Empathy Overload and Compassion Fatigue in Animal Advocacy
Animal Justice Academy Lunchtime Live
With Kimberly Carroll
12pm - 1pm
It's the Catch-22 for animal advocates... You get into animal activism because you're a sensitive, caring being, and then you end up with a front-row seat 24/7 to the worst animal suffering imaginable!
Empathy overload happens when you’re constantly exposed to the suffering of others without enough resources to properly process it. Compassion fatigue is the depletion of feeling and caring capacity because of empathy overload. Both are serious problems in the animal advocacy movement that cause activists to work ineffectively and sometimes drop out altogether.
In this workshop, we'll explore 3 major antidotes to these challenges:
1. Better boundaries to provide some sanctuary from the constant onslaught of painful situations and stimulus
2. Tactical techniques to regularly process emotional pain
3. A short daily rountine to build up your inner resilience
And we won't just talk about these strategies, we'll test-drive them in our time together, so you can come out of our session with some relief.
*We invite folks to have their video on during this event to enhance the sense of community, but it’s not mandatory
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About Kimberly Carroll:Â
Kimberly is a coach for changemakers, campaigns strategist with Animal Justice, director of Animal Justice Academy, and a director with the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank. With over 15 years as a coach and 20 years as an activist, Kimberly works with mission-driven leaders, social entrepreneurs, and activists on the inner shifts, high-performance habits, and strategies to make them unstoppable. She’s helped empower thousands of activists and counseled those in high-stress positions like undercover investigators. Prior to her current roles in animal advocacy, Kimberly co-created the original “Why love one but eat the other?” multi-year transit ad campaign in Canada and was one of the founders of Mercy For Animals Canada—helping bring the first undercover farmed animal investigations to television in Canada. She’s also passionate about environmental activism, democratic reform, and amplifying Indigenous and Black voices.
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