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Self-Care
Sustainable practice — rhythms, recovery and boundaries that hold.
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Start the courseThe real engine, real lessons · no signupA structured course on sustainable practice — workload rhythms, recovery, boundaries and the professional self-care evidence base. Built on the Mindspan course engine: staged syllabus, consolidation after every lesson, progress that follows you.
The course, in the order you work it
Each stage builds on the one before. Progress saves as you go, so you can stop and come back.
32lessons in 3 stages
Orientation
How the course works and what is coming.
- Orientation
- 4 lessons
Load, boundaries and recovery
Read the load pattern, write a boundary that holds, and build a seven-day recovery plan.
- Load Scan
- Map the load
- The Recoverable Week
- Boundary Script
- Boundaries & scripts
- Recovery Plan
- 23 lessons
Maintenance and early response
Catch a drift early, run an If-Then plan, and know when professional or emergency support is needed.
- Maintenance & early response
- 5 lessons
Announced outline
- Why clinicians burn out — the evidence map
- Workload rhythms and energy budgeting
- Recovery practices that actually restore
- Boundaries — saying no without rupture
- A personal sustainability plan
- Consolidation and applied practice
Why this, and why now
A structured course on sustainable practice, for the people who look after everyone else.
Workload rhythms, recovery, boundaries and the evidence behind professional self-care. Free; pay what you think if it helped.
Who it is for
- Clinicians and helping professionals
- Students heading into placement for the first time
What it takes off your plate
- Self-care advice that ignores real caseloads
- Recovery time that keeps getting given away
The journey inside
- Take stock
Where your time and energy actually go.
- Rhythms and boundaries
Practical structures for workload and recovery.
- Your plan
A plan you keep and revisit.
- 8 modules · 32 lessons
- 7 graded checkpoints
Honest answers to the usual doubts
I will start later.
Start whenever suits you. Lessons are short, progress saves, and it is free.
I do not have time.
That is usually the reason to start. Lessons are short, progress saves, and one lesson a week still moves you forward.
Is it really free?
Yes. Pay what you think if it helped.
Will it count toward my CPD?
That depends on your own CPD plan and the Board’s CPD requirements. The course keeps a record of what you worked through if you want to reflect on it.
General education for professionals. Not supervision, therapy or individual advice.
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- Modules
- 8
- Lessons
- 32
- Checkpoints
- 7
- Time to complete
- about 3 hours
Your progress path
Modules unlock in order, each lesson ends with a short consolidation, and your progress saves as you go — the dashboard shows where you are and resumes where you stopped.
- Module 1: Orientation
- Module 2: Load Scan
- Module 3: Map the load
- Module 4: The Recoverable Week
- Module 5: Boundary Script
- Module 6: Boundaries & scripts
- Module 7: Recovery Plan
- Module 8: Maintenance & early response
What’s inside
- Orientation4 lessons
- Load Scan2 lessons
- Map the load6 lessons
- The Recoverable Week6 lessons
- Boundary Script1 lesson
- Boundaries & scripts6 lessons
- Recovery Plan2 lessons
- Maintenance & early response5 lessons
What you will practise
- Rate energy, distance/cynicism, effectiveness, recovery debt, and error risk before reaching for a model
- Read the Load Battery across five gauges — workload, recovery debt, distance/cynicism, effectiveness, and error/safety risk
- Name the five recoverable-week domains and what each one protects
- Build a respectful limit from four parts: audience, limit, reason-tied-to-quality, and next action
- Separate a genuinely urgent request from one that only feels urgent
- Name the decisive recovery-debt cue — withdrawal from supervision and peers, not a sleep number alone
Start with a lesson
How Self-Care works · 4 min — the whole course is open, no card needed.
Common questions
What does it cost?
Free · pay what you think · access-code entry open.
How long does it take?
about 3 hours across 32 lessons, at your own pace. Progress saves as you go, so you can stop and come back.