What is the cost—and reward—of how you show up?
Welcome to the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) Scale Assessment—an opportunity to explore your current Root of Resilience as an educator, helper, caregiver, or leader. Whether you’re in a helping profession such as healthcare, social work, or counseling, this assessment provides essential insights into the balance among compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
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Your capacity matters. The way you feel emotionally and physically influences your ability to connect, respond, teach, lead, and care for others. The ProQOL Insight Tool helps you explore three important areas connected to your Root of Resilience:
Compassion Satisfaction: The pleasure and fulfillment you derive from helping others.
Burnout: The feelings of exhaustion and disconnection that can arise from prolonged stress and workload.
Secondary Traumatic Stress: The emotional toll of hearing about or witnessing the trauma others experience.
Taking this assessment can help you:
Identify Early Warning Signs: Recognize symptoms of burnout or secondary traumatic stress before they become overwhelming.
Reflect on Your Emotional Well-being: Gain insights into how your work affects your mental health, both positively and negatively.
Take Proactive Steps: Learn strategies to maintain a healthy balance between your professional commitments and personal self-care.
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Your responses will generate scores for compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress, helping you better understand the current state of your Root of Capacity.
Simple and Direct: Answer statements based on your feelings and experiences in your profession.
Personal Insights: Your responses will generate a score that reflects your current levels of compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
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In the Rooted in Hope framework, professional quality of life is a measure of your capacity and resilience. Resilience is not about pushing harder or giving endlessly. Healthy capacity grows when people experience support, regulation, connection, meaning, and recovery alongside responsibility and purpose.
Many educators and helping professionals have spent years operating in survival mode without realizing how deeply stress and emotional labor have affected them. The ProQOL Insight Tool creates space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what you need in order to continue doing meaningful work in sustainable ways.
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After completing the Insight Tool, you will receive a personalized Root of Resilience profile to help you better understand your current strengths, stressors, and areas for growth. Your results are designed to move beyond awareness and into meaningful action.
From there, you can choose the next level of support that fits your journey:
Schedule a Coaching Call
Meet one-on-one to process your results, identify patterns that impact your capacity, and develop practical next steps to restore balance, regulation, hope, and sustainability.Join a Get Rooted Package
Dive deeper into personalized growth through guided coaching, reflection tools, accountability, and Rooted in Hope strategies designed to strengthen your resilience and professional well-being over time.Explore Online Classes
Access self-paced learning experiences focused on topics like regulation, discipline, educator wellness, resilience, trauma-responsive practice, hope, and sustainable leadership.
You spend your days helping others grow, regulate, learn, and heal. This is an opportunity to invest in your own roots. Your capacity matters. Your well-being matters. And you do not have to navigate this alone. Take the first step toward a healthier, more fulfilling career, take the ProQOL today!
© B. Hudnall Stamm, 2009-2012. Professional Quality of Life: Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue Version 5 (ProQOL).

