Course Catalog

Below is a catalog of the Academy’s free courses.

Combating Burnout and Compassion Fatigue

Brief Learning Series

Self-Paced (2 hours)

Burnout and compassion fatigue can diminish the way people feel about their work and contribute to things like turnover, especially for helping professionals. However, it is possible to combat these issues by building and promoting self-care and self-compassion. This course introduces definitions of burnout and compassion fatigue, helps learners recognize signs and symptoms in themselves and others, and offers proactive strategies to protect or improve wellness in the face of work-related stress.

Processing Sociopolitical Grief with Joyful Empowerment

Brief Learning Series

Self-Paced (4 hours)

This 3-part series will allow participants to explore their grief and its possible constituent elements (fear, anxiety, outrage, apathy, hopelessness, despair, and more) as they are experienced in relation to the legacies of loss in many marginalized communities, including those associated with gentrification and the geo-socio-political realities of our time. Participants will gain experience with life-affirming contemplative practices that can be used toward ongoing personal, interpersonal, and communal insight, empowerment, and transformation.

This series includes:

Session I: Processing Sociopolitical Grief with Joyful Empowerment

Session II: Moving with the Movements Toward More Just Behavioral Health.

Session III: Rewriting an Equitable Future of Human Services Provision.