Clinician Care: Burnout Prevention through Compassion Training

Live Online Training
July 10, 17, 24, and 31; and August 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2023
5:30-7:00pm ET (all days)

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 12 CE contact hours

Co-Sponsored by NYU Rory Meyers School of Nursing and the Compassion Education Alliance

Clinician Care is an 8-week personal and professional development course based on a compassion training curriculum designed at the Stanford School of Medicine (Compassion Cultivation Training ©). This program is specifically customized for therapists, nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals, and is available for 12 CE’s upon successful course completion. You will be introduced to practical tools and techniques that can be integrated into your life, providing protection against an inherently stressful work environment while promoting a reconnection with professional meaning.

This is a live and interactive class. Here is what to expect:

• Explore how the science of compassion informs burnout prevention
• Practice evidence-based techniques to counter burnout symptoms
• Experience guided meditations geared towards building core resilience
• Participate in exercises to support interpersonal connection

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Utilize compassion science to identify symptom specific burnout interventions
• Describe current research on the effectiveness of compassion practices
• Explain the differences between empathy and compassion
• Describe how empathetic distress and compassion collapse lead to burnout
• Apply mindfulness skills including meditation to stay present to self and others
• Apply compassion skills as a response to typical work and personal stressors
• Use compassion practice with self and others for emotional regulation
• Use cognitive re-framing with self and others on the basis of common humanity
• Use self-compassion meditation practices to improve interpersonal functioning
• List three (3) sources of resistance to the development of self-compassion
• Explain typical resistances to compassion for and from others

Research suggests compassion training for healthcare professionals may:

• Reduce physiological markers of stress
• Decrease self-critical inner dialogue
• Prevent empathic distress and energize you as you care for others
• Improve emotional resilience and ability to recover from challenges
• Strengthen meaningful relationship and decrease loneliness

“I liked learning about the importance of our interconnectedness, taking a step back and being mindful to be fully present, and being as compassionate to one's self as to others. I also really enjoyed the breakout rooms and the chance to interact with other participants.”
- Previous Attendee

“A chance to refresh my meditation practice and to learn techniques to foster more compassion towards myself and others, especially those that I have trouble feeling compassion for. Learning that self-compassion and compassion for others is a win-win for everyone.”
- Previous Attendee

Bornali Basu, PhD

Bornali Basu is a licensed psychologist on the clinical faculty at the Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in New York focused on compassion and mindfulness based approaches to cultivating joy. She completed her internship and a post-doctoral fellowship in cardiac psychology at the NYU School of Medicine, and previously was a senior staff psychologist at Bellevue Hospital where she founded, and was the Director of the Mind-Body Program. She is dually certified to teach CCT through the Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education at the Stanford School of Medicine, and the Compassion Institute.

Karen Mott, BSN, RN, OCN

Karen Mott is an Oncology Nurse Navigator in Palliative Care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. A former hospice nurse, now working in oncology for over a decade, Karen found yoga and meditation as a way to manage the stresses of caregiving and daily life. Now, she finds joy in bringing her certified compassion teaching skills to the wider world. Karen completed CCT Teacher Certification through the Center for Compassion, Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at the Stanford School of Medicine and the Compassion Institute in 2017. She is also a certified yoga teacher and Y4C (Yoga for Cancer) teacher.

Note: Registration for this event is limited to 25 attendees. 

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General Admission: $250.00

Available discounts include:

• NYU Faculty & Staff (Inclusive of Rory Meyers): $187.50
• NYU Silver & Rory Meyers Alumni (Graduate and Undergraduate degrees): $187.50
• NYU Silver Post-Master's Certificate Program Alumni: $212.50
• NYU Silver & Rory Meyers Current Practicum Instructors: $187.50
• NYU Silver & Rory Meyers Retired Full-Time Faculty: $187.50
• NYU Silver & Rory Meyers Current Students: $125.00
• Non-NYU Silver Current MSW and Ph.D. Students: $125.00
• 3+ from one agency (each): $187.50
• Veterans: $125

If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:

• Refund requests made on or before July 3 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before July 7 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after July 8: no refund

If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 12 Continuing Education Contact Hours.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing Center for Continuing Nursing Professional Development is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (Provider # P0367).
Contact Hours Provided: 12.0.

Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Addressing Grievances:
For information on our grievance and complaint procedures, contact 212.998.9099 or silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Note on Accessibility:
It is a priority to make our events inclusive and accessible. For any questions or to notify us of a request, please email silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu at least 72 hours before the event.

NYU Silver School of Social Work
Office of Global and Lifelong Learning
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New York, NY 10003

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Phone: 212.998.5973
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