Understanding Vicarious Trauma: An Experiential Workshop for Therapists

When you spend your days holding space for others, it’s easy to lose touch with your own inner balance.
This one-day experiential workshop is designed for therapists, coaches, and healing professionals who want to deepen their understanding of vicarious trauma and burnout, and discover practical ways to prevent and recover from both.

Led by Jason Brooker, the day blends theory, discussion, and experiential exercises to help you explore:

• The difference between vicarious trauma and burnout, and how each shows up in your body and mind
• Why “compassion fatigue” is a myth, and how to reconnect to yourself through self-compassion
• The five levels of self-care (Babette Rothschild’s model): physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic
• How empathy can both support and deplete you, and ways to practise conscious un-mirroring and exquisite empathy
• The subtle dynamics of projective identification and countertransference, and how they shape your work

Through meditation, pair exercises, reflection, and open discussion, you’ll leave with greater self-awareness and renewed confidence in your ability to care for yourself as deeply as you care for others.

This workshop is open to those in the healing professions, including therapists, counsellors, coaches, reiki practitioners, holistic healers, and those who work with clients experiecing trauma.

is an experienced psychotherapist and trainer who has spent years exploring the impact of empathy and emotional attunement on practitioners’ wellbeing. His work blends theory, mindfulness, and creative experiential learning to help healing professionals sustain their practice with clarity and compassion.

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Loom Club, 6 Northampton Street, London, United Kingdom

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