Tools for Inspiring Compassion
An ideal resource for:
• Caregiving Ministries • Hospices • Hospital Auxiliaries
• Family Caregivers • Seminaries • Service Clubs
Gifted caregivers do something more than give assistance or information—they bring the presence of compassion to those who suffer.
Cultivate this ability in your team by using these ready-made, video-based programs.
A handy little book that fits in your purse or back pocket. For family and volunteers to find the right words and actions that bring most comfort to those who are suffering.
Learn how to:
- Avoid the most common mistakes made when visiting the sick.
- Cope with the emotions of illness and healing.
- Convery the four elements of compassion used by gifted healiers.
- Find resources for healing and support
- Transform somene’s darketst hour into a time of healing.
Communicating with Compassion
For Team Leaders to Inspire Compassion
How to communicate in ways that
eases pain and lifts spirits.
Karen and her team vividly demonstrate, with beauty and humor, in real life situations, how anyone can learn to empower, encourage, bring hope, and lift the spirit.
In this inspiring, best-selling video-based program, Karen Fox and her team show how to treat the sick, injured, and dying with compassion. They demonstrate the four things that must happen in conversation for a person who is suffering to experience compassion.
These are the fundamental skills needed to build a bridge to the other person’s world, to get compassion across.
Communicating with Compassion
Founder of Adventures in Caring, Karen Fox explains a step-by-step method for communicating with people who are ill, injured, isolated, or in distress – using real situations, four key communication skills that empower, encourage, bring hope, and lift the spirit.
“Teaching compassion is different than teaching how to change the oil in your car, or use a new computer. For this, and other reasons, it has often been discarded from medical training, and is today frequently thought of as a frill, a nice, but unessential element. Yet, throughout history compassion has been the universal solvent, the key ingredient to true healing”.
Simon Fox, Executive Producer/ The Medicine of Compassion.
This package includes:
- 45-minute DVD or VHS-tape.48-page Leader Guide with instructions on how to use the video as the basis for a 60-minute or 90-minute class, or for a 3-hour workshop.
- To custom-design your own class additional discussion questions, class exercises, and video index are included, plus resources for continued learning and suggestions for measuring progress.
- Handouts – formatted for easy copying. Three pages summarize the essential points of the video and expand upon them.
- Beautiful production, original musical score and real-life scenes.
Lifetime Online Access
- Video Streaming on demand (41 min. video)
- Leader’s Guide downloadable PDF (48 page with discussion questions, class exercises, video index)
- Audience Handouts downloadable PDF (4 pages summarize the key points)
Three-Day Online Video Rental
- View The Communicating with Compassion video to review the program.
- Instructions to help you facilitate a reflective conversation about the program. 4-page downloadable PDF
Core Skills for Compassion to be experienced.
Participants learn to:
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Listen in ways that transform suffering
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Approach emotionally difficult situations with confidence
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Strengthen a person’s reasons and resources for healing
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Avoid the pitfalls of inappropriate communication
What team-leaders say
about this course:
Communicating with Compassion is a quality program. I find it valuable in refining the skills of supportive presence needed by lay volunteer and clergy alike. It is a complete package, educationally sound and stimulating to use. This one is a keeper!
The best educational resource I have ever seen for teaching compassion. It’s inspiring, and shows exactly how to give the psychosocial support that patients need. Everyone in the health professions should see this video.
I was impressed by how the film spoke to such a wide variety of people. Students and nurses aids easily understand the material, yet medical doctors also find it valuable.
Your video touches both the head and the heart. It flows and the teaching points are made so naturally. I cried at several places. Thank you for an effective and beautiful video.
A genuinely touching piece of work – it goes right to the heart. I have all staff view it on a regular basis and prn in times of stress or despair. This video is a powerful reminder of the human component in patient care.
Scenes from
Communicating with Compassion:
Anyone who wants to increase their ability to communicate with compassion, empathy and caring, will benefit from this video. Communicating with Compassion is a special blend of practical know-how and sensitivity to the unique needs of individuals who are ill. It is a “must see” for all health care providers
Throughout history, compassion, caring, and love have been the foundation of healing. Without them, medical science and technology are inadequate. The Medicine of Compassion reminds us that these factors remain crucial in health care, as the greatest healers have always known.
