Building Resilience in the Face of Collective Trauma: From Empathic Distress to Compassion with Ronald Siegel and Tania Singer

Led by Ron Siegel and Tania Singer

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

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.

This training offers 3 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.

For Attendees of On Demand/Recorded Version

If you cannot verify 100% attendance of the Live Broadcast or if you are watching the On Demand/recorded version of this webinar, you will need to complete a Post-Webinar Quiz with a pass of at least 80% in order to verify your attendance. 

For Canadian and International participants

Upon fulfillment of the above requirements, Canadian and international participants will be issued a Certificate of Participation which features:

• Name of Participant
• Title of Training
• Name of Presenter plus their credentials
• Number of hours of training
• Date of training
• Confirmation that you have passed a quiz with at least 80% grade to verify your attendance

Please check carefully with your regulating body/organization that this certificate is sufficient proof for you to claim CEUs.

For general information about Continuing Education for Canadians and International participants, please click here.  

For US CE Information please click here.

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

What level of knowledge the attendee should have in this topic?
– Intermediate/Advanced