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Building vicarious resilience

Explore the dynamics and challenges of working in emotionally demanding roles, and build professional and personal wellbeing strategies to help prevent burnout and encourage resilience and wellbeing for all.

Half day. For your team. Delivered online.

Building vicarious resilience

 

Course overview:

Vicarious resilience is the concept that, with support and encouragement, we can be positively impacted by the emotionally challenging work we do supporting people, and gain a sense of strong satisfaction and reward.

Explore the dynamics and challenges of your role; learn the signs and symptoms of stress, burnout and vicarious trauma; identify how to have helpful wellbeing conversations with colleagues, getting the most from the support available; and build a personal and professional took kit to build individual resilience.

 

Aim(s):

To explore both professional and personal wellbeing strategies that help prevent burnout and encourage resilience and wellbeing for all.

 

Objectives:

By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:

  • Explore the dynamics and challenges of working in emotionally demanding roles
  • Learn the signs and symptoms of stress, burnout and vicarious trauma, identifying strategies to have helpful wellbeing conversations with colleagues
  • Understand the role of the supervisee in getting the most from support available
  • Consider personal nurture, using the 5 ways to wellbeing to build individual resilience
  • Review their own personal and professional resilience took kit, reflecting on what is gained personally and professionally in the work they do

 

Maximum group size: 12

 

Online course – delivered over Zoom.

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Your trainer(s)

Sal Ball

Sal Ball is a mental health practitioner with approaching 30 years’ experience of developing and delivering mental health projects and support groups in the voluntary sector.  She has built an expertise in training and developing good practice for volunteers, frontline staff and specialist mental health professionals in supporting individuals in distress, both remotely and in person.

 

Her areas of specific interest are around supporting those in emotionally demanding roles, including peer-led and grassroots projects, to gain resilience, confidence, and satisfaction from the challenging work they undertake. She has worked extensively in the fields of peer support, trauma, personality disorder, and self-harm.  

 

She is currently developing these skills and interests further working as a Nature Connector and Forest Therapy Practitioner.

Ben Howie

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What people say

"Enriching start to my day! Time for reflection and good to hear from other people as to what they are using to help keep up their resilience at work. Skilfully facilitated and well-paced too."

Course participant, December 2022

"Hearing about other services and what helps us to manage our vicarious resilience. Breathing exercises. Consider exploring supervision options on a regular basis. Helpful space to reflect."

Career Progression Coach, December 2022

"Useful to be reminded of the importance of self-care and speaking with others who do different jobs but also have similar experiences to me. Useful tools and looking forward to receiving the workbook."

Creative Producer, Bristol Music Trust (Bristol Beacon), December 2022

"The explanation of vicarious trauma and resilience was useful. It was helpful to understand what they mean and how they have an impact on people in caring roles. It was beneficial to have time as a team to discuss what impacts on our wellbeing and stress levels at work - it was validating to have an acknowledgement of the amount we carry. Sal was a very engaging and warm person who made it easy to listen and take part."

Course participant, July 2024

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