Restore Your Energy, Refresh Your Passion, Revive Your Career
Why This Course?
Burnout and Compassion fatigue is a big issue facing our profession
Burnout is a common challenge for health professionals, leading to exhaustion, loss of motivation, and reduced professional satisfaction. AHPRA’s 2024 Occupational Therapy workforce survey indicated that the primary reason therapists are leaving the profession is due to mental burnout.
The Restore, Refresh, Revive course dives deep into understanding burnout and equips health professionals with practical tools to restore well-being, prevent burnout in the future, and find joy in their work again.
Led by Nicole, an experienced OT with first-hand knowledge of burnout, this course provides real-world insights, actionable strategies, and a supportive approach to recovery, management and prevention.
In-Depth Curriculum
Six modules and over 8 hours of learning covering personal, occupational, and organisational burnout factors.
Course Features
Self-Paced Learning
Enjoy flexibility with videos, activities and reflective worksheets tackled online at your own pace from the comfort of your home.
Holistic Approach
Practical recovery strategies that focus on self-care, boundary setting, and reconnecting with your professional values.
Who is this Course for?
Ideal for Occupational Therapists who:
Are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or emotionally drained.
Want to learn how to prevent burnout and enhance professional self-care.
Experience compassion fatigue or vicarious trauma.
Are worn down from working in complex systems and schemes.
Feel disengaged, ineffective and are thinking about leaving the profession.
Want to recover from burnout and learn strategies to manage stress long-term.
Need to reconnect with their passion and purpose in OT.
What you’ll learn
All about Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
- Learn the signs of burnout and compassion fatigue and how to measure burnout, compassion fatigue and work engagement.
- Develop an deep understanding of the contributing factors of burnout for OTs and health professionals.
Personal and Environmental Factors
- Identify how individual traits such as perfectionism and people pleasing play a role in burnout.
- Learn about compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and how the nature of caring work can lead to exhaustion.
- Understand that burnout is not an individual issue alone and the key workplace and organisational factors that contribute to burnout.
Burnout Recovery Strategies
- Learn practical tools to complete the stress cycle as well as rest and self care strategies restore balance, and build resilience.
Rediscover and reconnect with OT principles
- Find purpose, meaning and value in your work
Develop a Long-Term Burnout Prevention and Management Plan
Create a personalised strategy to prevent future burnout.
Ready to Restore, Refresh, and Revive?
Burnout is not inevitable and it is both preventable and recoverable. Support and guidance is essential to build compassion resilience and work engagement. For just $199, join the course today and start your journey to feeling energised and inspired again.
Course Details
Designed for OTs by an OT with Lived Experience
The Restore Refresh Revive course is designed specifically for OTs who are feeling burnt out and exhausted or who are keen to learn more about managing and preventing burnout.
The course is structured around 6 Core Modules which are designed to be worked through sequentially at your own pace and include videos, questionnaires, reflective worksheets and exploration of a range of resources to deepen your knowledge and understanding of burnout and what to do about it.
Restore, Refresh, Revive commences with an exploration of burnout through an occupational therapy lens and considering the Person, Environment and Occupational factors that contribute to burnout. Lived experience and professional experiences of burnout and compassion fatigue are shared to understand the breadth of individuals affected by burnout. The course then shifts to exploring a range of strategies and approaches to manage and recover from burnout including addressing causal factors, building compassion resilience, implementing self-care practices and meaningful rest, managing boundaries, self compassion and reconnecting with meaningful OT principles and practices for work satisfaction and engagement.
You will be guided through a process of developing a Burnout Recovery and Prevention Action Plan for ongoing use to sustainably move forward in your professional journey.
Course Curriculum
Module 1. What is burnout and how do I know if I’m burnt out?
Module 2. Understanding Personal Factors
Module 3. Understanding Occupational Factors
Module 4. Understanding Environmental and Organisational factors
Module 5. Burnout Recovery and Prevention
Module 6. Developing your Burnout Management and Prevention Plan
Recent Participant Review
I am thrilled to share my experience with Nicole’s online course, ‘Restore, Refresh, Revive: Burnout Recovery for OTs.’ This course has been a game-changer in understanding and managing burnout in my occupational therapy career. One of the standout features of this course is the extensive research that Nicole has incorporated into the content. Her depth of knowledge and evidence-based information provided truly sets this course apart.
Reflecting on my own journey, I wish I had access to this course during my first few years in the profession. The knowledge and skills imparted would have undoubtedly enhanced my understanding of burnout and equipped me with effective tools for management. However, this course came at the perfect time for me as I have recently transitioned to working for myself. The insights gained have empowered me to proactively implement measures to reduce my risk of burnout, ensuring a sustainable and fulfilling career.
Nicole’s ‘Restore, Refresh and Revive’ course is a beacon of guidance for occupational therapists navigating the challenges of burnout. The meticulous research, abundance of resources, reflective exercises and actionable plans make it an invaluable investment for both personal and professional well-being. I highly recommend this course to fellow OTs at any stage of their career.
– Louise
Meet Your Instructor: Nicole de la Perrelle
Having worked clinically for over 20 years and having had my own experience of burnout, I am deeply committed to supporting other OTs in the profession to build their skills and expertise to be a confident and competent therapist, without burning out.
I hope that you find the Restore Refresh Revive course to be valuable in understanding more about burnout and what can be done about this challenging issue facing our profession. It is my intention that OT’s completing the course can feel seen, heard and supported in their role and to know that burnout is not inevitable and is recoverable and preventable.
I would love to support you to feel passionate and confident in doing your best work- and to feel energised and enthusiastic about your OT career! Please do not hesitate to reach out if you’d like to connect further in exploring this important topic or your professional journey.
Thank you and all the best,
