Self-Care for Helping Professionals – new for 2026
Course overview
Duration: One 4-hour session
Format: In-person at one of our Manchester venues
Cost: Pricing details are available upon inquiry
Supporting the wellbeing of those who support others.
Working in a helping profession can be incredibly rewarding, but supporting people through difficult experiences can also take a significant emotional and psychological toll. Over time, high workloads, emotional demands and exposure to trauma can contribute to stress, burnout and compassion fatigue.
This practical course helps participants recognise the signs of burnout, build resilience and develop sustainable self-care strategies that support both personal wellbeing and professional effectiveness.
Who is this course for?
This course is ideal for:
- Frontline health and care staff
- Community workers
- Volunteers
- Managers and team leaders
- Support workers
- Anyone working in a helping profession
What you’ll learn
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:
- Recognise the signs and symptoms of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue
- Understand factors that can impact wellbeing and resilience
- Assess your own wellbeing and identify potential risks
- Develop practical strategies for maintaining healthy boundaries
- Create a personalised self-care toolkit
- Build resilience and support long-term wellbeing in demanding roles
During the session you’ll explore:
- What self-care is and why it matters
- Anxiety, stress, burnout and compassion fatigue
- Recognising early warning signs
- Assessing wellbeing and resilience
- The seven pillars of self-care
- The importance of healthy boundaries
- Developing your own self-care toolkit
Why choose Big Life?
For more than 25 years, Big Life has worked alongside people and communities to improve health, wellbeing and life chances.
Our training is informed by experience across health, care and community settings and delivered by skilled practitioners who understand the challenges facing today’s workforce.
We offer:
- Experienced and passionate trainers
- Practical, immediately usable skills and tools
- Person-centred and strengths-based approaches
- Training informed by real-world health, care and community experience
- Flexible learning that can be applied directly to your role
Ready to find out more?
Whether you’re looking to support your own wellbeing or commission training for a team, we’d love to talk.
Email: training@thebiglifegroup.com