Working with Neurodivergence: Sustainable Compassion in Healthcare (FD25NOV26)

This session explores sustainable compassion within medical education, including the emotional demands placed on both doctors in training and educators. We will consider how compassion can be affected by workload, responsibility, repeated exposure to distress and the pressures of supporting others.

The session will focus on how educators can model and support sustainable compassion, including delivering feedback, managing boundaries and maintaining effective working relationships. Practical strategies will be shared to support both educators and those they support in balancing compassion with self-protection.

The session is interactive and reflective in style, using a combination of brief teaching, guided reflection and discussion. It is suitable for all educators, including those supporting doctors in training and those who identify as neurodivergent themselves.

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 Educational Supervisors, Education Leads, Training Programme Directors and Senior Faculty within Yorkshire and the Humber.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

To support educators to understand sustainable compassion in medical training and develop strategies to model and maintain compassionate practice while protecting their own wellbeing and supporting others effectively.

This course will:

• Introduce the concept of sustainable compassion in healthcare and medical education. 
• Explore the factors that can impact compassion in both educators and doctors in training. 
• Examine the relationship between compassion, self-compassion and burnout.
• Explore the role of the educator in modelling and supporting sustainable compassion.
• Provide opportunities for guided reflection on individual experiences (optional).
• Introduce practical strategies to support sustainable compassionate practice, including boundary-setting and emotional awareness.

After this course, delegates will be able to: 

• Understand the concept of sustainable compassion and its relevance in medical training. 
• Recognise factors that may impact compassion in both educators and doctors in training.
• Understand the relationship between compassion, self-compassion and burnout.
• Reflect on their own experiences of supporting others and managing emotional demands. 
• Apply practical strategies to model and support sustainable compassion in educational and clinical settings.