Countering Compassion Fatigue with Self-Care with Darryl Connelly, Kaiwhakamatau Hinengaro - Psychologist

Recognising that supporting tamariki who are dysregulated, grieving, or anxious carries a personal cost, this webiinar equips educational professionals with tools to combat compassion fatigue. It provides clear psychoeducation to help educators distinguish compassion fatigue—the physical and emotional exhaustion caused by the chronic use of empathy—from burnout, secondary traumatic stress, empathic distress and protective compassion satisfaction, explaining how unregulated empathy can tip into painful "empathic distress fatigue".

RTLB will learn to identify their own physical, behavioural, and emotional warning signs—including modern digital stressors such as compulsively "doomscrolling" negative education-related news—and to audit personal and organisational risk and protective factors. Anchored in Aotearoa, the session establishes a shared language for well-being by leveraging Sir Mason Durie's Te Whare Tapa Whā model and Pulotu-Endemann's Fonofale Model of Health, while integrating protective cultural factors such as whanaungatanga and personal faith.

Educators will gain a rich set of practical self-care strategies focused on Stephen Covey's…