Event

The Compassion Paradox: making sense of a difficult work environment together

Join this interactive session where we'll use two Liberating Structures; '1-2-4-all' to explore 'Wicked Questions' uncovered by participants from a previous learning session.

18 May 2023
12:00 – 13:00

  • How can we create environments that support client and colleagues’ wellbeing and still be functional as a clinical space?
  • How can we show our patients they are important and simultaneously cope with the demand?
  • How can a manager role model wellbeing time for themselves and simultaneously support their team to do the same?
  • How can we collect data to assess program quality and simultaneously excite staff to use the data for improvement and decision making when they are so stressed and anxious?
  • How do we offer compassion and care to enable us to ease the suffering of others and simultaneously nurture the wellbeing of staff to remain compassionate in the face of continued exposure to others suffering?

These are just some of the ‘Wicked Questions’ uncovered by participants at a recent active learning session. This session will be facilitated using two different Liberating Structures. We’ll use ‘1-2-4-all’ to explore the ‘Wicked Questions’, presented by the Compassion Paradox.

We have two dates planned:

Thursday 20 April l 16.30-17.30
Thursday 18 May 12.00-13.00

We will connect and share using the Liberating Structure ‘1-2-4-all’:

  • Reflect alone (1min)
  • In pairs share your reflection and build your ideas (2min)
  • In fours share your ideas from pairs and build those ideas further (4min)
  • Sharing with the main group – what is one idea that stood out (5min)

We will also use Jamboards, watch this YouTube video on ‘How to use Jam Board’.

We have given some examples of ‘Wicked Questions’ above; at the sessions we shall decide which ones we want to have a go at considering solutions to.

People have also asked for practical tools to take away so the session will also cover how we can relax using all our senses. Which is something we can practice ourselves and use in our teams.

While we work in different settings, we may find we are facing similar challenges, and find this cross fertilisation of ideas helpful in whatever quality improvement goals we or our organisations are pursuing at present.

This session is organised by the Staff Wellbeing and Quality Health Care Special Interest Group.