Compassion In Medicine—Meeting Suffering With Kindness For Ourselves And Our Patients

Date: 21 October, Wednesday | Time: 09:00 - 12:00 | Venue: Academia Room, L1-S1

Speakers: Dr Tanya Tierney & Dr Virginia Lien 

Programme Description: 

How can we care for others effectively without losing ourselves? Join us for a 3-hour workshop to cultivate compassion and self-compassion for healthcare professionals in caring roles. Understand how the practice of mindfulness, compassion and self-compassion can mitigate empathy-fatigue, and transform our caring for others into an experience of satisfaction and flourishing. This workshop is an introduction to —Flourishing in Medicine: which addresses the practical well-being of the clinician and healthcare team, with the intention of improving the quality of care and quality of caring for patients and their families.

Learning Outcome:

A working knowledge of compassion and self-compassion applied to healthcare professionals in active clinical roles.
Introducing concepts and practices for greater self-awareness and kindness to self—as a prerequisite for kindness to others, in order to flourish in one’s chosen healthcare profession.
Measurement: Self-Compassion Scale (Kristen Neff)—self-administered

Target Audience:

Healthcare professionals including healthcare students.
Requisite: experience of working with patients as a professional or healthcare student
No prior knowledge of the topic is required.

Maximum number of participants: 30