This Conference is a "must attend" experience for anyone working in the fields of crisis intervention, traumatic stress, emergency services, mental health, including: emergency room physicians, nurses, medical facility staff, social workers, rehab counsellors & therapists, EMTs /paramedics, emergency service administrators, emergency operations administrators & managers, physiotherapists, discharge planners, crisis workers, risk managers, occupational and speech therapists.

The event registration fee is $85 before Oct 1st and $100 after Oct 1st. Registration includes a continental breakfast, lunch and workshop materials. Last year's seminar sold out quickly with record attendance. Space is limited so register early.

Compassion Fatigue is the latest in an evolving concept that is known in the field of Traumatology as "Secondary Traumatic Stress" (STS). Most often this phenomenon is associated with the "cost of caring" (Dr. Charles Figley, 1982) for others in emotional pain.

Empathic engagement with clients and their trauma can result in Compassion Fatigue (CF). This term describes the painful transformation in the caregivers' inner experience.

• dread of certain sessions (or work in general)
• nightmares
• intrusive images and thoughts related to client's trauma
• diminished joy in life
• numbing of one's internal life, and shifts in one's core beliefs
  about safety, trust, esteem, intimacy, and control