As I reflect on the widespread need in our frantic, fractured society for people with a healing touch, I cherish a fervent hope that this resource will become available to the countless people who could use it to learn how to enhance their caring attitudes and skills.
An artistic and uplifting video that gives us the tools to enhance the lives of those who are suffering, from whatever cause.
Communicating with Compassion is by far the best teaching tool I could use in the area of listening and communication skills. Thank you for your great effort to teach us all that compassion is the key element to a healing encounter.
When I saw Communicating with Compassion it was love at first sight. I use it with new trainees and at monthly in-service meetings. This video is an education for the heart as well as the head.
Compassion in Action
For Team Leaders to Inspire Compassion
When Times Get Tough
Compassion comes naturally when people are suffering. But what about when those people are upset or difficult to work with? Is it possible or practical to extend compassion when the going gets tough?
Compassion in Action shows the art of communicating with patients when difficult emotions arise. Using real-life footage from authentic situations the video gives a fresh look at an age old problem: How to keep caring when patients are difficult?
Audience members learn time-tested strategies while building the confidence and skill to be effective in difficult interactions.
SimonFox,Executive Producer
The Medicine of Compassion
Compassion in Action shows the art of communicating with patients when difficult emotions arise. Using real-life footage from authentic situations, the video gives a fresh look at an age old problem: How to keep caring when patients are difficult. Viewers learn new approaches and gain confidence, encouragement and motivation for being effective in difficult interactions.
Authentic examples of how experienced caregivers respond to patients who are:
- Uncooperative
- Afraid of losing their autonomy
- Confused
- Grieving
- Having unrealistic expectations
- Forgetful
- Unable to speak
- Argumentative
- Frustrated
- Angry
- Feeling sorry for themselves
- In a coma
- Dying Young
This package includes:
- 43-minute DVD with 12 chapters, each illustrating different communication challenges in caregiving.
- An optional introduction from the Executive Producer to give your audience a powerful context for your session.
- 128-page Leader Guide shows how to use the video as a starting point for a discussion or seminar. It includes a proven Five-Step Training Program to cultivate compassion using group dialogue, group exercises, individual practice and self-evaluation.
- Also included are seven discussions, a video time index, and elements to custom-design your own seminars with suggestions for a single one-hour class, a 2-4 hour seminar, or a series of seminars.
- 3 Handouts formatted for easy copying. Five pages summarize the essential points of the video and expand upon them for in-depth discussion and training.
- Handouts – formatted for easy copying. Three pages summarize the essential points of the video and expand upon them.
- Beautiful production, original musical score and real-life scenes.
Lifetime Online Access
- Video Streaming on-demand (45 min. video)
- Leader’s Guide downloadable PDF (128 pages with 5-step training program, discussion questions, class exercises, video index with teaching points for each scene)
- Audience Handouts downloadable PDF (5 pages summarize the key points)
Three-Day Online Video Rental
- View Compassion in Action video to review the program.
- Instructions to help you facilitate a reflective conversation about the program. 4-page downloadable PDF
Being Effective in Emotionally Difficult Conversations
Participants learn to:
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Build healing partnerships that grow stronger despite the difficulties.
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Turn a difficult conversation into a discovery conversation.
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Identify the three layers of a challenging conversation to find clues to the solution.
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Recognize the pivotal moment when a conversation can turn around.
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Face challenges with heart.
What Team-Leaders say
about this course:
A Wonderful follow up to the The Medicine of Compassion. It stimulates a discussion on more complex situations where demostrating compassion can be difficult.
Compassion is often forgotten in the skill driven curriculums of nursing schools. This program brings some much-neede attention to the core of nursing. The scenarios were informative and genuine. Thank you for providing quality programs for nurses from every generation”
An opportunity to see what a profound difference human caring makes in the lives of others! Real life situations show how to engage with others in a way that cares for their spirit, their emotions, their humanness. I will be using Compassion in Action as a teaching tool for professional and volunteer caregivers
Scenes from
Compassion in Action:
An insightful look at experts delivering emotionally supportive care to very difficult patients. A clear demonstration of the need for, and value of, compassion in health care.
I love this video! It’s a wonderful, candid example of compassion at work in a variety of health care settings. It shows the humanity and joy we can find – even in the tougher situations – if we approach them in the right way.
Compassion in Action is a beautiful, practical demonstration of how to infuse difficult conversations with love.
