Monash University
4-week facilitated period (course access for up to 3 months)
This award-winning course teaches healthcare workers strategies to enhance and strengthen compassion, avoid empathic distress, improve wellbeing, and foster more caring and compassionate workplaces.
This course is ideal for healthcare professionals/students and anyone working in community and social services roles.
Week 1: Introducing compassion - What is compassion and why does it matter, the science of compassion, transforming empathy into compassion, practice staying out of empathic distress. Week 2: Barriers to compassion - Compassion can be easily disrupted, explore reasons for not getting to compassion, mindfulness in healthcare, caring for self, caring for others. Week 3: Common humanity - The importance of common humanity, the five moments of compassion, forgiveness, gratitude and social connections, creating compassionate workplaces. Week 4: Sustaining compassion - Compassion in our daily lives, tips to help sustain compassion, values, ethics and intention.
Monash University is a leading global university with a strong reputation for excellence in healthcare education. This course has been developed by experts in the field of compassion research and mindfulness, and has been embedded in two medical degrees, demonstrating its credibility and impact.
This course will equip healthcare workers with the knowledge and strategies to enhance their compassion, avoid empathic distress, improve their own wellbeing, and foster more caring and compassionate workplaces. This can lead to better patient outcomes, increased job satisfaction, and greater resilience in the face of the challenges of healthcare work.
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