Small Group Program
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12 - 1.30pm AEDT
24 Oct 2024 - 24 Apr 2025
Join a small group of peers to learn, explore, connect, express and reflect through shared discussion, music and creative arts experiences.
Nourishing health professionals to hold onto themselves whilst holding space for others. Tempo offers evidence-based, practical and immersive supports and professional learning, incorporating neuroscience, and creative arts, music and somatic processes, within a framework of social justice, community and collective care.
You love your job but at times it's heavy going.
Helping others at work doesn't mean that you have to go it alone.
Sometimes, you need a helping hand.
Small Group Program
Zoom online
12 - 1.30pm AEDT
24 Oct 2024 - 24 Apr 2025
Join a small group of peers to learn, explore, connect, express and reflect through shared discussion, music and creative arts experiences.
Tailored support to meet your needs and build inner resources for positive change.
Find relief, understanding and support in a small and confidential group of peers.
Connection, nourishment and practical learning for teams, workplaces and community groups.
Not sure what's best for you or your team? Contact me for a chat to see how I can support you.
As an allied health clinician with over 20 years experience, including trauma expertise over the last 12 years, I know very well the toll that caring for others can take. I’ve worked in large public hospitals, small private hospitals, primary schools, high schools, early childhood centres, community mental health and child and adolescent therapy services. I have extensive experience in providing therapeutic support to families, individuals and services experiencing extreme stress, and working alongside, and in consultation with, the educators, emergency service workers and health professionals who support them.
I know the impact of this work.
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Why should healthcare workers consider group supervision?
For workers in a helping role, professional supervision is an essential component of the work: it supports positive outcomes for clients, maintenance of ethical standards, the development of skills and, importantly, the wellbeing of workers. Whilst most workplaces strive to offer regular supervision, the reality is often far from ideal. This blog explores how supervision groups outside of your workplace can offer a much needed space for reflection, connection and mutual support for teachers and healthcare workers.
Is your music playlist helping you?
Creating playlists for fun, to exercise and support us through hard times has always been a great thing to do. You might not think about it much, but your music playlist impacts your mood, your thoughts and your body. And if you're having a hard time, it's worth noticing if the music you listen to is helping.... or not.
Is it time for an anti-self care revolution?!
All too often, the response for struggling healthcare workers is an individual one: to access counselling support and to 'do more self-care’. Whilst it is important for health professionals to look after themselves, this individualistic focus misses the point: it locates the problem in individual workers, when these are political, cultural and systemic issues. In reality we need a multi-pronged solution across all levels: political, organisational, within services and teams, as well as individually. Is it time for an anti-self care revolution?
The overwhelm for healthcare workers is real, and can come at significant costs - for workers, patients and, as I recently discovered, for the families of patients too. The 'Zone of Fabulousness' , a concept from Vikki Reynolds, offers a way of understanding the dynamics and consequences for service users and workers alike. How we can we as health professionals keep ourselves well - for the sake of our clients as well as ourselves? Have a look below.
Building connection through art and music
More and more it seems to me that connection is the key to creating a world of kindness, compassion and positive change. In an increasingly disconnected world, it can be really hard to stay connected, particularly when times are tough. Since the beginning of humanity we have turned to music and art to comfort, soothe, mourn, unite and celebrate. For those days when feeling seen, heard and understood by others feel far away, music and art help us to connect to ourselves, to human experience, and to the world around us.
For too long there has been a focus on self care when we work in systems with groups of people, in community. We know that community, authentic connection and support are essential for our survival: the pandemic taught us just how vital we are for each other, and polyvagal theory confirms that the need to come together for safety and support is built into our neurobiology. So what is collective care? What does it mean? Why is it so important? Take a look below to find out more.
Header image: Jason Charles Hill