HSABC Webinar: When Caring Hurts- Vicarious Trauma - Organizational Approaches
June 19, 2024, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
This workshop builds on when caring hurts vicarious trauma, exploring the impact of working in a helping profession. This workshop helps supervisors managers and administrators explore different ways to reduce vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue incidents within your organization.
Amanda Thiessen is a social worker, educator, and coach who works with Human Service Organizations to help employees and cultures thrive. Amanda believes creating just social change is intimately linked to inclusive, collaborative, effective and empowered organizational systems, people and cultures. Amanda has worked in the charity sector for over 20 years. She is a certified organizational coach, holds a Master of Arts degree in Theology, and is a registered social worker in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Currently she is completing a Master of Social Worker in Leadership in Human Services at the University of Calgary.