Available June 25, 2024
Caring for Self & Others
Transforming Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Soul Loss
Caring for Self & Others is a self-care manual for people who care for people. Many of us have experienced high levels of stress during the pandemic in health care and education.
David Kopacz, MD
A Student of Change; A Teacher of Transformation
As a student and teacher of change & transformation, David is keenly interested in the growth of individuals and systems. Change is an incremental adjustment that leads to you changing what you do. Transformation, however, requires a total commitment and leads to a change in who you are. As we seek to transform health care systems, and as we seek to shift from states of war to states of peace, transformation must start within each and every one of us.
David and Corbin. Credit: Mary Pat Traxler
Integrating Work, Creativity, Leadership & Collaboration
Doctor and psychiatrist, David Kopacz works with veterans providing holistic mental health in the primary care setting. He has a national VA teaching position as a Whole Health Education Champion — teaching VA staff about Whole Health and person-centered care. David has spoken internationally and developed classes on self-care and well-being for veterans, staff, and health professional students.
Writing about staff wellness, trauma, post-traumatic growth, healing and spirituality, transformation, holistic health, and the healing power of story and creativity, David has authored several books. An ongoing collaboration with co-author, Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) explores a cooperative framework for healing through learning and cultural tradition.
David is a painter, but he also considers the identity of artist more broadly, in that we are all artists looking for the right medium to work in. Art and creativity are often missing from medicine, but are vital dimensions of healing.