Burnout Prevention & Recovery
Training Retreat
APS-Approved · 25 CPD Points · Palawan, Philippines
July 6–12, 2026 · Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa, Palawan, Philippines
Holistic Recharge
A week-long training retreat for clinicians who are ready to examine burnout with clinical rigour and experience genuine restoration in one of the world’s most extraordinary environments
Who it’s for
Built for the ones who give everything.
A training retreat for psychologists, counsellors, social workers, coaches, nurses, occupational therapists, somatic therapists, wellbeing practitioners, support workers, and anyone in a helping role.
For professionals who know the burnout literature and are living some version of it anyway.
If the emotional weight of your work has quietly accumulated, this week was designed with you in mind.
What you'll leave with
This is not simply a week away. It is a carefully structured experience designed to help you understand burnout more deeply, recover more intentionally, and return to your work with greater clarity, sustainability, and connection.
01. A Neurobiologically Grounded Understanding of What Burnout Is Actually Doing
Move beyond the general language of exhaustion into a clinical model of burnout — including the Conservation of Resources and Job Demands-Resources frameworks, the role of the Maslach Burnout Inventory as a reflective tool, and the neurobiological mechanisms that make professional depletion so difficult to self-diagnose.
You will understand not just what burnout is, but how it operates — and why intellectual knowledge of it offers no protection against it.
02. A Structured, Individualised Recovery Plan You Can Actually Use
The programme is built toward a concrete outcome: a personalised burnout recovery architecture that fits the reality of clinical practice. Not a list of strategies — a plan, mapped to your specific depletion patterns, your professional context, and your capacity for sustained change.
03. Holistic Management Strategies Across the Full Picture
Burnout is not resolved by rest alone. You will work through evidence-informed approaches that address the cognitive, physiological, relational, and professional dimensions of depletion — giving you a repertoire that holds across the complexity of your actual life.
04. A Cohort of Peers Who Understand Your World Without Explanation
The group is deliberately small. You will spend a week alongside helping professionals navigating the same tensions — with enough time between sessions for real conversation, reflection, and the kind of collegial connection that rarely happens inside a conference room.
The Experience
A week in Palawan
Palawan is consistently ranked among the world’s most beautiful islands. The setting is not incidental — it is chosen to give you the conditions to think clearly, breathe fully, and receive the kind of restoration that a long weekend cannot provide.
Each day follows a deliberate rhythm: structured training sessions in the morning and early afternoon, with time in the late afternoon to rest, walk the beach, or simply be still. Evenings are unscheduled. There is no pressure to be on.
To support your arrival and transition into the retreat environment, a complimentary massage is included as part of your welcome experience on day one.
Your partner is welcome to join you for the week at no additional accommodation cost — they will have full access to the resort and all its surrounds while you are in sessions.
Everything is taken care of
Your registration covers six nights’ accommodation and all meals at Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa — a quiet, beachfront property chosen for its calm and its proximity to Palawan’s natural environment. You arrive, you focus, everything else is handled.
Your facilitator.
Dr. Yuliya Richard, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist · Founder, Eudora · Founder, Blue Horizon Counselling & Mediation · APS Associate Member
Dr. Richard has spent over fifteen years working at the intersection of burnout, chronic stress, and professional sustainability. She has developed clinical programmes targeting burnout recovery across the helping professions, and brings to this training retreat both the rigour of a practitioner-researcher and the understanding of someone who has spent fifteen years sitting with the people this work costs the most.
15+ Years Experience
Working across burnout, impulsivity, trauma, and professional sustainability.
International Perspective
Integrating clinical insight shaped across Ukraine, Germany, and Australia.
Programme
Six days of content. One coherent framework
Each day builds on the last. By the end of the week, you’ll have a unified, neurobiologically grounded model of impulsivity that holds together across the presentations you encounter in practice.
ARRIVAL & CHECK-IN
Participant arrival, registration, and welcome at Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa. Your complimentary arrival massage is available from check-in.
Day 1
Understanding Burnout
The conceptual and neurobiological foundations of the retreat. You will work through the COR and JDR models, the Maslach Burnout Inventory as a reflective tool, and the physiological and psychological mechanisms that make burnout both invisible and self-perpetuating. What depletion actually looks like in the nervous system — and why knowing this matters.
Day 2
The Professional Self Under Pressure
Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and the specific costs of emotional labour in clinical work. How identity, professional standards, and people-pleasing interact with burnout risk. Developing a clear picture of your own depletion patterns.
Day 3
Restoration That Actually Holds
The conceptual and neurobiological foundations of the retreat. You will work through the COR and JDR models, the Maslach Burnout Inventory as a reflective tool, and the physiological and psychological mechanisms that make burnout both invisible and self-perpetuating. What depletion actually looks like in the nervous system — and why knowing this matters.
