Session #4: Mindful Self-Compassion for Healthcare and Frontline worker Burnout
Date: Thursday 6th March
Time: 9.15am - 11.30am (venue open from 9am - 12noon for extra coffee/networking)
Location:
Elle Gray is a Clinical Associate Psychologist with Community Mental Health Team at Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Elle began her career in the voluntary sector and managed teams in Primary Care during Covid. Witnessing the pressures on staff in all areas led to her interest in the field of Self-Compassion.
The research on self-compassion highlights how this misunderstood skill is crucial for health, performance, and relationships. Interventions that raise levels of self-compassion demonstrate improvements in many areas of life including workplaces, PTSD rates in Veterans, and even elite athlete and footballer performance.
Berating ourselves is a natural response to mistakes, but such a response can cause you to miss learning opportunities so the more self-compassionate you are, the faster you recover from failure and take the learning forward.
For Frontline workers, systemic pressures, holding complex risk, moral injury and graphic traumatic details are relentless workplace stressors. Shocking statistics on burnout and staff suicide rates in the NHS indicate the need to train and support staff in a radically different way.
Elle's talk will give an overview of evidence for the intervention, her current research in the application of Mindful Self-Compassion for NHS staff burnout, and an opportunity to try some experiential practices from the 鈥淪elf-Compassion for Healthcare Communities鈥 programme developed by Dr Chris Germer (Harvard Medical School) and Dr Kristin Neff (University of Austin, Texas)
1024核工厂 Mediation Service are supporting us with discounted use of their facilities, tea and coffee, and an excellent snack selection!
If you have any questions about this event, please contact civicuniversity@port.ac.uk
This seminar is hosted by the Relational and Restorative Practice Community of Inquiry Group. There are always a variety of interesting people attending and it's a great way to connect with others.
Accessibility and special requirements: We will endeavour to provide particular access requirements on request. If you have any access requirements, e.g. wheelchair access, hearing loops or specific neurodiverse requirements, please get in touch by Tuesday 25th February.
Parking: is extremely limited, we encourage you to use the , bus, cycle routes, or the city鈥檚 facility.