Training professionals and scholars to adapt, recover, and grow in a rapidly changing world.
Human Resilience in the Age of AI
Learn to navigate AI Distress & anxiety, tech reliance, compassion fatigue, vicaroius trauma, and rapid global change.
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Leading the way.
A talent for breaking new ground.
Our founder, Taryn Hughes, developed the first-ever workplace group coaching program for Compassion Fatigue in 2017, establishing FH&A as a global leader in addressing workplace vicarious and secondary trauma.
In 2024, Ms. Hughes authored the defining white paper on AI Distress, identifying it as an emerging adjustment struggle for people affected by rapid AI implementation and its impact on daily life.
To date, FH&A has trained thousands of frontline professionals and government workers worldwide to manage and mitigate the effects of witnessing human suffering on the job and thrive in life.
Today, we are proud to expand our services to address new workplace stressors, including AI-related stress, anxiety, burnout, and tech reliance.
Forest Hughes & Associates creates ethical, human-centered programs that support technological progress while preserving what makes us deeply human.
Manage the cost of caring.
Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma prevention and mitigation training + group coaching programs.
Staff Training
Professional Development
Our Services
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Professional development training on AI-related stress, anxiety, compassion fatigue, burnout, resilience, tech’s undue influence, and more.
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Customized workshops and training on AI-related stress, anxiety, compassion fatigue, burnout, resilience, tech’s undue influence, and more.
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Our half and full day retreats train, restore, and support staff so that they can better navigate rapid global change and today’s workplace stressors.
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One-on-one coaching support sessions help professionals navigate AI-related stress, anxiety, compassion fatigue, burnout, tech’s undue influence, and more.
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Staff professional development, family engagement, scholar dance programs and more all available in bilingual and multi-media formats.
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AI Stress & Anxiety
School Programs
We are an active DOE vendor and a certified NYC & NYS M/WBE. Meet us in-person at all the Doing Business with NYCPS Principal conferences!
Staff Mental Health,
Family Engagement,
Bilingual Programming,
Scholar Dance
Resilience Debrief Journal
Pre-order our signature journal for your staff.
This journal was developed to help frontline workers build resilience and manage work-related traumatic stress. Prompts encourage professionals to pause at the end of each day, reflect, reconnect with themselves, and gain a new perspective on work events and stressful situations.
*Minimum order requirements apply
Coaching Support
White Papers:
A Leader's Guide: Strategies to Protect Employees from AI Stress & Anxiety
A Guide to Understanding and Addressing AI Distress at work.
Positive change
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Our participants have reported their increased confidence and skills led to them seeking promotions or feeling more prepared to meet the requirements of their recent promotion.
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Participants frequently report trusting their colleagues and leaders more after attending our programs. They also demonstrate kinder and more open communication.
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Participants have reported our programs kept them from hurting themselves, and helped them overcome depression, anxiety, and burnout.
They also report developing and maintaining new habits such as journaling, meditating, and scheduling peer support. -
Participants have reported our programs support them in building and maintaining healthy habits, such as walking daily, eating healthy, and sleeping regularly.
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Participants report being more open to change, and able to navigate change with confidence where they were previously distrustful, fearful, and closed off.
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Participants report a higher level of optimism, resilience, and job satisfaction after attending our programs.
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Participants frequently report choosing to stay in their careers and positions as a result of attending our programs.
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Participants frequently demonstrate and report more reflective decision-making, great problem-solving abilities, less burnout, errors, and reactiveness.
Training the whole person.
Professional Development and Group Coaching for Educators
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."
— C.G. Jung
