The Advocate's Oasis: Cultivating Compassion Satisfaction Through Meaningful Action

Counselors are uniquely called to engage in advocacy for minoritized communities, but an everchanging social climate continues to create barriers to effectively engaging in advocacy. Evolving legislation, compassion fatigue, and scarce availability of resources all hinder the counselor's ability to engage fully in advocacy. In this presentation, attendees will reflect on their own levels of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction using the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) Scale (Stamm, 2009), a well-established instrument. Furthermore, participants will gain practical strategies and solutions for engaging in sustainable and meaningful advocacy, fostering both personal well-being and impactful social change.

Learning Objectives:

1.) Attendees will discuss barriers to engaging in advocacy as professionals. 

2.) Attendees will examine their own levels of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction. 

3.) Attendees will learn practical strategies for advocating for marginalized communities in the community.

Speakers:

Kamiron Tran

Reagan Dickson

Sloane Sivek