A Journey to Presence: Building Compassion Satisfaction, Preventing Compassion Fatigue.
A five day, (five nights, Friday evening to lunchtime on Wednesday) residential programme for therapists to build the skills for resilience and recovery in their professional practice. (25-hour CPD contact). Incorporating a balance of Research based Theory, and skills Practice for Integration of learning.
Location: Ballyvaloo, Blackwater, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford Y21X392
Venue: Ballyvaloo Centre
Dates: August 29th to September 3rd 2025
Cost: €750 (all inclusive of full board, (bed and meals), individual en-suite ` room, workshop and refreshments.)
More information and booking: https://www.ballyvaloo.ie/event/a-journey-to-presence-building-compassion-satisfaction-preventing-compassion-fatigue-25-hours-cpd-contact/
Presenters
Dr Marko Punkanen PhD
Is a music therapist, dance movement therapist, trauma psychotherapist, certified Sensorimotor psychotherapist. He is a supervisor in private practice, is a trainer with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and is a trauma psychotherapy trainer in the university of Oulu. He is actively involved with the trauma psychotherapy, music therapy and dance movement therapy training in Finland and trains psychotherapy trainers.
He has over 20 years’ experience in the treatment of severe traumatization. His specialist area is the treatment of complex and attachment trauma the bodily symptoms of trauma (somatoform dissociation) and the use of the body in trauma treatment. He is founder and director of the Nyanssi Therapy Centre which offers music therapy, dance movement therapy, psychotherapy, vibroacoustic therapy (VAT) and supervision services in Lahti Finland. He is the co-founder of the first extensive vibroacoustic therapy VAT training in Finland and he has studied the use of VAT in drug rehabilitation. He is one of the founders of the VIBRAC Skille- Lehikoinen Centre for Vibroacoustic Therapy and Research. From 2007-2011 Marco worked as a researcher in the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research in the University of Jyvaskyla. He was part of the research team which investigated the perception and preferences of emotions and music by depressed patients and the efficacy of improvisational individual music therapy for depression.
Michael Dillon
B.A, B.D, Grad Dip Marketing and Management RT, Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist. Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy Level 9.
Michael is currently director of Ballyvaloo retreat and conference centre where he oversees the development and delivery of programme activities. He is former CEO of the Ford Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre, Wexford where he had clinical responsibility for therapists and has also worked with the HSE CIPC and SHIP counselling services in the South East. He worked for many years with the MEND programme assessing applicants for the Domestic Abuse Intervention Programme and facilitating group programmes. He is an accredited psychotherapist with the IACP for over 15 years. He is a certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist. He was a founding member Irish Sensorimotor alumni Chapter and a Steering Group member until January 2023. He has a small private psychotherapy practice, specialising in trauma work. He has facilitated wellness days for nurses and teaching staff and inputted on Dance therapy training in Finland.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES OF THE EVENT
To provide participants with knowledge about:
1. Our action tendencies around Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue based on current research.
To outline the core elements of Compassion Fatigue, and to build awareness of stressors and boundaries.
What do we mean by compassion fatigue burnout and the research on this. Secondary stress and Boundaries.
Compassion fatigue and the impact of Limiting Core beliefs.
Facilitating Individual participants to recognize indicators of secondary stress in our own lives as therapists.
2. Developing practical skills for increasing Compassion Satisfaction and reducing Compassion Fatigue.
To identify and explore the research on a range of maps for understanding the emotional and psychological regulation system as a means to building resilience and increasing self-awareness.
Develop skills to identify and understand the components of Compassion Satisfaction, build resilience and how to use this as a resource.
3. Understanding of the Concept of Therapeutic Presence (To explore and embody the qualities of Therapeutic Presence and their significance for healing spaces, the therapeutic alliance and outcomes)
Understanding the concept of Kinaesthetic empathy, Somatic Countertransference and Somatic resources.
4. Developing a personal self-care protocol in line with current research on building resilience in clinical practice.
5. How to create space and time for integrating research-based practices.
Key words: Presence, Awareness, Insight, Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue, Boundaries, Self-Compassion, Self-regulation, Co-regulation, Inner Attunement, Resonance, Safety, Rest, Resilience.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Awareness of our action tendencies around Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue.
2.A knowledge and experience of what it means to be authentically present in a clinical setting.
3. Building resilience and practical skills for increasing Compassion Satisfaction and reducing Compassion Fatigue.
4. Developing one’s own self-care protocol.
5. Therapists becoming aware of their self-care patterns and the impact that these have on the therapeutic relationship and therapeutic outcomes.
PROGRAMME / SCHEDULE / AGENDA
An outline of the educational content:
1. (A) Presence – Therapeutic Presence
Educational Objectives: To explore the current research on the element’s qualities of Therapeutic Presence and their significance for the therapeutic alliance and outcomes.
(B) Maps for self-regulation systems
Maps 1. Action Systems (Panskepp)
Maps 2. Window of Tolerance(Siegel)
Educational objectives: To identify and explore the research Action Systems and Window of tolerance for understanding the emotional and psychological regulation system as a means to building resilience and increasing self-awareness.
2. (A) Compassion fatigue
Educational Objectives: To outline and understand the core elements of Compassion Fatigue, and to build awareness of stressors and boundaries, in line with current research and literature from leading experts in the area.
(B) Maps for self-regulation
Map 1. Polyvagal Theory
Map 2. Emotion Regulation System.
Educational objectives: To identify and explore the research on the Polyvagal System (Porges) and the emotional Regulation system (Gilbert) for understanding the emotional and psychological regulation system and its importance for building resilience and increasing self-awareness.
3. (A) Compassion satisfaction and resilience.
Educational objectives: Develop skills to identify and understand the components of Compassion Satisfaction and resilience building and how to use this information as a resource in therapy practice through building a self-care protocol.
(B) Self -Care protocol: Designing your own self- care protocol: Booklet/Journal.
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