I had it hammered into me during training as a crisis supporter and I still burnt out.
Now I train others, have seen it hammered into them and still watch countless of them burn out.
I think we need to switch at least 60% of compassion fatigue focus to compassion satisfaction.
Compassion satisfaction is the warm feeling you receive when you give something meaningful to someone, if you’re ‘doing good work’ I think that feeling (and its absence) ought to be spoken about much more.
Compassion fatigue should be focused on less.
I had it hammered into me during training as a crisis supporter and I still burnt out.
Now I train others, have seen it hammered into them and still watch countless of them burn out.
I think we need to switch at least 60% of compassion fatigue focus to compassion satisfaction.
Compassion satisfaction is the warm feeling you receive when you give something meaningful to someone, if you’re ‘doing good work’ I think that feeling (and its absence) ought to be spoken about much more.