This course is only available in French.
Providing health care is very rewarding, but can also become more burdensome for the therapist at times.
In this course, professionals will learn tools to manage the stress and burden associated with the clinical reality of being a health care professional. A review of the literature demonstrating the personal and professional benefits of a self-care routine will be discussed.
The professional will learn techniques and strategies to better integrate self-compassion into his or her daily life in order to offer the best of himself or herself to his or her clients.
I appreciate the subject of the course, but I believe that the therapist’s mental health is of such importance that it deserves much more scientifically rigorous teaching.
I had high expectations for the first 3 course objectives, which were only skimmed over. The course was really just a yoga workshop.
There was no exploration of concrete solutions to the problems identified in module 2.
Ex: – Work overload: legal framework? Therapists’ self-affirmation vis-Ă -vis their employers?
– Power struggles and bullying between professionals
– Communication between employees
– Ethical aspects of being a third-party payer
– Conflicts of interest between therapist, employer and third-party payer
– Therapist’s sense of powerlessness
– Neuroscience of compassion fatigue
etc.
On the trainability of compassion:
It’s not enough to present the differing opinions of authors, without explaining their justifications. Above all, we need to present the scientific evidence.
The instructor presents yoga as an exhaustive study of mental health needs, accepting its precepts outright; and presents it as a panacea. The reasoning is circular.
I respect her passion for yoga, but I expect a physiotherapist instructor to have a scientific basis.
She doesn’t present enough scientific evidence of the alleged benefits (effort to confirm hypotheses) of yoga on therapists’ mental health, and there’s no apparent effort to disprove either. These elements would not be sufficient either, however.
For rigorous treatment would not begin with the precepts of yoga or any other tradition. It would begin with the study of the problems set out in the introduction (modules 1&2, e.g. compassion fatigue), its deconstruction into fundamental elements/mechanisms (e.g. neuroscience, psychology, social psychology), and the study of their interrelationships, and from there the search for solutions by logic alone, informed by science, backed by evidence. Parallels with yoga and other traditions could be drawn as a bonus.
Thank you very much, precious time and very interesting tools if only for my sankalpa!
Excellent wellness course!
Thank you, it’s a great course. A little harder to stay focused for a more Cartesian mind with a very low level of knowledge of yoga and meditation.
I loved it and learned so much. Thank you for such an important course.