COMPASSION IN THERAPY SUMMIT 2022, 20-24 APRIL, ONLINE

  Compassion fatigue doesn’t exist, said Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “From a neuroscientific perspective and in contemplative traditions, there’s no such thing as compassion fatigue – instead it’s empathy fatigue which happens when we haven’t learnt how to transform empathy into compassion,” said Davidson, who has published many papers on mindfulness and compassion. “Empathy can be very toxic,...