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Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue & Emotional Wellbeing training

Professionals supporting children, families, vulnerable adults, and people experiencing trauma, adversity, or crisis are regularly exposed to distressing situations and emotional pressure. Over time, this can affect wellbeing, resilience, confidence, and professional judgement.

Drawing on our experience delivering Trauma Informed Practice programmes, we have developed this practical one-day course to help frontline practitioners understand the emotional impact of their work and strengthen wellbeing and resilience.

The training explores the emotional and physiological impact of working with trauma and distress and helps practitioners recognise the signs and effects of vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, burnout, and moral injury.

The programme combines theory, reflection, practical activities, and simple regulation strategies to help practitioners protect their wellbeing and continue working effectively in demanding services.

Participants consistently describe the training as engaging, supportive, thought-provoking, and immediately applicable to practice.

This one-day course can be adapted to reflect your organisation, workforce pressures, and practice environment.

The course will cover:

  • Understanding the emotional impact of working with trauma, adversity, and distress
  • The importance of self-regulation when working with individuals and families experiencing crisis or trauma
  • Emotional contagion theory and how emotions can transfer within teams and practice environments
  • The differences and similarities between:
    • Vicarious trauma
    • Secondary trauma
    • Compassion fatigue
    • Moral injury
    • Burnout
  • How these experiences can affect practitioners emotionally, physically, and professionally
  • Recognising signs of stress, overload, and emotional exhaustion
  • Practical strategies to strengthen resilience and reduce the impact of emotional pressure
  • Reflective support, psychologically safe teams, and supportive workplace cultures
  • Grounding strategies and body-based regulation activities
  • All courses are offered on a Face to Face or Virtual basis.
  • Bespoke & Open Training Courses Available.

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Cancellation Policy

We are very flexible and will do our utmost to rearrange training should the need arise, but our trainers obviously commit themselves to the training days agreed and so if you need to cancel at short notice we will need to charge a cancellation fee to cover their time. 

Please see our cancellation terms / fees.

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