Mind Matters: Sustainable Compassion in Healthcare (PSK25NOV26a)

This session explores the concept of sustainable compassion in healthcare, including the challenges of maintaining empathy and connection in high-pressure training environments. We will consider how factors such as workload, emotional labour, perfectionism and performance pressure can impact compassionate practice and contribute to burnout.

The session will introduce practical approaches to maintaining compassion in a sustainable way, including emotional awareness, boundary-setting and self-compassion. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own experiences and consider strategies that support both patient care and personal wellbeing.

The session is interactive and reflective in style, using a combination of brief teaching, guided reflection and discussion. It is suitable for all doctors in training and does not require prior knowledge.

Booking courses

Please ensure that you check your availability before booking a place and add the booking to your diary / calendar. Please ensure that you also book the relevant study leave in advance with your employer.

Please refrain from booking multiple instances of the same course or course type to ensure that places are available to your colleagues. If a course is full, please add yourself to the waiting list and you will receive a notification if a place becomes available.

Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

Participants must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

This course is only available to General Practice and Higher Specialty trainees, and SAS Doctors within Yorkshire and the Humber.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

To support doctors in training to understand the concept of sustainable compassion and develop practical strategies to maintain compassionate practice while protecting their own wellbeing.

This course will: 

• Introduce the concept of sustainable compassion in healthcare. 
• Explore the factors that can impact compassion, including workload, emotional labour and performance pressure. 
• Examine the relationship between compassion, self-compassion and burnout. 
• Provide opportunities for guided reflection on individual experiences of compassion and emotional demand (optional). 
• Introduce practical strategies to support sustainable compassionate practice, including emotional awareness and boundary-setting.

After this session, delegates will be able to: 

• Understand the concept of sustainable compassion and its relevance in healthcare. 
• Recognise factors that may impact their ability to maintain compassion in clinical practice.
• Understand the relationship between compassion, self-compassion and burnout.
• Reflect on their own experiences of emotional demand and compassionate practice (if applicable). 
• Apply practical strategies to support sustainable compassion and personal wellbeing.