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Course ID: SA115
Title: Helping Others While Sustaining Yourself
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Time: 1pm EST (lasts approx. 60-75 min.)
Facilitator: Dr. Monica Galloway Burke
Price: $75
This is a LIVE WEBINAR presented via Zoom.

OVERVIEW
Student affairs professionals are passionate about supporting students through challenges, transitions, and moments of growth. Yet the emotional demands of helping others, responding to crises, managing competing priorities, and navigating an increasingly complex higher education environment can gradually diminish energy, resilience, and well-being. Sustaining a meaningful career requires more than simply avoiding burnout; it requires intentionally cultivating habits that promote personal and professional flourishing.

This webinar explores practical, evidence-informed strategies for sustaining yourself while continuing to effectively support others. Participants will examine the realities of helping professions, recognize early signs of stress and compassion fatigue, and explore approaches that foster resilience through awareness, restoration, and intentional action. Through reflection, practical activities, and discussion, participants will develop a personalized plan for creating sustainable helping practices that support both their own well-being and the success of the students they serve.

BRIEF OUTLINE

1. The Reality of Helping Professions
   • Understanding the rewards and challenges of helping roles in higher education
   • Recognizing stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout
   • Reflection: What energizes and what depletes you?
2. Awareness: Recognizing Your Needs
   • Identifying personal stress responses and early warning signs
   • Understanding the Window of Tolerance
   • Activity: Personal Energy Audit
3. Restoration and Renewal: Building Sustainable Practices
   • Mindfulness and emotional regulation
   • Restorative habits and self-compassion
   • Developing healthy work-life rhythms
   • Reflection: Small Moments That Restore You
4. Action: Sustaining Yourself While Helping Others
   • Establishing healthy professional boundaries
   • Sustainable empathy and avoiding over-identification
   • Reflection: Rediscovering Joy and Play
   • Creating a personalized sustainability plan
   • Activity: Stop, Start, Continue
5. Putting It into Practice
   • Applying sustainable helping strategies to real-world scenarios
   • Practical takeaways for everyday practice
   • Reflection, questions, and discussion

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

• Recognize common signs of stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout associated with helping professions in higher education.
• Assess personal habits, stress responses, and patterns that influence long-term personal and professional well-being.
• Apply practical, evidence-informed strategies that promote resilience, emotional regulation, restoration, and sustainable helping.
• Establish healthy professional boundaries while maintaining compassionate, student-centered relationships.
• Identify meaningful practices that cultivate joy, connection, and renewal as part of a sustainable approach to helping others.
• Develop a personalized action plan to support long-term well-being while continuing to effectively serve and empower college students.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This webinar is designed for:

• Student affairs professionals at all levels
• Faculty
• Graduate students

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Dr. Monica Galloway Burke is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Counseling and Student Affairs at Western Kentucky University and serves the Faculty Fellow for ONE WKU in the Office of the Provost. With more than 28 years of experience in higher education and a professional background in mental health and student affairs, her teaching, scholarship, and professional service focus on helping relationships, student development, student well-being, leadership, and student success.  READ MORE →

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