Events
Next event 19 June Wellington training; early bird discount ends 01 April.
The "Start Here and Keep Going" Training
A guide to developing regenerative practices after burnout
A day long training to reflect, regroup, and revive
Description:
Burnout doesn't arrive all at once but neither does recovery. Start Here and Keep Going is a full-day interactive training designed for therapists who have experienced burnout, who want to build practices that prevent it, or who support clients navigating burnout for themselves. Drawing on evidence-based models of burnout and moral injury, Kerry weaves together personal experience, case examples, and a set of novel science-based skills, moral elevation, fierce compassion, and the art of half-heartedness, to offer both a clear understanding of how we get to burnout and how we clear a grounded path out. The day closes with a restorative orientation back to your work and an extended reflective writing exercise to help you build a regenerative practice that is genuinely yours.
This training is for you if:
- You are a therapist, helper, or caregiver who has experienced burnout, in the past, now, or expect to in the future.
- You want to develop sustainable practices before burnout takes hold.
- You work with clients who are navigating burnout or moral injury and want a richer framework to bring to that work.
- You feel like you should know all this, but practically you find our work really hard and depleting. (That makes sense, because all of this is so much easier said than done!)
By the end of the day, you will:
- Understand the evidence-based pathways to burnout and moral injury (and recognise your own story in them)
- Have language and frameworks for three sustaining skills that are rarely taught but are immediately usable
- Reconnect with what you love about your work (and what you love about the rest of your life)
- Leave with a personalised written plan for regenerative work and nonwork practices that you can begin immediately
JUNE 2026 In Person Training
Early Bird Pricing ends 10 April 2026.
Date: Friday 19th June 2026, 9 AM to 3 PM
Cost: $230 NZD (GST inclusive)
Where: Eastbourne, Wellington Region
JULY 2026 In Person Training
Sponsored by the New Zealand Psychological Society
Date: week of 20 July
Cost: to be determined
Where: Wellington Region
NOV 2026 Online Training
Book your spot now, $50 off ends 01 September
Date Saturday 14 Nov 2026, 9 AM to 3 PM
Cost: $230 (GST inclusive)
Where: Zoom online
*A note from Kerry: This will not be the standard boring, draining, 'death by powerpoint' webinar. In response to overwhelming demand, this online version will include all the good stuff described above, plus connection with local and regional colleagues, and some surprise treats to ease the friction of online work.
More information about this training.
All participants receive a 50+ page workbook with take home materials
More: This one-day professional development workshop integrates current research in compassion science, moral psychology, and occupational health to explore recovery, regeneration, and sustained vitality following professional burnout.
Through discussion, reflection, and experiential learning, participants will develop evidence-based regenerative practices that enable an ethical, resilient return to clinical work and life.
15 September 2026 - online training for helpers
"ACT For Burnout"
Date: 15th March 2026
Where: Online (Zoom), register here
- Work burnout is skyrocketing among helping professionals. This 90-minute workshop is for anyone supporting people who are struggling with burnout: clients, supervisees, colleagues, or yourself.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-informed approaches offer unique, evidence-based additions to our understanding of burnout and to the standard interventions often used to treat it (Towey-Swift, Lauvrud, & Whittington, 2022).
- In this workshop, I’ll outline how an ACT framework can help clinicians use evidence-based individual and system-level practices to identify, alleviate, and prevent burnout.
What is different about Kerry’s approach to burnout?
- She actively engages the tension between the very real system-level drivers of burnout and the reality that meaningful relief often begins with individual change.
- She helps clinicians understand the connection between values and vulnerabilities—and why this matters for resilience and returning to work post-burnout.
- This fully revised 2026 training includes two important additions:
- integrated shame and moral injury interventions, essential for those working in high-risk and service-focused professions
- a review of cognitive distortions common among helpers that fuel burnout (and what to do about them)