Day 4
Boundaries, Caseloads, and Sustainable Practice
The structural and relational dimensions of burnout in clinical work. Examining workload, client boundaries, supervision, and the professional decisions that compound or protect against depletion over time.
Day 5
Your Recovery Architecture
Integration across the week. Participants build a structured, individualised burnout recovery plan: mapped to their specific context, their depletion patterns, and their capacity for sustained change. Applied exercises and peer reflection.
Accreditation
Formally recognised professional development
This programme is APS-approved and structured to meet Continuing Professional Development requirements. You will receive formal documentation of 20 CPD hours on completion.
The programme integrates evidence-informed theory, applied clinical content, and structured reflection — meeting the criteria for substantive professional development, not just attendance hours.
Supported by the Australian Psychological Society, the Impulsivity Research Institute, and Blue Horizon Counselling & Mediation.
Pricing & Registration
Reserve your place
Places are limited to maintain the cohort size that makes this format work. If you are considering attending, registering early is recommended — both to secure your spot and to access the early-bird rate.
All rates are per person in AUD and cover the full programme: 25 hours of APS-approved professional development, six nights’ accommodation, and all meals. Your partner may share accommodation at no additional cost (meals and incidentals for partners are not included).
Places are limited to maintain the cohort size that makes this format work. If you are considering attending, registering early is recommended — both to secure your spot and to access the early-bird rate.
All rates are per person in AUD and cover the full programme: 25 hours of APS-approved professional development, six nights’ accommodation, and all meals. Your partner may share accommodation at no additional cost (meals and incidentals for partners are not included).
APS Member Early Bird
APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
APS-Approved CPD Points
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
APS Member Regular
APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
APS-Approved CPD Points
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Non-APS Member Early Bird
Non-APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
Certificate of Completion
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Non-APS Member Regular
Non - APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
Certificate of Completion
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Location
Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa
Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
Palawan has been named the world’s best island multiple times. Puerto Princesa is a short direct flight from Manila, with connections available from major Australian cities. The resort sits on a quiet stretch of beachfront, away from the busier tourist areas — chosen deliberately for the atmosphere it creates.
Questions before you register?
If you would like to talk through whether this training retreat is right for you, or have questions about travel, accommodation, or the programme, Dr. Richard is happy to hear from you directly.
APS-Approved · 25 CPD Points · Palawan, Philippines
July 6–12, 2026 · Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa, Palawan, Philippines
Holistic Recharge
A week-long training retreat for clinicians who are ready to examine burnout with clinical rigour and experience genuine restoration in one of the world’s most extraordinary environments
Who it’s for
Built for the ones who give everything.
A training retreat for psychologists, counsellors, social workers, coaches, nurses, occupational therapists, somatic therapists, wellbeing practitioners, support workers, and anyone in a helping role.
For professionals who know the burnout literature and are living some version of it anyway.
If the emotional weight of your work has quietly accumulated, this week was designed with you in mind.
What you'll leave with
This is not simply a week away. It is a carefully structured experience designed to help you understand burnout more deeply, recover more intentionally, and return to your work with greater clarity, sustainability, and connection.
01. A Neurobiologically Grounded Understanding of What Burnout Is Actually Doing
Move beyond the general language of exhaustion into a clinical model of burnout — including the Conservation of Resources and Job Demands-Resources frameworks, the role of the Maslach Burnout Inventory as a reflective tool, and the neurobiological mechanisms that make professional depletion so difficult to self-diagnose.
You will understand not just what burnout is, but how it operates — and why intellectual knowledge of it offers no protection against it.
02. A Structured, Individualised Recovery Plan You Can Actually Use
The programme is built toward a concrete outcome: a personalised burnout recovery architecture that fits the reality of clinical practice. Not a list of strategies — a plan, mapped to your specific depletion patterns, your professional context, and your capacity for sustained change.
03. Holistic Management Strategies Across the Full Picture
Burnout is not resolved by rest alone. You will work through evidence-informed approaches that address the cognitive, physiological, relational, and professional dimensions of depletion — giving you a repertoire that holds across the complexity of your actual life.
04. AA Cohort of Peers Who Understand Your World Without Explanation
The group is deliberately small. You will spend a week alongside helping professionals navigating the same tensions — with enough time between sessions for real conversation, reflection, and the kind of collegial connection that rarely happens inside a conference room.
The Experience
A week in Palawan
Palawan is consistently ranked among the world’s most beautiful islands. The setting is not incidental — it is chosen to give you the conditions to think clearly, breathe fully, and receive the kind of restoration that a long weekend cannot provide.
