Course Details
Date: Tuesday 26 May
Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm AWST (3 hours)
Location: Microsoft Teams (interactive, with polls, chat, and group reflection through breakout rooms)
Cost: $199 per participant (includes GST)
Workshop Overview
This three-hour facilitated workshop offers a practical, contemporary approach to burnout prevention grounded in current Work, Health and Safety (WHS) obligations, with a strong focus on managing psychosocial hazards. Rather than framing burnout as an individual resilience issue, the workshop positions it as a foreseeable outcome of unmanaged risks such as high workload, exposure to distressing material, low control, role conflict, and inadequate support.
Through short inputs, guided reflection, scenario-based learning, and a workplace-specific case study, participants will explore how workplace conditions and cumulative demands shape chronic stress and burnout risk. The workshop supports individuals and teams to name their realities, identify pressure points, and map stress patterns without blame or pathologising.
Participants will develop a Sustainability Plan to support follow through – covering boundaries, support pathways, workload conversations, and realistic agreements, and walk away with practical tools they can apply immediately in their own teams. This workshop is designed for those seeking deeper learning, shared language, and actionable strategies that create safer, more supportive work environments.
Who is this course suitable for?
This workshop is designed for professionals and teams who want practical, evidence informed strategies to reduce burnout risk and strengthen psychosocial safety, including:
- Busy professionals across any sector seeking sustainable ways to manage high demands and maintain wellbeing.
- Corporate teams working in environments of rapid change, heavy workloads, and performance pressure.
- Not-for-profit and community sector workers navigating high emotional labour, complexity, and chronic resource constraints.
- Leaders, People & Culture / HR, and WHS specialists who play a key role in shaping safe, supportive systems and championing organisational wellbeing.
Resources provided
A key outcome is an actionable long-term Sustainability Plan—supported by templates—so teams can translate insights into practical agreements, support pathways, boundary practices, and workload conversations that are aligned with wellbeing and safer work.
Participants receive a comprehensive participant pack, to embed this learning in their workplace, such as, sustainability plan template, action planning sheets, evaluation tools, and a workbook that includes a stress quick-check tool, practical strategy prompts, support/signposting (signals for stress), and a ‘next steps in 7 days’ plan.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this short course, participants will be able to:
- Define burnout and distinguish it from general stress, chronic stress, and compassion fatigue.
- Describe what burnout prevention means within a WHS context, including the increasing legislative focus on psychosocial hazards.
Identify key psychosocial hazards relevant to organisational roles and teams (e.g. workload, role conflict, exposure to distressing material, low control, poor support) and understand how these link to organisational WHS responsibilities. - Differentiate between organisational responsibilities (identifying, assessing, and controlling psychosocial risks) and individual responsibilities (noticing early warning signs, using supervision and support, setting boundaries, and reporting concerns).
- Recognise early warning signs of burnout in themselves and colleagues and know what internal and external supports are available.
- Develop practical, realistic strategies to support sustainable work over time, including individual practices, team reflections, and ideas that inform and connect to organisational WHS and wellbeing planning.
Note
A minimum of 90% attendance and Polls participation will be required for successful course completion.
Participants will be notified when their Certificate of Completion is ready to be accessed through their Student Portal.
If withdrawn 48 hours before the course date and time (AWST), the participant is eligible for a full refund, where this request can be made by emailing rto@communicare.org.au, otherwise, no refund is available.
Deferral to a future course may only be possible for extenuating circumstances.
