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This is a 5-hour continuing education course approved through the LPCA-GA. It is a full participation course, live, via Zoom, beginning at 9:30am, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026 and ending at 3:45pm with optional Q&A until 4:00pm ET. Full schedule will be emailed upon registration.
Have you ever felt you have become infected by the suffering of others? Have you ever been told that you care too much? Or too little? Do you ever feel that the boundaries of your professionalism are permeable, leaving you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out as you struggle to care for those around you?
What if the problem is not that you care too much or too little but that you’ve been going about compassion all wrong?
Influenced by a life spent in service to others, Jennifer has uncovered that compassion is something we do not need to train in. Compassion is composed of multiple non-compassion elements, none of which require us to sacrifice our own well-being or the well-being of those we love and support. Those who are most driven by the motivation to alleviate suffering—who have even built careers around it as healthcare professionals, educators, social workers, therapists, and more—are confronted daily by obstacles to acting with compassion.
The biggest obstacle is right in front of you, and Jennifer will ask you to give up who you think you are in order to see it. This is a full participation (experience over education) workshop that takes us on a fascinating body-mind-soul journey that aims to pique more interest in making sense of and understanding how we have organized ourselves around suffering. Avoiding the obstacles of compassion separates the average therapist from those achieving clinical excellence.
This is a 5-hour continuing education course approved through the LPCA-GA. It is a full participation course, live, via Zoom, beginning at 9:30am, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026 and ending at 3:45pm with optional Q&A until 4:00pm ET. Full schedule will be emailed upon registration.
Have you ever felt you have become infected by the suffering of others? Have you ever been told that you care too much? Or too little? Do you ever feel that the boundaries of your professionalism are permeable, leaving you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out as you struggle to care for those around you?
What if the problem is not that you care too much or too little but that you’ve been going about compassion all wrong?
Influenced by a life spent in service to others, Jennifer has uncovered that compassion is something we do not need to train in. Compassion is composed of multiple non-compassion elements, none of which require us to sacrifice our own well-being or the well-being of those we love and support. Those who are most driven by the motivation to alleviate suffering—who have even built careers around it as healthcare professionals, educators, social workers, therapists, and more—are confronted daily by obstacles to acting with compassion.
The biggest obstacle is right in front of you, and Jennifer will ask you to give up who you think you are in order to see it. This is a full participation (experience over education) workshop that takes us on a fascinating body-mind-soul journey that aims to pique more interest in making sense of and understanding how we have organized ourselves around suffering. Avoiding the obstacles of compassion separates the average therapist from those achieving clinical excellence.