Category Archives: Career-Sustaining Behaviours

Scaling Support

Building a Mutual Support Community of Practice

In this CARE4YOU 2026 session, Dr. Janine Rowe provides practical guidance on launching a community of practice, maintaining participation, and translating shared learning into everyday support practices within teams.

June 2026

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These Are Hard Times, Not Hopeless Times

Reconnecting to Meaning in Our Work

June 2026

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Where Can Curiosity Lead Us

CARE4YOU 2026 Closing Address

June 2026

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Finding Moral Courage in Difficult Times

Six Steps to Cultivate Moral Courage

Moral courage is about finding what lies between doing nothing and taking high-cost actions to support you through the difficult stretches of your career.

January 2026

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Navigating Perfectionism, Stigma, and Shame

A Lawyer-Therapist’s Perspective on Staying Well in Trauma-Exposed Work

June 2025

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“The Other Wet Floor”

The Emotional Risks of Working in a Helping Profession

June 2024

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What Do You Have to Quit in Order to Stay?

Strategies to Sustain Our Careers

June 2023

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Low Impact Debriefing

Four Steps to Safely Share and Process Difficult Experiences

This strategy allows us to share and process difficult stories and images while preventing sliming and unnecessary secondary trauma exposure.

January 2023

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Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress

Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions

In this book, Dr. Brian MIller offers evidence-informed skills and strategies to regulate distressing emotions and to foster increased empathy for those suffering from trauma.

December 2022

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Moral Distress

When We Can’t Do the Right Thing

October 2022

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It’s Not Just Bovines Who Chew the Cud

Understanding Rumination

August 2022

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Teaching What I Need to Learn

A Discussion with Scott Jones, Police Officer & Yoga Instructor

June 2022

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Coming Home to Secondary Traumatic Stress

The Impact of Trauma-Exposed Work On Our Loved Ones

In this article, Françoise Mathieu reflects on the impact of secondary traumatic stress on our loved ones and the importance of transitions for those who work in trauma-exposed professions.

March 2022

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Breaking Your Heart At Work

A Conversation About Career-Sustaining Practices with Dr. Brian Miller

October 2021

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Making Space to Fall Apart

A Conversation on Compassionate Care with Dr. Alana Hirsh

September 2021

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Boundaries

A Deep Dive

How do you know when a boundary has been breached? In this discussion, Françoise Mathieu, Diana Tikasz. and Dr. Jennifer Russel explore boundary breaches and navigating boundaries between our work and personal lives.

June 2021

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Advocacy Breeds Confidence

A Conversation About Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Matthew Chow

May 2021

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Faking It

Recognizing Imposter Syndrome

May 2021

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Understanding Boundaries and Setting Limits

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

January 2021

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Don’t Set Yourself on Fire to Keep Others Warm

Countering the Self-Sabotaging Mindsets of Helping Professionals

June 2020

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Trauma Stewardship

An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

In this book. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers simple practices to develop mindful presence while working in a helping profession.

April 2020

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Balancing Your Life

Interview with Lawrence S. Krieger, Law Professor

Lawrence S. Krieger's research focuses on understanding why lawyers and law students are not happy. In this interview, he shares his top strategies for building a satisfying life and career.

May 2019

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The Edge of Compassion

TEDx Talk with Françoise Mathieu

In this TEDx talk, Françoise Mathieu explores the sweet spot between caring too much and not caring at all.

April 2018

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Resilience, Balance & Meaning

Supporting Our Lives and Our Work in High Stress, Trauma-Exposed Workplaces

In this workbook, Dr. Patricia Fisher provides practical tools to address the effects of workplace stress, burnout, and trauma and offers a framework to creating a personal wellness plan.

September 2016

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The Resilient Practitioner

Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for the Helping Professions

In this workbook. Dr. Skovholt and Dr. Trotter-Mathison provide students and practitioners with tools to balance caring for themselves and caring for others.

March 2016

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The Compassion Fatigue Workbook

Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

In this workbook, Françoise Mathieu provides strategies and activities to identify and transform compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization.

January 2012

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Moral Courage

Taking Action When Your Values are Put to the Test

Rushworth M. Kidder explores moral courage as "the bridge between talking ethics and doing ethics." By exploring how moral courage spurs us to strive for core values, he demonstrates the benefits of ethical action to the individual and to society - and the severe consequences that can result from remaining morally dormant.

December 2005

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Transforming the Pain

A Workbook On Vicarious Traumatization

In this book, Dr. Saakvitne and Dr. Pearlman provide self-assessment tools, guidelines and activities for addressing vicarious traumatization.

January 1996

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