‘Whittlesea Community Connections – August 19, 2022’.

It was an absolute pleasure presenting our Self-Care workshop to 30 volunteers for Whittlesea Community Connections on Friday the 19th of August, 2022. It was such an honour to support a wonderful cohort of heart centred people.

The workshop helped them Identify what resources and supports nourish them to do the incredible work they do and identify what are the main triggers/stressors that are challenging and depleting.

We introduced our framework that helps protect workers/volunteers when working with daily crisis and emergency situations and ensure they are working within their emotional window of health and wellbeing. We provided interventions that support workers/volunteers to reset, regenerate and build resilience.

The workshop was filled with individual and group activities that helped them create a take home self-care plan with daily strategies and self-care interventions that can be implemented to prevent compassion fatigue, burnout and ensure they are working in healthier and more sustainable ways.