The Resilient Practitioner

A deep development program for people who want to feel into their capacity, capability, and resilience.

What if true resilience is deeper, softer, and more innate than we imagine?

Are you navigating empathic strain, emotional labour, secondary stress, complexity, or moral distress at work?

Safe Work Australia's Model Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work has put language around what many of us in the relational sectors already carry in our bodies: our work carries real risk.

Taking Good Care asks the following question: how can we navigate these risks in a way that is human, relational and resilient?

This immersive four-day training is grounded in a somatic and liberatory approach to resilience. Through practical inquiry, evidence-informed frameworks, and body-based practices, we explore how to not only sustain ourselves, but also build the individual and collective capacity to transform what is unsustainable about our work.

What to expect

The Resilient Practitioner is an immersive, trauma-informed professional development program for practitioners, leaders, managers, clinicians, educators, and care-sector professionals working across healthcare, education, mental health, disability, community services, and other relational fields.

Rather than focusing on individual resilience alone, this training recognises that stress, burnout, and moral distress emerge within relationships, organisations, and the broader systems in which care takes place. And that healing exists in the same locations.

In this training, we turn the notion of resilience on its head - creating space to nourish ourselves, think critically, and strengthen our capacity to care for ourselves, each other, and the work we do.

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What we’ll explore

Each training day centres on a different element of the Resilient Practitioner framework. Sessions combine theory, discussion, embodied practice, and reflection to create space for both learning and integration.

  • What does stability feel like?

    Working with the element of earth as an entry point.

    We begin by exploring the foundations of sustainable practice. Together we'll examine the wider conditions shaping care and relational work, introduce the four-element framework, and explore the neurobiology of resilience through the lens of regulation, boundaries, compassion, and groundedness.

  • What does flow feel like?

    Working with the element of water as an entry point.

    This day explores movement, flexibility, and responsiveness. We'll investigate effort, pacing, capability and capacity, flow states, and the difference between adaptive responsiveness and compliance, supported by movement-based practices and embodied inquiry.

  • What does alignment feel like?

    Working with the element of fire as an entry point.

    The third day focuses on values, courage, and purposeful action. Together we'll explore conflict, moral tension, sustainable action, and how to stay connected to what matters without burning ourselves out.

  • What does integration feel like?

    Working with the element of air as an entry point.

    Our final day creates space to consolidate learning and deepen practice. Through reflection, restorative practices, guided rest, and the cultivation of spaciousness, we'll consider how to carry this work into everyday life and professional practice.

  • Following the in-person training, you'll receive a 30-minute one-to-one online mentoring session with Jo. This session provides space to reflect on your learning, explore challenges emerging in practice, and identify practical ways to sustain the work beyond the program.

Questions? Get in touch

Frequently asked questions

Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime.

Get in touch

  • All TGC offerings are trauma-informed and person-centred. Our trainings are relaxed, immersive environments that blend information with embodied practice and reflective work.

    In both online and in-person contexts, training participants are welcome to sit in chairs, lie down, stand, or move throughout sessions.

    We aim to create a restful learning environment that promotes curiosity, creativity, and a safe-enough space for learning.

  • This training is facilitated by Jo Buick. At least one guest facilitator will present specialised content, with their details confirmed before the training commences.

  • Our pricing is tiered, with the higher tiers enabling the lower tiers:

    $675 (underemployed/ unwaged/ carers)

    $865 (waged/ self-funded)

    $1,025 (employer-funded)

    Payment plans available.

    Early bird rates are advertised on the booking page - please check our Humanitix page.

    Further subsidised places are also available for practitioners experiencing financial hardship. Get in touch to learn more.

  • Yes, both iterations provide access to training content, videos and resources on LearnWorlds. Access to the platform is provided upon enrolment.

  • Purchase of this training includes 12 months of access to the materials. Should you like to access the materials for longer than 12 months, please let us know.

  • Yes absolutely. If your employer is covering the costs of this training, the only engagement between them and Taking Good Care will be related to payment. We do not provide employer reports, evaluations, or assessments for our practitioner trainings.

  • Yes. All information that you enter into LearnWorlds (i.e. self-reflections, self-assessments etc) will be only visible to you. Your information will not be accessed by TGC, or shared with anyone else.

  • Yes, you will be able get CPD for this training under most registration bodies. If you have any questions about this, please reach out to us directly.

  • Yes. You can claim all education and training costs that relate to your professional development.

  • If your relationship with your colleagues is safe enough to engage in deep personal and reflective work, you are welcome to join together. Please feel free to check in with us prior to signing up if you have any questions about this.

  • You will need to attend 80% of all sessions to receive a certificate of completion. If you are anticipating missing more than 80%, please reach out to discuss before booking.

    We also acknowledge that life happens. If you are unwell or unable to complete the training, we will support you to join make-up sessions in a later training.

  • Yes, absolutely. Please get it touch directly to discuss - jo@takinggood.care