There have always been crises in people’s lives but seldom have so many of us known so many people in distress and suffering. Most of us want to be supportive, but it can be hard to understand how to be helpful. At times we may find ourselves overwhelmed by our compassionate attention to others. It is also the case that sometimes our best intentions backfire. This webinar will address how to be helpful – attuned, thoughtful, supportive – without becoming overburdened. I address how to avoid empathic pitfalls while offering support. We will describe how to think about resilience as a zone and create a resource list that fits each person’s resilience profile. Finally, we will consider how to mobilize reasonable hope and benefit from vicarious hope.

We are pleased to offer 1.5 hours of CNE or CME* credit
at no cost to participants.

 
CNE Credit: Migrant Clinicians Network is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. To receive continuing nursing education certificate, participants must submit the evaluation for each session.

CME Credit: An application for accreditation has been submitted to AAFP. Once approved, only participants who submit the evaluation for each session will receive their continuing medical education certificates.

Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D., directs the Witness to Witness (W2W) Program for the Migrants Clinician Network. The goal of W2W is to help the helpers, primarily serving health care workers, attorneys, and journalists working with vulnerable populations. She worked at Harvard Medical School (1981-2017), where she was an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, and at the Family Institute of Cambridge (1982-2009). She founded and directed the Program in Families, Trauma, and Resilience at the Family Institute of Cambridge. Internationally, she has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand, where she was a Fulbright Specialist. Dr. Weingarten’s work focuses on developing and disseminating a witnessing model. She has written or edited six books and over 100 articles, chapters, and essays. Her work on reasonable hope has been widely cited.