Recognizing and Healing through Secondary Trauma & Burnout within the Corporate Social Impact Field

This session is tailored to help professionals in the Corporate Social Impact field address the impact of secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout, and further, integrate an intersectional and anti-racist analysis to fieldwork. Participants will leave with a clear definition of trauma and burnout and have learned tangible self-care tools and frameworks that can support burnout and trauma recovery.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the prevalence of trauma and how this connects to the Corporate Social Impact field

• Identify the differences between compassion fatigue/secondary trauma and burnout

• Explore the critical need for intersectionality and an anti-racist framework within the Corporate Social Impact field

• Learn how trauma-informed principles and radical self-care ties into fostering individual and organizational resilience