Events

In 2027, I will offer four day long trainings and four webinars. Much more information below. Register your interest here.

Start Here And Keep Going Trainings

"Keep Going" 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.

Register your interest here.

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 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

2027 Dates For Live and Virtual Events - Sign up here

Friday 12 Feb 2027 "Start Here and Keep Going"
9 AM to 4 PM NZT Wellington Region

Friday 06 Aug 2027 ""Start Here and Keep Going Refresher"
9 AM to 4 PM NZT Wellington Region

Start Here and Keep Going Webinar |
USA Wednesday Feb 10 2027 | 3–5 PM ET / 12–2 PM PT

Start Here and Keep Going Refresher Webinar |
USA Wednesday Aug 04 2027 | 3–5 PM ET / 12–2 PM PT

ACT For Burnout Trainings

Help yourself and your clients reduce the risk of burnout using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Work burnout is skyrocketing among helping professionals. This 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, Kerry outlines 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 2027 training includes these 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)
• case study examples woven throughout teachings.

2027 Dates For Live and Virtual Events - Sign up here

Friday 14 May 2027 "ACT For Burnout - The Basics"
9 AM to 4 PM NZT Wellington Region

Friday 29 Oct 2027 "ACT For Burnout - Advanced Practice"
9 AM to 4 PM NZT Wellington Region

ACT For Burnout Basics Webinar |
USA Wednesday May 12 2027 | 3–5 PM ET / 12–2 PM PT

ACT For Burnout Advanced Practice Webinar |
USA Wednesday Oct 27 2027 | 3–5 PM ET / 12–2 PM PT

Looking for a speaker?

I love speaking to groups small and large about burnout, self-care, moral distress, and compassion practices. Contact me by completing this form to discuss your speaking needs.

Kerry's Talk and Workshop Topics:

• Kerry's first book: The Lies We Tell About Burnout and Self-Care
• Kerry's second book: Start Here: The Story Behind The Practical Guide To Overwhelm
• Sneak peek of Kerry's third book: Keep Going: Regenerative Home and Work Practices After Burnout
• ACT for Burnout
• Wise, Fierce, or Tender: Compassion for Self and Others as a Clinical Tool
• When The News Is Too Much: Staying Grounded And Purposeful Amid A Suffering World
• Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and Compassion Practices
• Burnout And The Neurodivergent Experience

Lots more information here on each training!

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What do past training participants say? Lots of good things!

More information about trainings with Kerry.

All participants receive a workbook of take home materials

More: Workshops 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.

Cost:
Live trainings: $4oo NZD/ person
Webinars: $130 NZD / person (approximately $75 USD)

• Discounted tickets are available for groups and alumni of previous trainings with Kerry. Let me know if this applies to you!