As we have discovered in the previous sections of this toolkit, the goal of compassion resilience can be reached with the application of personal skills and perspectives combined with organizational policies and practices. In this section we will focus on the systemic factors that can negatively impact our compassion resilience and explore our response and potential role in making positive change.

We all work in imperfect systems. When we look outside of our own system to those that we rely on to provide for the health and well-being of our students and their families, we find more imperfection. The first step in lessening the negative impact of the systems in which we live and work is naming what it is about the systems that contributes to our compassion fatigue. The second step is to discover which items on that list we can change, which ones leadership can and will address, and which ones we would best be served by letting go.

Facilitator Materials, Section Four

Toolkit Facilitators and Leadership Team, Please Review Prior to Implementing What Can I Control? Activity
The following is a review of system factors that lead to compassion fatigue and those that are protective. Keep these factors in mind as you facilitate the combined staff and leadership activity, What Can I Control?, and if you are on the leadership team, use this information to prepare and respond to the activity.

Facilitator Agenda, Section Four

Video: Excerpts from Section 4 Activities

Links Specifically for Leadership

Leadership Considerations specific to Drivers of Fatigue and Resilience – Youtube
This section will focus on the systemic factors that can negatively impact our compassion resilience and explore our response and potential role in making positive change. Hear how this leader helped their team minimize their fatigue and increase their resilience in the workplace.