Absolutely Cooked: Recovering from Burnout

Event Details

This event is held Online – 2 hours of professional development (category A)

*This event will not be recorded*

Gordon Parker in his research based book called, Burnout: A guide to identifying burnout and pathways to recovery (2021), suggested that Burnout is the body and minds way of stopping ourselves working ourselves to death.

Marcel will help us deepen our understanding of burnout and how it differs from other diagnoses. Through his specialty work in this area, Marcel has seen that burnout is more prevalent than many people realise, though so many people do not access the support they need- burnout needs proper treatment. This session will explore burnout from the perspective of counsellors supporting clients experiencing burnout, as well as recognising and responding to burnout in ourselves as counsellors. Marcel will highlight the connection of boundaries, self-care and burnout and will detail how burnout requires an intentional and planned intervention. Indeed, burnout almost always has causal factors and therefore exploration of what got people there in the first will form part of this presentation.

Learning Outcomes

• Develop a clearer understanding of burnout and the factors that can contribute to it- symptoms and experience

• Diagnosis: What is burnout and what it is not? How it differs from other diagnoses.

• Understanding a continuum of burnout

• Recognise common signs of burnout in clients and in themselves as counselling professionals.

• Understand how intervention with burnout is different and why a planned proposal is essential

• The fundamental importance of boundaries and self-compassion (therefore self-talk also

• Dealing with past drivers and past coping mechanisms- i.e. what is it that contributed to burnout in the first place and what dangers are there going forward. Learnings from the Absolutely Podcast research so far.

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$10 Early Bird Discount finishes on 10 October 2026.

Bookings close 12pm AEDT on 21 October 2026.

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