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Burnout and vicarious traumatization and its prevention (67.8Kb) - The Exhaustion Funnel: Aid work, Burnout and Lessons from Mindfulness (528.5Kb)
In my daily contact with people involved in aid, development and humanitarian work, I repeatedly come across signs of physical, mental, spiritual and emotional exhaustion. I find there is often shame around it, maybe sprinkled with “self-cynicism“. Many burnout without knowing it, there’s an urge to keep going, and a sense that our personal well-being and good mental health are not worth looking after. In the book Mindfulness. Finding Peace in a Frantic World, Prof. Mark Williams and Denny Penman discuss the idea of the ‘exhaustion funnel’ to describe how we are pulled into the dark pit of burnout when we fail to care for our own psychological/emotional needs.
[...] - Burnout: Why do people suffer, and Why do International Relief Workers suffer more than Domestic Response Workers and First Responders? (257.2Kb)
