Addressing Burnout: Foundations Course

Burnout does not happen in isolation. It is shaped by the interaction between work, personal life, stress, identity, relationships, physiology, meaning and the wider systems around us. The Addressing Burnout: Foundations Course gives you a practical framework for understanding what burnout is, how it affects you personally and what may be contributing to it. Rather than offering one universal solution, the course helps you build the skills to recognise your own patterns, understand your stress responses and choose strategies that fit your circumstances. Across the course, you will explore: • What Burnout Is: how burnout differs from ordinary stress and tiredness, and how it can affect purpose, effectiveness and quality of life. • Knowing Ourselves: emotional intelligence, social and cultural intelligence, coping mechanisms and the ways we respond under pressure. • Burnout’s Shadow: the parts of ourselves that may sit outside immediate awareness, and how identity, stories and culture can shape our experience. • Burnout Physiology: how stress affects the nervous system, what happens when stress responses remain incomplete and how the body moves towards recovery. • The Solutions Mindset: clarifying your Why, building wisdom and discipline, and choosing changes that are meaningful and sustainable. • Embodiment and Belonging: recognising nervous system states, using active and passive restoration, managing stress more deliberately and exploring practical tools such as Job Crafting. • Village of Supports: building a wider network of emotional, social, practical and professional support around you. By the end of the course, you will have a clearer understanding of your own experience of burnout and a set of tools, reflections and practical strategies you can adapt as your circumstances change.