How to care for ourselves: Self-compassion for nurses and midwives
Training Overview
Background
Self-compassion involves a broad skill set that is essential for healthy living and high performance. Nurses high in self-compassion are able to acknowledge their own distress, and regulate their emotions in an adaptive way; this helps to reduce the negative effects of stress and protect against burnout. Nurses high in self-compassion also tend to take better care of themselves outside of work. In short, learning self-compassion skills is essential for nurses to remain engaged, productive and satisfied with their careers. Creating a self-compassionate team is also likely to lead to a range of other benefits in team effectiveness, and facilitate compassionate leadership.
Inside the training, participants will learn through practical exercises and group discussion what self-compassion is, and how to actually practice it.
Participants will leave feeling confident in using a range of new tools to help them cope with the stresses and strains of their role. This will help improve their personal effectiveness and overall mental and physical health.
This training can be delivered as a workshop (half-day or full-day). The most effective format is to spread this training across several sessions, giving participants opportunity to practice skills. This can be arranged in a bespoke way for your organisation.
Interested in this training?
Book a call with Nathan below to discuss your needs further.
Participants of this workshop will achieve several key outcomes:
- Understanding self-compassion: Participants will learn to identify the different types of self-compassion and how nurses can use these in day-to-day life.
- Personal Reflection: Participants will be guided through a process to uncover personal and organisational barriers to being self-compassionate, and how to overcome these.
- Practical Strategies: Participants will learn a range of new, practical tools to develop self-compassion.
- Peer Support: Group discussion and reflection will enhance connection and cohesion within the group.
- Enhanced Wellbeing: Application their new tools will lead to increased capacity to deal with stress and difficult emotions. This can enhance wellbeing, productivity and focus.
Interested in this training?
Book a call with Nathan below to discuss your needs further.
Dr Nathan Illman
Clinical psychologist and founder of
Nurse Wellbeing Mission
Nathan is a Clinical Psychologist and coach who works exclusively with nurses and midwives. He regularly provides individual and group supervision and coaching, specialising in compassion-focussed interventions. In this workshop he will draw on his varied clinical and training experience to bring you a lively, thought-provoking and confidence-boosting event.
Interested in this training?
Book a call with Nathan below to discuss your needs further.
Cost
The delivery of this training is flexible and cost will depend on length and number of sessions. Below is a guide, but please get in touch to discuss your unique needs:
In-person
For in-person delivery, we only offer a full-day version of the workshop.
Cost for in-person full-day workshop is £2999 inclusive of travel within 2 hours of Brighton, Sussex. This is for a maximum group size of approximately 20 people.
Virtual
The training can be delivered virtually to your team via Zoom.
The most effective delivery of this training is over several sessions, giving participants an opportunity to practice and integrate new skills into life and then come back and reflect on this experience.
We offer a tailored service for this, depending on your group size and budget. Please get in touch to discuss things further.
If you would like to hold the training as a one-off workshop, the cost is £2499 full-day, £1249 half-day, for a maximum group size of approximately 20 people.
Get in touch now to discuss bringing this workshop to your team.
Interested in this training?
Book a call with Nathan below to discuss your needs further.
Dr Nathan Illman
Nathan is a Clinical Psychologist and coach who works exclusively with nurses and midwives. He regularly provides individual and group supervision and coaching, specialising in compassion-focussed interventions. In this workshop he will draw on his varied clinical and training experience to bring you a lively, thought-provoking and confidence-boosting event.
Testimonials
Workshop feedback:
Midwife workshop participant
Nathan is a very professional therapist who is kind and ready to help in maintaining nurses' wellbeing. He has provided some sessions to the nurses in our mental health department to gear them with tools and strategies on how to take care of themselves. Feedback from our staff was very positive. His friendly approach at the same time as his professionalism was outstanding. Being such an unprecedented time his sessions came very useful. He will be an asset to other
Charge Nurse and Nurse Training Co-ordinator
Before the workshop I was experiencing a lack of confidence and self-doubt, but the workshop helped to build my confidence and refreshed enthusiasm for the role Nathan was friendly and extremely kind and professional in his delivery.
RN, workshop participant
I enjoyed the whole day and found it very informative. I valued the networking with participants, which enabled me to share my thoughts as well as learn from fellow participants. I recommend this to anyone looking to learn more about self compassion while benefiting from sharing experiences.
Nurse workshop participant
This has been the most interesting and useful online study workshop I have attended in a long time.
Nurse workshop participant
“I found this workshop really useful as it not only allows time to speak to other PNAs but also to work through exercises that will help in the role going forward. I really benefited from learning practical skills which were not taught in my course.
PNA and workshop participant
I attended Nathan's workshop on self-compassion for midwives recently and it was very enlightening. Amongst other things, he did some visualisation techniques with our group which I have found to be really beneficial. He taught us that they can be easily transferable for use with all sorts of situations. I have already felt the benefit of his session and it's amazing how 2.5 hours can have such a positive impact in so many ways instantly.