Posted on September 12, 2009 by Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
listening to their anguished voices she too became undone and the lines of life etched in the palms of her hands faded in all the wrong places . . . “Burnout is a physical, social, emotional and spiritual situation where people have really lost themselves and lost meaning.” “Compassion fatigue is “a consequence of caring, and human beings care for each other.” [W]e often don’t recognize that cost.
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Posted on May 30, 2008 by Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
Tom Sherwood, the University’s chaplain and a close friend of Charlie Gordon’s described how Charlie was always helping people make connections with each other. On any given day he would talk to 10 different students from 10 different departments.
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Posted on May 16, 2008 by Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
This photo of Dennis Forcese and Patricia Reynolds [1] was taken in the hallway outside Centre for Initiatives in Education offices, Dunton Tower, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON was taken in April 1, 2002 just before I returned to Iqaluit, NU to complete the “winter term [2]” at Nunavut Arctic College.
Professor Forcese [3] was the [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2008 by Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
Perhaps Sarah was the only one who knew how serious it was. She was an Inuk and a grandmother. She knew the ripple effect of youth suicides.
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
A substantial body of literature on epidemiological studies estimate that between 36 and 81 percent of the general population experience a traumatic event at some time in their lives which is far more often than previously believed (Cusack et al. 2004).
Flynn-Burhoe. 2003. A Fliction: Dawn among the Hummocks, Iqaluit, NU
A US study a team of researchers led [...]
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