We cannot care for others unless we first care for ourselves, and we cannot listen to another if we do not first learn how to listen to ourselves. So many of us feel overwhelmed, depleted, and even burned out these days but taking care of ourselves can feel difficult, especially for those of us in roles that prioritize caring for others like parents, healthcare workers, social service providers, teachers…the list goes on. In this session we will talk about the limits of compassion, what leads to burnout, how to set healthy boundaries, and the importance of rest. We’ll also share tools for creating your own personal self care plan and daily practices for preventing compassion fatigue and burnout long term.   

What We’ll Cover:

• The limits of compassion
• How to identify compassion fatigue and burnout
• How to set compassionate boundaries 
• Self care practices and boundary setting for caretaking roles like healthcare workers, parents, and eldercare
• How to build a personal self care plan

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About Our Rates

JUST Listening offers our services on a sliding scale as an intentional effort to distribute resources equitably between individuals & organizations, regardless of annual budget and income level. We aim to support and strengthen social benefit and strategic movement-building work. Paying at the higher end of the scale the Redistribution rate makes it possible for JUST Listening to work with those with limited income at little to no cost to them and supports volunteer programming for individuals experiencing deep poverty and/or incarceration.