Each day follows a deliberate rhythm: structured training sessions in the morning and early afternoon, with time in the late afternoon to rest, walk the beach, or simply be still. Evenings are unscheduled. There is no pressure to be on.
To support your arrival and transition into the retreat environment, a complimentary massage is included as part of your welcome experience on day one.
Your partner is welcome to join you for the week at no additional accommodation cost — they will have full access to the resort and all its surrounds while you are in sessions.
Everything is taken care of
Your registration covers six nights’ accommodation and all meals at Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa — a quiet, beachfront property chosen for its calm and its proximity to Palawan’s natural environment. You arrive, you focus, everything else is handled.
Your facilitator.
Dr. Yuliya Richard, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist · Founder, Eudora · Founder, Blue Horizon Counselling & Mediation · APS Associate Member
Dr. Richard has spent over fifteen years working at the intersection of burnout, chronic stress, and professional sustainability. She has developed clinical programmes targeting burnout recovery across the helping professions, and brings to this training retreat both the rigour of a practitioner-researcher and the understanding of someone who has spent fifteen years sitting with the people this work costs the most.
15+ Years Experience
Working across burnout, impulsivity, trauma, and professional sustainability.
International Perspective
Integrating clinical insight shaped across Ukraine, Germany, and Australia.
Programme
Six days of content. One coherent framework
Each day builds on the last. By the end of the week, you’ll have a unified, neurobiologically grounded model of impulsivity that holds together across the presentations you encounter in practice.
ARRIVAL & CHECK-IN
Participant arrival, registration, and welcome at Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa. Your complimentary arrival massage is available from check-in.
Day 1
Understanding Burnout
The conceptual and neurobiological foundations of the retreat. You will work through the COR and JDR models, the Maslach Burnout Inventory as a reflective tool, and the physiological and psychological mechanisms that make burnout both invisible and self-perpetuating. What depletion actually looks like in the nervous system — and why knowing this matters.
Day 2
The Professional Self Under Pressure
Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and the specific costs of emotional labour in clinical work. How identity, professional standards, and people-pleasing interact with burnout risk. Developing a clear picture of your own depletion patterns.
Day 3
Restoration That Actually Holds
The conceptual and neurobiological foundations of the retreat. You will work through the COR and JDR models, the Maslach Burnout Inventory as a reflective tool, and the physiological and psychological mechanisms that make burnout both invisible and self-perpetuating. What depletion actually looks like in the nervous system — and why knowing this matters.
Day 4
Boundaries, Caseloads, and Sustainable Practice
The structural and relational dimensions of burnout in clinical work. Examining workload, client boundaries, supervision, and the professional decisions that compound or protect against depletion over time.
Day 5
Your Recovery Architecture
Integration across the week. Participants build a structured, individualised burnout recovery plan: mapped to their specific context, their depletion patterns, and their capacity for sustained change. Applied exercises and peer reflection.
Accreditation
Formally recognised professional development
This programme is APS-approved and structured to meet Continuing Professional Development requirements. You will receive formal documentation of 20 CPD hours on completion.
The programme integrates evidence-informed theory, applied clinical content, and structured reflection — meeting the criteria for substantive professional development, not just attendance hours.
Supported by the Australian Psychological Society, the Impulsivity Research Institute, and Blue Horizon Counselling & Mediation.
Reserve your place
Places are limited to maintain the cohort size that makes this format work. If you are considering attending, registering early is recommended — both to secure your spot and to access the early-bird rate.
All rates are per person in AUD and cover the full programme: 25 hours of APS-approved professional development, six nights’ accommodation, and all meals. Your partner may share accommodation at no additional cost (meals and incidentals for partners are not included).
Places are limited to maintain the cohort size that makes this format work. If you are considering attending, registering early is recommended — both to secure your spot and to access the early-bird rate.
All rates are per person in AUD and cover the full programme: 25 hours of APS-approved professional development, six nights’ accommodation, and all meals. Your partner may share accommodation at no additional cost (meals and incidentals for partners are not included).
APS Member Early Bird
APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
APS-Approved CPD Points
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
APS Member Regular
APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
APS-Approved CPD Points
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Non-APS Member Early Bird
Non-APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
Certificate of Completion
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Non-APS Member Regular
Non - APS Member-
5-Day Clinical Training Program
-
Certificate of Completion
-
Accommodation & Daily Breakfast
Location
Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa
Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
Palawan has been named the world’s best island multiple times. Puerto Princesa is a short direct flight from Manila, with connections available from major Australian cities. The resort sits on a quiet stretch of beachfront, away from the busier tourist areas — chosen deliberately for the atmosphere it creates.
Questions before you register?
If you would like to talk through whether this training retreat is right for you, or have questions about travel, accommodation, or the programme, Dr. Richard is happy to hear from you directly.