The Year You Thrive – A Burnout Prevention Blueprint for OTs
This session will provide occupational therapists with practical strategies to prevent burnout, manage stress, and sustain wellbeing in their high-demand, complex roles. Participants will create a personalised Burnout Action Plan to support them to reconnect with professional purpose, build resilience, and thrive in their careers.
Program Overview
Across Australia, occupational therapists are navigating unprecedented pressure—rising service demand, workforce shortages, administrative complexity and moral distress are reshaping the realities of practice. The Year You Thrive; A Burnout Prevention Blueprint for OTs is a dedicated space for OTs to pause, recalibrate and build a personalised, sustainable plan to protect wellbeing and take care of themselves as the pressures of work mount.
What You Will Learn:
In this interactive and evidence-informed session, you will:
- Build your personalised Burnout Action Plan, including what sustains you as an OT, the factors placing you at risk, and a tailored prevention and recovery roadmap.
- Understand how current workforce pressures—including chronic shortages, recruitment and retention challenges, and rising service demand—impact wellbeing and how to buffer against them.
- Explore frameworks and protective structures to keep your professional identity despite often restrictive policy environments.
- Learn strategies to strengthen your resilience and energy management and reduce overwhelm
By attending this session you will:
- Gain practical tools and strategies to prevent burnout and manage stress in a high-demand profession.
- Develop a personalised Burnout Action Plan tailored to your career stage, practice setting, and values.
- Leave with a clear, actionable roadmap to thrive professionally and personally in the evolving OT workforce
Registering for this event will also give you access to a 45 minute complimentary recording on Understanding burnout, compassion fatigue and moral injury which we recommend you view prior to attending this session.
This session is suitable for:
Suitable for OTs at any career stage.
We highly recommend any OTs who are feeling stretched, fatigued or at risk of burnout register for this session
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
DATE:
Wednesday 18th February 2026
TIME:
Presentation Commences:
12 noon – 2:00pm | VIC, NSW, ACT, TAS |
11:30am – 1:30pm | SA |
11:00am – 1:00pm | QLD |
10:30am – 12:30pm | NT |
9:00am – 11:00am | WA |
The session will run for approximately 2 hours
Please login 10 minutes before the scheduled presentation time
VENUE
This is a 100% virtual event. You will receive an email with details to access the event one day ahead of the scheduled event date.
CPD HOURS:
Total CPD claimable workshop hours: 2 hours
Please allow 48 hours for your CPD Certificate to be loaded in your CPD Tracker after course completion.
ACCESS:
This session will be recorded. A link to the recording will be provided following the event completion. Attendance at the live event is encouraged to optimise learning.
Participants will be able to access the course materials online in their OTA account for the event and for a further 12 weeks after the event
REGISTRATION FEES
EARLYBIRD – Book on or before 27 January 2026
OTA Member: $72
OTA Student/New Graduate Member: $65
Non-member: $95
STANDARD – Book on or after 28 January 2026
OTA Member: $80
OTA Student/New Graduate Member: $72
Non-Member: $105
(All pricing is inclusive of GST)
RSVPS close 11:55pm AEDT on 16 February 2026
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DISCLAIMER
All information is correct at the time of publication. OTA reserves the right to alter or delete items from the CPD calendar as required, and takes no responsibility for any errors, omissions, and changes.
All resources including copies of the presentation, along with all supporting documents and links are not for distribution and are the property of the presenter.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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CONTACT US
Please email info@otaus.com.au or phone 1300 682 878
Presented By
Toni Knight
Toni is a psychotherapist, author and presenter who specialises in anxiety, burnout, compassion fatigue and trauma. She has a degree in psychology, a lively private practice in Newcastle, NSW and 20 years of experience helping people to live values-centred lives. She regularly consults with private practices of professional caregivers and regularly collaborates with Occupational Therapy Australia. Toni believes that professional caregiving is of utmost importance to our community and our nation. She feels that it is therefore imperative that we value the health and wellbeing of the people that perform this vital work.