About
Taking Good Care is a burnout prevention and recovery service. We work with practitioners, teams and organisations in the relational sector to support more sustainable ways of working.
Our work sits at the intersection of nervous system awareness, relational practice, and systems-informed change. We support people to respond to stress and complexity in ways that are grounded, practical, and sustainable over time.
We have a simple conviction: lasting change in care systems requires more than policy and structure. It depends on the often overlooked conditions that shape whether people can actually do their work well — including how they relate to themselves, to each other, and to the demands placed on them.
Informed by lived experience and evidence-based practice, we support practitioners, teams, and organisations to prevent burnout through education, training and systems design.
About Jo
For the past 17 years, Jo Buick has worked across mental health, education, and social justice as a strategist, educator, non-profit founder, and practitioner.
Early on in her career, Jo experienced chronic stress, empathic strain, and burnout whilst in frontline roles in the education and social justice sectors. With little support or resources for recovery, she experienced repeated patterns of work-related stress and strain for many years.
In 2015, Jo began rigorous study and research relating to stress, rest, and trauma, including post-graduate studies in psychology and over 1,000 hours of training in trauma-informed and somatic practice.
In 2017, Jo founded Collective Being, an innovative mental health organisation delivering trauma-informed, body-based programs to people experiencing stress, trauma, and systemic barriers to care. Over the past 9 years, Collective Being has supported 10,000+ people, trained 250+ practitioners, and partnered with 60+ organisations across health, carceral, education, and community settings.
Taking Good Care builds on and expands the work that Jo started with Collective Being. By focusing explicitly on the care sector, Taking Good Care is designed to strengthen the health and wellbeing of those who are most at risk of work-related psychosocial stress, strain and burnout.
Our approach
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The first: stress lives in the body — in our nervous systems, in how we breathe, and in what becomes hard to access under pressure. Our work is trauma-informed and body-centred because that’s where change actually happens.
The second: organisations are living systems too. Like people, they hold patterns. They carry the accumulated weight of how they’ve learned to function — and that shows up in culture, in teams, and in the conditions that people work within every day.
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Relational work is shaped by what happens in our bodies, our relationships, and in the systems we are part of. These three layers are interconnected, and each plays a role in how care is experienced, delivered, and sustained over time.
We work across these dimensions — supporting practitioners to build capacity and restore connection, while working with teams and organisations to shift the conditions that shape everyday practice.
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Our practice is grounded in four commitments. They shape not just what we offer, but how we show up:
Trauma-informed
Systems aware
Strengths based
Feminist and gender-affirming
Our theory of change
If we support practitioners, teams, and organisations together, then relational work can be sustained, and the people doing it can stay well, because real change happens when all three move together.
What we do
Sustainable care is shaped by both people and the systems they work within.
We partner with practitioners, leaders, and organisations through:
training and workshops
leadership development
reflective practice
facilitation and group learning
strategic advisory and consultancy
systems-informed organisational projects.
How we work
We intentionally separate practitioner wellbeing work from leadership and organisational development.
In our experience, practitioners are often better able to engage deeply with stress, care, recovery, and reflective practice in spaces outside workplace pressures and organisational dynamics.
Leadership and organisational development require a different focus — strengthening the cultural, relational, and structural conditions that support sustainable care.
Both are essential to sustaining care. They simply require different approaches.
Our services
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If you work in a relational or emotionally demanding role, this is for you. Taking Good Care supports practitioners to build sustainable practices of care, reflection, and recovery outside the pressures and constraints of the workplace.
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If you lead an organisation or manage a team, TGC works with you to strengthen the conditions that shape relational work. We provide trauma-informed training, leadership development, and systems-informed consultancy.
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We work with healthcare, education, community, and care-sector organisations - supporting more sustainable approaches to workforce wellbeing, psychologically safer cultures, and emotionally demanding work.
COMING SOON
Taking Good Care Conversations
Conversations on care in all its forms — within ourselves, between each other, and across the systems we live and work in.