Peer support listeners have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference through listening, caring, and offering support to others. To do this well, they also need healthy boundaries that protect both themselves and those they support. This engaging, interactive 90-minute workshop explores how to care deeply without carrying another person's burdens. Through real-life scenarios, discussion, and practical skill-building, participants will learn how to set compassionate boundaries, communicate them with confidence, and support others in a way that is both effective and sustainable. Participants will leave with practical tools they can use immediately to strengthen their peer support relationships while preventing burnout, compassion fatigue, and role confusion.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Define healthy boundaries within a peer support relationship.
Recognize common boundary challenges.
Differentiate empathy from responsibility.
Practice respectful boundary-setting conversations.
Apply practical strategies for maintaining emotional wellbeing while supporting others.
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About Marg Van Herk-Paradis
Marg is President and a Senior Consultant at Credence, specializing in supporting organizations with addressing conflict, transforming organizational cultures, and clarifying organizational missions and visions. Marg has worked across North America, facilitating, coaching, and mediating for groups and individuals. Marg works with businesses, universities, schoolboards, government funded agencies, social service organizations, notfor-profits, and faith-based organizations. Marg brings over 25 years of experience in not-for-profit organizations, including 17 years in leadership positions. Marg has a BA in Applied Social Science from Concordia University in Montreal and a Master of Theological Studies from Conrad Grebel University College, affiliated with the University of Waterloo. Marg is a Qualified Mediator with the ADR Institute of Canada and a member of the ADR Institute of Ontario. Marg is a certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) trainer and a regular instructor in Conrad Grebel's Certificate program.