Buffer Burnout: Compassion Training for Healthcare Providers

About the course

This is a 4-week compassion training programme designed for healthcare professionals seeking evidence-based tools to mitigate psychosocial stress and burnout. The course develops both self directed and relational compassion as core professional capacities rather than optional personal virtues.

Participants are introduced to empirically grounded mechanisms associated with reduced self-criticism, greater emotional balance, strengthened sense of shared humanity, and improved interpersonal responsiveness. Compassion is explored not only as an affective state but as an ethical orientation central to clinical practice.

The course combines scientific theory with practise-based exercises. Each session is 1 hour and 15 minutes. By integrating theory with structured experiential exercises, the programme equips healthcare providers with practical skills to sustain personal wellbeing while enhancing ethically attuned patient care.

Course Content

Session 1:

• Introduction: What is self-compassion? The construct of self-compassion.
• The Neural correlates of compassion versus empathy.
• Outcomes of Self-compassion

Session 2:

• Connecting to the body.
• Why embodiment is important?
• Its role in compassion, connection and avoiding burnout.
• Compassion as a regulation tool – what science shows us.

Session 3:

• Scientific studies showing the outcomes of both self-compassion and loving-kindness meditation.
• Understanding self-compassion in the context of self-criticism attachment and PTSD.

Session 4:

• Generating positive emotions, the broaden and build principle and resilience.
• Understanding self-compassion and interpersonal approach behaviour, and compassion and its link to altruism and pro-social behaviour.

CPD Points = 5 Ethics

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