If your job involves you engaging empathetically with survivors of traumatic incidents of one sort or another, you will potentially be affected. First-responders in particular are at risk - for example fire-fighters, first-aiders, paramedics, nurses, doctors, police and armed forces, veterinarians, front-line workers in animal rescue centres, teachers, carers, social workers... the list is a long one.

A typical response from someone experiencing this type of trauma, is that there must be something wrong with them, along with a reluctance to admit anything is amiss. The truth is, as Dr J Eric Gentry (a prominent compassion fatigue expert from the Arizona Trauma Institute) says, "you are going to experience pain from this work, and there's no way round that".

If a reluctance to talk about it means that the talking therapies are not an option, what other options are there to build a healthy resilience?

During this one day workshop we (the two-leggeds) will be providing attendees with a knowledge and understanding of trauma, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, empathy and self care.

Attendees will also gain some insights into self care together with practical skills to use for continuing self care. These will come from working with our gentle, non-judgmental herd of horses (the four-leggeds), who will listen and work with individuals in an extraordinarily powerful way - helping people to stay doing what they do best.

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