Each training consists of a short video (5-8 minutes) you'll watch together, a worksheet, group discussion questions, and takeaway actions steps. 

The sessions are designed for small groups and last one hour. If you're using the materials with a larger group, you may need more time. 

There are detailed planning and facilitator workbooks provided to help you use these materials with your groups.

1. Pumping the Brakes on Stress. Learn how to recognize different responses to stress on your team, identify triggers, and reduce reactivity.
2. Building an Optimistic Outlook. Learn how to recognize and reframe negative thoughts to reduce stress, increase compassion satisfaction, and build realistic optimism with your team.
3. Coping with Difficult Emotions. Learn how to use zone of control thinking, active coping skills, and peer debriefing, to help create a more supportive team.
4. Increasing Recognition and Appreciation. Learn how to foster gratitude, appreciation, and recognition to celebrate the efforts of your team and increase trust.
5. Using Constructive Communication. Learn how to understand upsets, actively listen to reduce misunderstandings, and communicate respectfully, even in difficult conversations.
6. Building a Compassionate Badassery Team. Learn how to create a team culture agreement, helping your staff stay connected to their values and mission.

You do, with the materials provided. 

Jessica has created very structured materials, including a facilitator's guidebook, to help you use these trainings with your teams. 

In order for this to work, your organization must have someone on staff or a volunteer who is willing to lead the trainings. Ideally, this person is calm, caring, and comfortable with guiding conversations. 

This is an ideal role for someone like a veterinary social worker!

Depending on the size of your organization you may need more than one facilitator. 

Not exactly. The team trainings are focused on building compassion satisfaction and emotional intelligence at work. This can help reduce compassion fatigue, but the trainings do not explicitly teach compassion fatigue concepts.

The trainings are a good fit for staff who are already familiar with compassion fatigue basics (from the Self Study Course) or if you have a facilitator who can address questions about compassion fatigue that may come up.  

If you would prefer to focus on compassion fatigue education or self-care first, start with the Self Study course and use the group discussion guide to make it a team experience.

Start any time! The team trainings are available on-demand and you will be granted access to all 6 immediately. You do not need to be online at specific times.

Everything is recorded and you can implement the trainings when it works for your teams. 

Each training is one hour long. There are 6 trainings in total. 

Depending on the size of your teams and number of facilitators available, you may wish to schedule one training bi-weekly, monthly, or every other month. 

The trainings work well as a lunch-and-learn or as material for in-service learning days. 

You have access to the materials for a full year. 

No, the Team Trainings is one part of The CiB Program and cannot be purchased as a standalone product.*

*Exception for current clients:

If your organization has previously purchased the Team Trainings and would like to extend access, please contact Jessica: [email protected]