Note: Pizza and salad lunch provided 

Target Audience: Direct services staff (counselors, case managers, intake workers, teachers, teacher aides, etc.)

This five-hour workshop will provide direct services staff with the skills and techniques to recognize when personal and professional boundaries have been crossed and how to effectively manage those situations. Topics to be covered will include recognizing compassion fatigue, triggers, knowing the difference between helping and empowering and how setting boundaries can be an effective self-care practice to help prevent burnout. This is a highly interactive workshop that will provide many opportunities for practicing the new skills you learn. 

Facilitator: Tom Ellis, CPC, is the owner and operator of Tom Ellis Coaching in West Newbury, MA.  Tom is a former employee at a Massachusetts Community Action Agency where he counseled and coached youth and adults in education and training programs and in the last 30 years has held multiple positions such as a teacher, trainer, artist, counselor, case manager, IT support, advocate, hospice volunteer, mediator and his current role as Life Coach in various industries. In his spare time, Tom lives on a small farm that is home to alpacas, goats, chickens, ducks and some labs.