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Want a one-hour Lunch & Learn? We can do that! 

Dr. Coles presentation style is interactive and engaging, offering fifty-minute CE courses on many topics. He also provides two-hour to two-day seminars.

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• ​Attendees can expect to gain knowledge of how to develop and maintain their personal wellbeing self-care program, which is useful for all healthcare professionals whether they have or have not experienced compassion fatigue, burnout, or substance use disorder.
  
• Attendees will learn about the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and how to differentiate it from burnout. 
  
• They will also learn about tools they can use to decrease the likelihood of succumbing to these conditions and to diminish their effects once they occur.​
  
• Use of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, exercise, and development of a social network to support wellbeing and recovery will be discussed.
  

A typical 2-hour presentation that will include:

• Administration, scoring, evaluation, interpretation, and discussion of the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) measure of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, and burnout
  
• Sharing of my personal compassion fatigue narrative
  
• Review of compassion fatigue and burnout signs
  
• Open discussion of audience members’ symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout
  
• Review of similarities among and differences between:
  
  • ​Compassion fatigue
    
  • Burnout
    
  • Secondary traumatic stress
    
  • Substance use disorder
    
  • Effects of substance use disorder on family, friends, and loved ones of addicts and alcoholics
    

• Describe tools to:
  
  • ​Prevent compassion fatigue
    
  • Treat compassion fatigue
    
  • Enhance personal resiliency
    
  • Fill the personal well of compassion
    
  • Self-regulate and maintain relaxation tone
    
    • ​​Basic understanding of autonomic nervous system
      
      • ​​​Fight or flight versus parasympathetic
        
  • Develop personal support network
    

​​The goal for audience participants is the development of their own personal self-directed compassion fatigue resiliency plan including these aspects:

• Physical
  
• Psychological
  
• Emotional
  
• Spiritual
  
• Professional workplace