Building Resilience in the Face of Collective Trauma: From Empathic Distress to Compassion

This is a 2 hour On Demand Webinar. Access information, resources and CEU information will be available shortly after registration and registrants will be given unlimited access to the recording for a full year.

This webinar was broadcasted live on October 20, 2022 as part of the Collective Trauma Conference

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Mindfulness and compassion practices are powerful tools for both psychotherapists and their clients. These practices help us maintain therapeutic presence when facing difficult emotions, keep perspective on our reactions, and stay empathically attuned. They can also help clients develop the affect tolerance and metacognitive awareness needed to integrate and work with collective trauma experiences.

But these mindfulness and compassion techniques are not one-size-fits-all remedies. Extensive scientific research has revealed that it matters what we practice.

Using insights from Dr. Tania Singer’s ‘ReSource Project’, this workshop will explore the various effects of techniques designed to cultivate presence, perspective-taking, empathy and compassion, and attunement. You will learn which practices to use under which circumstances yourself, both inside and outside the clinical hour.

And using insights from social neuroscience, we will examine how to balance empathy, compassion, self-compassion, and mindfulness practices. The goal here is to optimize therapeutic presence and avoid being overwhelmed by powerful emotions such as empathic distress or burnout.

At the conclusion of this workshop, attendees will be better able to:

  • Mindfulness and compassion practices are powerful tools for both psychotherapists and their clients. These practices help us maintain therapeutic presence when facing difficult emotions, keep perspective on our reactions, and stay empathically attuned. They can also help clients develop the affect tolerance and metacognitive awareness needed to integrate and work with collective trauma experiences.
  • But these mindfulness and compassion techniques are not one-size-fits-all remedies. Extensive scientific research has revealed that it matters what we practice.
  • Using insights from Dr. Tania Singer’s ‘ReSource Project’, this workshop will explore the various effects of techniques designed to cultivate presence, perspective-taking, empathy and compassion, and attunement. You will learn which practices to use under which circumstances yourself, both inside and outside the clinical hour.
  • And using insights from social neuroscience, we will examine how to balance empathy, compassion, self-compassion, and mindfulness practices. The goal here is to optimize therapeutic presence and avoid being overwhelmed by powerful emotions such as empathic distress or burnout.

Ronald Siegel, PsyD, is part-time Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School for over 35 years and a long-time student of mindfulness meditation.

Ron serves on the Board of Directors and faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. He also teaches internationally about mind-body medicine and the application of mindfulness and compassion practices in psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and other fields.

Dr. Siegel has edited and written several books, including the critically acclaimed professional text Mindfulness and Psychotherapy (2nd Edition), a comprehensive guide for general audiences. He also authored several professional guides, including:

  • The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems;
  • Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy; and
  • Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy.

Ronald Siegel’s step-by-step self-treatment guide Back Sense integrates mindfulness practice, aggressive rehabilitation, and mind-body approaches to treat chronic back and neck pain.

Prof. Dr. Tania Singer is a social neuroscientist and psychologist and world expert on empathy and compassion. She has a passion for creating bridges between fields that typically never interact such as linking neuroscience with economics, science with arts or science with spirituality.

Learning from contemplative traditions from the East, she has initiated and headed one of the largest meditation-based secular mental training studies on compassion, the ReSource project. Linking such findings to the field of economics, she developed a “caring economics” approach, developing new models of economy based on care and social cohesion.

Throughout her life she has explored how inner change can bring about societal change putting science in the service of societal transformation.

TimeTopic Covered
1st hour
  • The structure and function of mindfulness and compassion practices; The outline of and discoveries stemming from The Resource Project
2nd hour
  • Differences between Empathy and Compassion; How to generate compassion in clinical encounters; Tailoring mindfulness and compassion practices to the needs of individuals

This training offers 2 hours of direct contact (not counting breaks or lunch). It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards/regulatory body to verify CE requirements for their license to practice.

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  • Name of Participant
  • Title of Training
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  • Number of hours of training
  • Date of training
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US Continuing Education Information

ON-DEMAND VERSION 

This professional continuing education activity was sponsored by Praxis Continuing Education and Training and co-sponsored by Leading Edge Seminars. Praxis Continuing Education and Training, who has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the organizations listed below, maintains responsibility for the educational activity offered and for following the standards and regulations for the organizations listed below. This non-live on-demand activity is approved for 2 CE hours.

No partial credit will be awarded. At the end of the workshop, Leading Edge Seminars will provide attendees with an instruction sheet on how to complete the online evaluation and how to print your CE certificate of completion. You will be required to pass a post test with a score of 80% or higher.  You will be able to complete this process immediately after the conclusion of the activity.

Praxis CET maintains responsibility for the program with the CE approvals outlined below:

Joint Accreditation: In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc and Leading Edge Seminars. Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 2 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

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Course launch date: 9/8/2022

Next course review/expire date: 9/8/2025

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There is no commercial support for this activity.

None of the planners or presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This training is aimed at all mental health professionals, including:

  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Clinical and Counselling Psychologists
  • Psychiatric Social Workers
  • Pastoral Counsellors
  • Psychotherapists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Physicians
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Counsellors
  • Graduate Students in Accredited Programs in the Above Fields
  • case managers
  • licensed professional counsellors
  • all other professionals who would like to develop, update or expand their skills and knowledge in mental health practices

This course is an intermediate-advanced level.

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