Help For The Helpers:
Wellbeing & Compassion Fatigue Education For Animal Welfare Organizations
The Compassion in Balance Program offers flexible, year-round education and resources specifically designed to support the wellbeing of animal welfare and protection professionals.
Help Staff Build Compassion Resilience Skills
Program Outcome #1
Increased Awareness and Competence
Help everyone in your organization recognize the impact of high-stress, trauma-exposed work and understand the organizational policies and individual practices that can support wellbeing at work.
Participants will learn foundational skills such as self-awareness of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to manage stress and increase professional competence and effectiveness.
Program Outcome #2
Increased Healthy Coping Skills
Animal care is emotionally challenging work. Participants will learn skills to better navigate intense emotions, reduce reactivity, build healthy boundaries, recover with self-care, and support their staff.
These are critical skills for every member of your organization to learn and practice, so that you can continue to offer compassionate care in your community.
Program Outcome #3
Increased Supportive Connections
Social support is strengthened and conflict is reduced through team activities designed to help coworkers and departments build trust, understanding, appreciation, and shared resilience skills.
Managers learn trauma-informed supervision skills to increase the effectiveness of staff support and to create a more compassionate, humane culture within your organization.
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
- Jack Kornfield
What's Included?
The CiB Program includes 3 main components that can be used in various ways to support your group:
Comprehensive Resource Library
A regularly updated, in-depth library.
This unique resource hub is filled with "just-in-time" micro-lessons addressing the unique challenges of animal welfare work.
Staff at all levels, including leadership, can find what they need when they need it, no prerequisites required.
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Why Choose CiB?
The CiB Program provides year round, on-demand compassion fatigue education and support for every team member, from your animal care attendants to your medical director to your volunteer coordinator.