A wonderful follow up to The Medicine of Compassion. It stimulates a discussion on more complex situations where demonstrating compassion can be difficult
What is so special and valuable about this video is seeing actual spontaneous reactions in real-time. They demonstrate and inspire the art of being present and observant
Oxygen for Caregivers
For Team Leaders to Inspire Compassion
Guard Against Burnout,
Build Resilience, and
Sustain Compassion.
This program is for everyone on the front lines of health care: nurses, physicians and allied health professionals, including first responders—all who are witness to human suffering on a regular basis. Here is a powerful tool to protect your team from compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout.
Oxygen for Caregivers is a multidisciplinary team-building seminar with three inspiring two-hour sessions that improve morale, performance, and retention.
Easy to teach, it comes with all the audio-visual and printed materials needed to lead the program and inspire your team.
It is a gift you can give to show you’ve got their back.
Oxygen for Caregivers includes:
- 35-min. documentary-style video.
- 76-page Workbook PDF file with permission to copy.
- 76-page Leader Guide PDF file.
- 5 bonus video clips & 40 PowerPoint slides.
- Class formats for three inspiring in-service sessions:
- Real-World Self-Care
- Where Wellness Begins
- The Journey into Wholeness
- Video subtitled in Spanish and English.
Beautiful production, original music & real-life wisdom.
Physical Program Materials in the Mail
- DVD disc includes:
- 35 min. documentary style video
- 5 bonus video clips
- 40 PowerPoint slides
- Subtitles in Spanish and English.
- CD disc includes:
- Leader’s Guide (76-page printable PDF with class formats for three in-service sessions including discussion questions, class exercises, video index)
- Particiapnt Workbook (76-page printable PDF file on CD)
Lifetime Online Access
- Video Streaming on demand (35 min. video, plus five bonus video clips)
- 40 PowerPoint slides
- Leader’s Guide (76-page printable PDF with class formats for three in-service sessions including discussion questions, class exercises, video index)
- Particiapnt Workbook (76-page printable PDF)
- 3 hours of continuing education (California BRN# CEP16529)
Three-Day Online Video Rental
- View Oxygen for Caregivers video to review the program.
- Instructions to help you facilitate a reflective conversation about the program. 4-page downloadable PDF
Oxygen for Caregivers
Participants learn to:
- Build three pillars of resilience.
- Understand the occupational hazards of caregiving and the difference between compassion fatigue, burnout, moral distress, and vicarious trauma.
- Recognize their own early warning signs of distress and take steps to protect themselves.
- Make self-care choices they can commit to, because they fit with their own lifestyle and goals.
- Support one another in creating and sustaining a wellness plan for lifelong well-being.
Oxygen for Caregivers was a runaway success when it premiered at our Care4You Compassion Fatigue conference. I am still receiving rave reviews from nurses, social workers, and first responders. It is a highly useful, much needed resource.
This remarkable program provides wonderful, unrehearsed insights from our colleagues who have successfully coped with stress for decades. I highly recommend it.
Oxygen for Caregivers is a true gift for all of those who work in a helping field. It is a thoughtfully crafted message that illuminates the profound need for self-care and self-compassion as the core principles for assisting others.
This remarkable program provides wonderful, unrehearsed insights from our colleagues who have successfully coped with stress for decades. I highly recommend it.
Scenes from
Oxygen for Caregivers:
It kept me riveted for the entire program. The variety and sincerity of those interviewed, and the broad range of issues and experiences, from hospice to firefighters, from doctors and nurses to search & rescue workers, drew me in immediately. Best of all, the not overly complicated nor overly simplistic presentation was useful and clear. I think it’s terrific.
I work with the military, first responders around world, the wilderness medicine community, and emergency physicians and residents at Stanford Hospital. This is a wonderful resource to share with my emergency medicine faculty and residents. Please keep up the good work. It is fascinating and much needed.
These resources are beautifully created and remind us of the importance of self-care. The videos and workbooks provide wonderful tools for all healthcare professionals
Oxygen for Caregivers is an exceptional program… it gives a systematic method of self reflection so that we can recognize burnout in ourselves and our colleagues and take important steps to heal. It gives pragmatic tips on how we can pay attention to early signs of burnout and address them constructively. This program helps us take better care of ourselves and better care of each other, so that we can provide better care for our patients.”