How Can We Be Helpful If We Aren’t “Feeling It”? – Six Fundamental Skills for Effective and Compassionate Helping

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This presentation was part of the 5th Annual Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit.

Brief Description:

Crisis response work can have an adverse impact on one’s personal and professional well-being, as well as on professional effectiveness. Utilizing a unique blend of presentation, topic-specific live music and space for reflection, this workshop examines the emotional impact of this work and highlights strategies for maintaining personal and professional resilience, focusing on 6 specific skills fundamental to effective and compassionate helping.

Three Learning Objectives:

Participants will experience validation and have additional language for the personal struggles in doing crisis response work
Participants will have an in-depth understanding of six critical skills for effective and compassionate helping
Participants will leave with an enhanced sense of hopefulness and inspiration regarding their professional work

Alan O'Malley-Laursen

With over 40 years of experience in human services, including crisis response work, Alan’s current work focuses on professional well-being and resilience. He has provided numerous workshops on secondary traumatic stress and effective helping to various human service organizations and conferences across the state of Minnesota, as well as multiple times at the San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment and in collaboration with the National Child Abuse and Neglect Technical Assistance and Strategic Dissemination Center in Washington, D.C., the California Evidence Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

How Can We Be Helpful If We Aren’t “Feeling It”? – Six Fundamental Skills for Effective and Compassionate Helping

MN Mental Health Crisis Response Trainings

Free On-Demand Tranings for Mental Health Professionals

This presentation was part of the 5th Annual Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit.

Alan O'Malley-Laursen

Get the help you or a loved one need.

How Can We Be Helpful If We Aren’t “Feeling It”? – Six Fundamental Skills for Effective and Compassionate Helping

MN Mental Health Crisis Response Trainings

Free On-Demand Tranings for Mental Health Professionals

This presentation was part of the 5th Annual Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit.

Alan O'Malley-Laursen

Get the help you or a loved one need.

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