2025 Free Webinar Series: #9 The Art of Falling Up: Navigating Second-Hand Trauma with Purpose and Self-Compassion

For those who serve, support, and show up for others—advocates, helpers, INCLUDING interpreters—vicarious or second-hand trauma is not just a risk, it's often a reality. Bearing witness to pain, day after day, can leave invisible wounds and feel like an invisible weight. The urge to power through, stay strong, or "be resilient" can leave little room for real healing. This webinar offers a space to acknowledge some of the toll of helping work and explore some (non-clinical) ways to move through without losing yourself in the process. Through the "Falling Up" framework, we’ll explore how to transform emotional fatigue into intentional growth. This conversation is for anyone who carries the weight of others’ stories—and is ready to reclaim their own.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1.      Understand vicarious trauma and differentiate it from related concepts such as burnout and compassion fatigue.

2.      Recognize some of the emotional and physiological signs of vicarious trauma

3.      Apply the Falling Up framework (Feel, Rest, Plot, Rise, Cheer) as a practical guide for promoting emotional well-being.

4.      Identify personalized strategies for emotional regulation, boundary-setting, and sustainable self-compassion.

5.      Reframe healing and resilience as ongoing, non-linear processes that include celebration, reflection, and reconnection to purpose.

ASL interpreters will be provided!

CEUs are available for 1 CCHI CE hour, 1 ATA CEP, and 0.1 RID CEU*. 0.1 IMIA/NBCMI CEU is pending. Certificates will be issued only to those viewing the live webinar. Certificate download instructions will be emailed to attendees 24-48 hours after the webinar has taken place.

*Additional processing fees apply for RID