Burnout Prevention Program

Managers, Team Leaders, HR Directors

• Recognize the signs, stages, and causes of burnout, in yourself and across your team.
• Understand how stress and the nervous system work, and regulate your reactions through the breath.
• Build a regular, sustainable practice of breathwork, movement, and meditation.
• Manage your energy and attention: set boundaries, protect focus time, and respect your recovery rhythms.
• Foster psychological safety and honest, respectful communication within your team.
• Identify your conditioning, thought patterns, and automatic reactions so you can respond with intention.
• Release expectations, comparison, and the need for control, and act with clarity and confidence.
• Distinguish what you control, what you influence, and what you don't, and build trust in yourself, in others, and in the process.
• Clarify your values and connect your daily work to a larger purpose.
• Build a personal practice plan that sustains the results after the program.

A ten-week leadership and personal development training course for senior management groups in knowledge work organizations such as finance, law, and professional services. The program works on both levels burnout runs on: it builds each participant's capacity to carry load, and surfaces what the organization is asking them to carry.

A two-level approach

• Individual: building each person's capacity through consistent practice woven into daily life
• Organizational: identifying the working conditions that drive exhaustion and making recommendations to address them

Three pillars

• Addressing the physiological and psychological root causes of burnout rather than its symptoms
• Multi-level transformation, with personal resilience and organizational support working in tandem
• Transferable intelligence: the discernment, self-awareness, and capacity for purposeful action that make people more effective in any situation

Seven disciplines, sequenced into protocols

• Yoga, breathwork, and deep rest: nervous-system regulation, recovery, and better sleep
• Meditation: sharper, more sustained attention, with less rumination and reactivity
• Applied philosophy and self-reflection: clearer perspective on stressors and frameworks for hard decisions
• Case studies: application to real, sector-specific cases, peer support, and a shared language

• Recognizing the symptoms, stages, and causes of burnout
• How stress, the fight-or-flight response, and the autonomic nervous system work
• Breathing techniques to regulate stress and the nervous system
• Building a regular practice of breathwork, movement, and meditation
• Energy and attention management, boundaries, and focus time
• Circadian rhythms, recovery, and the importance of rest
• Self-care, self-compassion, and collective care
• Trauma-informed management
• Psychological safety and honest communication within the team
• Nonviolent Communication and guilt-free feedback
• Understanding habits, conditioning, and automatic reactions
• Letting go of expectations, comparison, and the need for control
• Gratitude, contentment, and defining what is "enough"
• Distinguishing control, influence, and acceptance
• Trust in yourself, your team, and the process; delegating without micromanaging
• Clarifying values and purpose at work
• Building a personal practice plan
• A mix of theory, guided practice (breathwork, movement, meditation), and individual and group reflection
• A progressive structure of ten weekly sessions, followed by an Integration Day

• A blend of theory, practical exercises and role-play
• Breathing, meditation and somatic exercises
• Case studies and shared experiences
• Group work and concrete action plans

• Ongoing assessment during practical exercises and role-play
• Non-invasive analysis of stress, anxiety, and mood biomarkers
• Individual and group action plans

Certificate of attendance issued at the end of the training

• Exercise workbook
• Audio and video recordings for the somatic, breathing and meditation exercises

• Validated assessment at the start and close of the program
• Leadership debrief on cohort-level change and the organizational conditions needing improvement