The Empathy Trap
What Actually Burns Out People Who Manage and Support Others
A free 60-minute session for people managers, HR leads, and anyone managing change or supporting others through it. Why "compassion fatigue" is the wrong diagnosis, and the more precise one that changes how you design these roles.
27 October, 17:00 CET · Live, virtual · Free
What You'll Walk Away With
Why "compassion fatigue" is usually the wrong diagnosis for burnout in management and HR roles
The three components of empathy, and which one is actually driving depletion
How to self-audit a role, yours or one you manage, for where the real problem is going unchecked
The two separate design failures behind sustained burnout, and which one training alone cannot fix
Why This Session
A major new meta-analysis, 73 studies, roughly 20,600 participants, found something most compassionate leadership content hasn't caught up with yet. It isn't empathy versus compassion. It's one specific, nameable mechanism inside empathy versus everything else.
This session covers:
Why the research says empathy isn't the problem, one specific mechanism inside it is
The two separate organisational failures behind burnout in high-contact roles, and why training alone only fixes one of them
A practical audit you can run on any role on your team this week
Who This Is For
People managers, HR leads, and anyone managing change or supporting others through it.
Format
60 minutes, live, virtual, interactive throughout. Includes a short small-group reflection where you'll apply the framework to a real role on your team.
Register
Space is limited to keep the session interactive.