CARE is a FREE mindfulness-based program for frontline staff, caregivers, and healthcare providers. This six-week mental health and mindfulness program is designed to help develop and sustain emotional well-being by learning coping skills and developing strategies to deal with difficult situations and feelings of isolation.    

Empathic Strain (Compassion Fatigue) - June 19, 2025

Navigating Therapist Burnout and Client Care with ACT

In this full-day workshop, participants will explore their understanding of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) by applying its principles to both their clients and themselves. Participants will explore the psychological struggles that therapists face, including distress, fatigue, and burnout, and examine how ACT’s psychological flexibility processes can provide relief.

Take ACTion: Cultivating Psychological Flexibility for Both Therapist and Client

This webinar will explore how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can be applied not only to help clients but also to support therapists in their own emotional well-being. By fostering psychological flexibility, therapists can recognize and address their own struggles and pain, which can lead to distress or possibly burnout.

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Trauma-Informed Leadership

A compassionate and trauma-informed approach to leadership is essential for creating healthy workplace cultures. Trauma is prevalent in our world and has an impact on many of the people we interact with, including staff and colleagues. This session explores how to lead with a trauma-informed approach and provides key insights for increasing psychological safety and creating greater resilience for all parts of an organization.

Embracing Wholeness: A Holistic Exploration of Burnout

Join us for an insightful session as we delve into the complex realm of burnout and explore a holistic approach to wellbeing using the Medicine Wheel. In today's fast-paced world, burnout is a prevalent issue that affects individuals across various aspects of their lives. This webinar offers a unique perspective, drawing inspiration from the Medicine Wheel's holistic framework to address burnout.

This webinar is free for all to attend!

Caring for yourself is one of the most important things you can do as a caregiver. But often, caregivers prioritize the needs of others over their own. In this webinar by the Ontario Caregiver Organization, Laura Jackson, a registered nurse and healthcare leader will identify ways to care for yourself. You will learn:
• The art and science of self-compassion and how to cultivate it in your life
• Tips for making and developing your own routine to practice self-compassion and mindfulness
• How to foster boundaries as a caregiver without guilt, anger, and resentment

When the personal is professional: Understanding and addressing vicarious trauma

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Live webinar: May 27, 2022 |10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST

Facilitator: Bo Yih Thom, MSW, RSW

We pay an emotional price for doing the work that we do: Some of us hear difficult stories daily and are frequently exposed to traumatic details from the cases we are working on. We are also not always able to help everyone who comes to us for help - the demand often outweighs what we can offer. What is the impact of this work on our own emotional well-being, on our personal life?

Vicarious trauma is a common experience among medical professionals, mental health professions, direct service workers and advocates however, it is not easy to identify and deal with it's many manifestations.

This Friday (Feb 7), take an in-depth look at vicarious trauma, and countertransference, contributing factors in its development, manifestations on a personal and professional level along with resiliency-based strategies to address it with Bo Yih Thom, MSW., RSW., in the workshop When the Personal is Professional: Understanding and addressing vicarious trauma.

Presented by:  Harry Zeit MD and Irina Dumitrache CYT 

Speakers:  Harry Zeit MD and Irina Dumitrache CYT 

In the field of clinician wellness and health, other than self-care, no term has been as utilized – and perhaps of late demonized – than resilience. We know that resilience is important. We may carry some ideas and pre-conceptions of what it means to be resilient. Yet of late, on social media and in medical blogs, more and more physicians note that the word carries connotations of blame and associations with systems that exploit and abuse.