Udemy
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
Subscribe
Turn what you know into an opportunity and reach millions around the world.
Learn More
Your cart is empty.
Keep shopping
Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(144 ratings)
834 students

Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience

Prevention and Resolution of Burnout, Toxic Stress, and Compassion Fatigue
Created byJ. Eric Gentry, PhD
Last updated 5/2025
English
English [Auto],Vietnamese [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • This is training for professional helpers to prevent compassion fatigue and other work-related stress disorders.

Course content

1 section • 13 lectures • 6h 35m total length

  • Welcome0:48
  • Module I. Introduction to Resilience0:45
  • FFPR Module I. Introduction to Resilience1:04:19

    Explore the forward facing approach to professional resilience, addressing compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress through the accelerated recovery program, guided by Victor Frankel's meaning-making in trauma care.

  • Module I. Introduction to Resilience
  • Module II. Compassion Fatigue0:47
  • FFPR Module II. Compassion Fatigue1:19:11

    Learn how perceived threat drives stress through the autonomic nervous system, explore neuroception and the anterior cingulate, and practice down-regulation to build professional resilience against compassion fatigue.

  • Module II. Compassion Fatigue
  • Module III. Perceived Threat1:01
  • FFPR Module III. Perceived Threat1:02:19

    Learn to identify perceived threat as the root of compassion fatigue and burnout, and master self-regulation to shift from external blame to internal control.

  • Module III. Perceived Threat
  • Module IV. Self-Regulation0:41
  • FFPR Module IV. Self-Regulation1:20:22

    Cultivate professional resilience by mastering self-regulation and interoception, using five antibodies—self-regulation, intentionality, perceptual maturation, connection and support—plus self-care and revitalization.

  • Module IV. Self-Regulation
  • Module V. Intentionality0:44
  • FFPR Module V. Intentionality1:39:28

    Learn forward facing professional resilience by mastering self-regulation and intentionality, forging your mission and code of honor, and building perceptual maturation, supportive connections, and proactive self-care.

  • Module V. Intentionality
  • Forward-Facing(R) Professional Resilience - Before & After4:35

    Reframe how you handle external pressures in emergency medicine by focusing on what you can control—the response—to reduce stress and stay connected and effective.

  • Bonus lecture0:33

Requirements

  • This is a discussion of the elements of trauma informed care and supporting materials on the nature of how trauma/adversity can impact life and health throughout the lifespan.

Description

Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience:

Prevention and Resolution of Burnout, Toxic Stress and Compassion Fatigue

CONSULTING SERVICES FOR RESILIENCE & LEADERSHIP


What you'll learn

Forward-Facing™ Professional Resilience is the result of 20+ years of research and development in the area of burnout and compassion fatigue prevention. We have published nine empirical peer-reviewed studies that have demonstrated the skills in this workshop lessen the stress-related effects of caregiving and service work. Additionally, these same skills—when implemented in a displaced approach—enhance well-being, performance and professional quality of life. This course provides the participant with training in each of the five (5) resilience skills for the prevention and resolution of work-related stress while, simultaneously, enhancing professional performance.


Requirements

Anyone interested in learning how to lessen stress, improve resilience, enhance performance (cognitive and motor) and optimize personal/professional life is welcome to engage this course. There are no prerequisites.


Description

Join Dr. Eric Gentry, LMHC in this workshop as he draws from the Accelerated Recovery Program for Compassion Fatigue and the Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist training to provide an intensive one-day experiential training for professional helpers to prevent compassion fatigue and other work-related stress disorders. This course is an inoculation or vaccination against the potentially painful effects to caregivers working with troubled and traumatized populations. This training is also intended to produce an ameliorative effect upon the current compassion fatigue symptoms that participants may be experiencing. This training-as-treatment effect for this training has been published in several journals and is recognized as an effective treatment for the symptoms of compassion fatigue. The day is a potent alchemy of didactic information, experiential processing, and transformative techniques that assists the professional and/or volunteer care provider in resolving symptoms of compassion fatigue while, at once, developing resiliency skills and practices that prevent compassion fatigue symptoms in the future. Dr. Gentry has offered this training to over 100,000 satisfied professional and volunteer care providers in the U.S. and abroad.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the history, causes, treatment and prevention of work-related stress for professional caregiver.

2. Identify the true causes of stress in personal and professional life.

3. Learn skills for successful self-regulation of anxiety, no matter the external context.

4. Develop knowledge and skills necessary to prevent the symptoms of work-related stress and fatigue through enhanced resiliency.

5. Utilization of self-regulations and perceptual maturation skills to significantly lessen the negative effects of work.

6. Development of a self-directed Professional Resiliency Plan that can be easily integrated into professional practice and personal life.


Credentialing: Participants who successfully complete this course are eligible to pursue credentialing as a Registered Forward-Facing® Practitioner.


This course is not available for NBCC credit.



Who this course is for:

  • • Mental health, teachers, probation, courts, child-protective agencies, foster parents, faith leaders; HR professionals, leadership.

Report abuse