Free FULL TRAINING PACK

Training Module: Volunteer Wellbeing & Preventing Burnout

A practical, evidence-informed training pack helping volunteer managers recognise burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress — and build organisations where volunteer wellbeing is genuinely supported, not just assumed.

This free resource allows you to experience a full training pack and make use of it in your organisation 
Author

Kay Curtis

Resources

Handouts, Activity Sheets & Case Studies

Experience Level Needed

Beginner

Access

Download and Online Access

Duration

3 Hours

Price

£FREE

What's included?

  • Session Timetable
  • 7 Structured Activities
  • Trainer notes
  • Handouts and Worksheets 
  • Session Extension Activities
  • Signposting and Crisis Resources Guide
  • Financial Wellbeing Checklist
  • Fully Guided Session
  • Facilitator Training Slides
  • Self Study Training Deck

Overview

A practical, evidence-informed training pack equipping volunteer managers to recognise burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress — and to build organisations where volunteer wellbeing is genuinely supported.
The pack enables participants to:
- Understand burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress — and how to spot them early
- Identify the organisational factors that increase burnout risk — and the practical steps to reduce them
- Understand their legal duty of care to volunteers under health and safety and equality law
- Feel confident having wellbeing conversations with volunteers who are struggling
- Assess their organisation's current wellbeing infrastructure and prioritise improvements
- Understand how the cost-of-living crisis affects volunteer wellbeing — and what to do about it
- Leave with a specific, time-bound action plan for change

Objective

The pack covers:

- What burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress actually are
- The stages of burnout — and how to intervene before crisis point
- Why volunteers burn out — organisational risk factors and protective factors
- The legal framework — duty of care, Equality Act 2010, and reasonable adjustments
- How to have an effective wellbeing conversation with a volunteer
- The six building blocks of a wellbeing-aware organisation
- Financial wellbeing and the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on volunteers
- Trauma-informed practice principles applied to volunteer management
- Personal and organisational action planning
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