Whatever the illness or condition, a compassionate relationship between the practitioner and patient is a vital part of the healing process, but can often become an almost infinite act of selfless giving. The instinct is to help, to sympathise and perhaps to visibly identify with the patient’s feelings and needs.

But combine this with the ever-increasing operational pressures and demands - particularly within the National Health Service and residential care sector - and you can also quickly feel continuously tired, stressed and drained. This could quickly become a contiuing state of being, leading to personal ill-health that undermines your professional capacity to provide effective care and support.

Compassionise is a completely new initiative that will empower medical and care staff working at every organisational level to not only deliver sustainable, compassionate care through holistic personal development, but will also have a positive impact on all professional and personal relationships.

Rather than exercises in patient interaction, Compassionise seeks to create an everyday state of Energised Calm within each member of staff through actively working with the interaction of the inseparable BodyMind relationship. Hence, previous elements of reactive and objective behaviour, frequently driven by operational imperatives, come to be replaced by a calmer, more patient-centred approach - as reflected in the practitioner’s own emotional, mental and physical perspective.

Compassionise is a flexible modular programme combining the innovative holistic approach of Dave Read’s MyQuest Navigator and CoolFire therapeutic programmes with the pioneering work of Sir Tom Lucas – particularly in relation to the spine, back & neck.

Compassionise starts with You. It will positively change how you feel, think and act, enabling you to provide effective, compassionate care by being able to promote and protect your own mental health and holistic wellbeing.

We are not going to teach you “how to”, but enable you to care and interact with patients through combining a number of established therapeutic disciplines that will support you in creating your own personal balance of Mind, Body and Feelings. So whereas your previous state of tension or internal flux might have prompted a reaction, you now begin to make a more objective choice – to be the cause not the effect in all your actions and relationships.

Compassionise will have both an immediate and sustainable impact, comprising of five, highly practical, interactive one-day modules – each being an independent workshop that builds into the complete programme. Staff development is sustained through small Compassionise teams drawn from a strategic cross-section of identified staff who are able to deliver internal training and support. Participants can also access the Compassionise Download Bank that offers a continually expanding resource of guided exercises and techniques. In addition, you can also draw on continuing direct support via Skype, email and phone.

Compassionise will help to transform the compassionate care and dialogue which is at the heart of any patient-practitioner relationship - from the vast number of roles within the NHS to professionals working across a wide range of private health provision, including hospitals, Care Homes, staff agencies - and more...