For professional and/or informal caregivers:

VoiceWorks for Compassion Burnout.

Length of workshops range from one hour to a full day. Points explored may include:

  • Symptoms of compassion fatigue - physical, emotional and behavioural.
  • Anatomy of your overstressed body.
  • Tools and awareness of overcoming tension, fatigue and stress.
  • Role of meditation, relaxation, exercise, self-massage and vocal expression.
  • Vocal technique, imagery and movement.
  • Vocal improvisation: expressing melody, harmony, rhythm and time.


Get tuned up and Compose Yourself!
  • Tune up your body, your vocal instrument
  • Release tension
  • Connect your emotional tension with rhythm, time and melody
  • Focus on body and breath awareness, vocal technique and movement composition
  • Regenerate, Recharge and Compose Yourself!
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  • Sooke Hospice
  • Saanich Peninsula Palliative Care
  • Ministry of Human Resources & Justice Institute of BC
  • Royal Roads University, Arts and Health series
  • BC Cancer Institute
  • National Palliative Care Conferences
  • World Congress on Psycho-Oncology, Banff, Alberta
  • Victoria Aids and Respite Care Society
  • Intercultural Association with immigrant and refugee women
  • Child and Families Counseling Association
  • Victoria Citizen’s Counseling Centre
  • Victoria Women’s Sexual Assault Centre
  • Vancouver Regional Occupational Therapists Association
  • Recreation Centers National Conference
  • Foster Parents Association

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