thoughts, feelings and beliefs around change, transition and loss, and identify in the moment and long term adaptive coping strategies to tolerate these challenges.

Beyond the Blues: Understanding the Impact of Mental Health and Mental Illness workshop is an overview designed to offer a safe space while bringing awareness to the stigma around mental illness. Participants will learn the common signs and symptoms of mental illness, normalize the conversations around mental health, and explore ways to seek help and offer support to those who are in need of services.