Qualifications

PhD; M.Pharm; Grad.Dip.Psychophonetics; B.Pharm

Profile

Katherine is the co-founder, trainer and facilitator at Empathic Intervision. With a background in pharmacy practice and Psychophonetics, she completed her PhD as a foundation for empathy practice in organisations within and across sectors. She works with empathy as an essential skill in professional development, well-being, design and prevention of compassion fatigue and burnout in the corporate, NGO and public sector. These skills are applied to leadership, teamwork, diversity, tolerance and ethical decision making.  Her special interest has been in the application of empathy in organizations in South Africa during a time when South Africa is emerging as a democracy with all the challenges and opportunities that go with its cultural, social and resource diversity.

Katherine has a deep understanding and capacity for empathy with people working in extreme conditions. This capacity is essential, as health practitioners require exceptional skills of self-care and well-being; self-management and resilience, empathy and boundaries; to be relevant to the people they serve. They need to be able to protect themselves from the vicarious sharing of trauma and stress experienced by so many of the people they serve.

Katherine has a clarity and dedication to her work, and with her strong commitment to applying the modality of Psychophonetics, as relevant to the social needs of South Africa.

Katherine currently works in person + online primarily with organisations and groups.