As a scholar here are some things I typically did when I first started out on DW.

1. Fairy on free. If you place it, it will get repelled like the rest of the party. Repel may push it out of the "cast zone" of the fairy and it'll stop healing. This is assuming you aren't manually controlling the casts (obey) of the fairy.

2. Us Sacred Soil in upon 2nd repel. This will decrease the damage of any party member in it by 10%. Helps until the tank established threat.

3. Use Rouse, the more healing you can allow your fairy to do until threat is established the better off you are.

4. Pre-cast Adlo, Succor, and/or Stoneskin (if you have it). Do this during the non-running phase just before 2nd repel. It will provide some extra shielding so you can go a few seconds without healing until the tank establishes threat.

In a nutshell, you want to perform as any actions as you can prior to, or immediately after (that don't draw threat), the 2nd repel that will mitigate damage.