How to power through compassion fatigue with self-care
Live MintFrom ancient gladiator arenas to modern news feeds, humanity has long been drawn to the spectacle of suffering. Seeing someone’s home destroyed may subconsciously provoke relief that it wasn’t our own but with repeated exposure, empathy may be gradually replaced by numbness," says Dr. T.R. Khan may choose to casually describe it all as “part of the job" now but he concurs that while it “has become easier to come to terms with each story, one has to stay tough. “Whether you are a caregiver or a changemaker, your work has you taking in a lot of trauma but no one really ponders much about the question: ‘who is taking care of the caretaker?’" rues Manisha Vinod, co-founder of Bangalore Creative Circus, a space that describes itself as ‘an urban living lab that aims to build communities in art, wellbeing, climate-action and sustainability. The summit saw about 150 people working in sectors like health, education and climate change take part in workshops that included collective breathwork practice, dance and movement and conflict alchemy.
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