For clinicians
carrying more
than they can name.
Beyond self-care: burnout, moral injury,
and sustainable practice.
Burnout is not always just exhaustion. Sometimes it is grief. Sometimes it is moral injury. Sometimes it is what happens when caring becomes costly.
Still Cracked Founding Cohort is a reflective clay-based professional development program for clinicians and helping professionals — three immersive workshop days across three months, grounded in occupational health research, nervous system science, and the particular honesty of working with your hands.
Limited to 8 participants. Early bird pricing available for this first public delivery.
When the work follows you home.
You spend your days supporting other people.
Listening.
Holding space.
Solving problems.
Managing crises.
Carrying responsibilities that rarely fit neatly into a position description.
And yet some days you find yourself exhausted, cynical, emotionally numb, or wondering whether the work is slowly costing more than it gives back.
Perhaps you care as much as you ever did, but the systems around you have changed. Perhaps you have become tired of being told the solution is another self-care strategy.
Perhaps what you are carrying has a name: burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, cumulative stress, emotional labour, or simply too many years of absorbing what other people could not.
Still Cracked was created for that reality.
“Burnout is not a resilience problem. It is what happens when the conditions of work exceed the capacity of the person doing it — and the person is told to manage better.”
— Still Cracked, Program Philosophy
A founding cohort for people
who need something more honest.
Three immersive workshop days. Small group. Hand-building only. A Sunshine Coast / Mooloolaba studio where you can make something imperfect and think more clearly about what the work has asked of you.
This is not therapy. It is professional development that takes the whole nervous system seriously.
Self-care is not a bath. It is not a competency. And it is certainly not a substitute for structural change.
Who this is for
Built for people
who give a lot.
If you spend your days holding space for others, navigating systems that weren’t built for humans, or carrying the aftertaste of work long after the workday ends, Still Cracked was designed with you in mind.
This program is for the clinician who knows the theory of self-care but finds the reality of it complicated, exhausting, or vaguely insulting given the actual conditions of the work.
“No assumption that your burnout is a personal failure.”
Still Cracked Program Philosophy
Three immersive workshop days
across three months.
Still Cracked Founding Cohort is limited to 8 participants and delivered in person on the Sunshine Coast / Mooloolaba. The structure is intentionally spacious: enough continuity to deepen the work, enough room between days to notice what follows you back into practice.
- 21 CPD hours total
- Small founding cohort limited to 8 participants
- Clay-based reflective practice with evidence-informed teaching
- Professional development, not psychotherapy or crisis support
Saturday 1 August 2026
Saturday 29 August 2026
Saturday 26 September 2026
Founding Cohort Pricing
Founding rates for the first public delivery.
This founding rate is offered because this is the first public delivery of the program, and participants will be invited to provide feedback to help shape future cohorts.
Limited to 8 places. Payment plan available at checkout. Early bird closes 15 July 2026.
Three workshop days.
One thread running all the way through.
Each workshop day holds two integrated learning modules. The clay work runs through all three days — not as activity, but as the practice itself.
Naming What the Work Has Cost
Includes Wedge & Begin and The Myth & The Research. We begin by naming what is real: burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and the gap between self-care rhetoric and occupational health evidence. We also examine contemporary self-care expectations within helping professions through the lens of burnout research, professional responsibility, and occupational health evidence, with curiosity, evidence, and honesty.
Wedge & Begin
Burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury. What does the evidence actually say, and what becomes visible when we stop pretending the work is cost-free?
The Myth & The Research
Self-care discourse, occupational health research, and the professional obligations that are too often weaponised against exhausted clinicians.
The Nervous System at Work
Includes The Wall and Held. This day focuses on emotional labour, professional permeability, and what it means to regulate in systems that repeatedly ask your body to absorb what the organisation will not.
The Wall
Invisible work, professional boundaries, emotional labour, and the slow cost of being the stable one in unstable systems.
Held
Nervous system regulation, polyvagal theory, embodied regulation, and why your body may be signalling something accurate rather than excessive.
Repair, Values, and Sustainable Practice
Includes Cracks and Fired & Whole. Not a redemption arc, and not a tidy ending. This day works with grief, values, vicarious resilience, moral injury integration, and the architecture required for practice that does not keep consuming the practitioner.
Cracks
Kintsugi, grief, and moral injury integration. Some forms of burnout are not depletion alone; they are the scar tissue left by repeatedly violating your own values to survive the work.
Fired & Whole
Values, vicarious resilience, and sustainable practice architecture. What would it mean to keep practising without disappearing from your own life?
Not another self-care checklist.
Burnout is a system problem
The research is clear: burnout emerges from organisational conditions, not personal weakness. This program keeps distress in structural context without pretending individual choices do not matter at all.
Evidence-informed, not evidence-caged
Built on occupational health research, polyvagal theory, and moral injury literature. Facilitated by a registered psychologist with published burnout research.
Clay as regulation, not therapy
Tactile, bilateral, absorbing, non-verbal. Clay engages the nervous system from the outside in. The clay is not a prop.
Psychologically safe facilitation
Trauma-informed. No compulsory disclosure. You share what you choose. The facilitator is a registered psychologist, meaning both the content and the process are held carefully.
Anti-toxic-positivity
No assumption that your burnout is a personal failure. This is clinician-safe, not wellness-branded.
Made anyway
The ethos underneath everything. You don’t need to arrive resourced, articulate, or composed. You don’t need to be okay. You just need to come.
Why I Created Still Cracked
I spent more than twenty-five years working across mental health, workplace rehabilitation, disability services, EAP, and private practice. And for a long time, I did what most clinicians do: I kept going.
My Masters research examined how people recover from workplace burnout and what helps them sustain wellbeing afterwards. What I found, and what I kept hearing from colleagues, was that the standard advice was not reaching people. Not because they weren’t trying. Because the advice wasn’t honest about what burnout actually is.
I am also a potter. And somewhere in the intersection of clay, research, and twenty-five years of sitting with people in hard places, Still Cracked began to take shape.
This program is what I needed earlier in my career.
Suzanne Robertson
Registered Psychologist · Board-Approved Supervisor · Potter
Suzanne is a registered psychologist, board-approved supervisor, published burnout researcher, and potter with more than 25 years’ experience across private practice, workplace rehabilitation, disability services, EAP, youth work, and mental health settings.
Her Masters-level research into recovery from workplace burnout has been published, and she brings together occupational psychology, nervous-system-informed practice, and ceramics in a way that is both rigorous and genuinely human.
Alongside psychology, Suzanne has developed a dedicated pottery practice. This matters. The clay is not a prop.
Registered Psychologist, AHPRA
Board-Approved Supervisor
Published researcher in burnout recovery
Sunshine Coast / Mooloolaba
Founding Cohort Registration
Reserve your place in the
first public cohort.
Register your interest for Still Cracked Founding Cohort. Limited to 8 participants, with early bird pricing from $395 and standard founding member pricing at $450. 21 CPD hours across 3 workshop days.
Participants in this first public delivery will be invited to offer feedback to help shape future cohorts.
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Still Cracked is a professional development and reflective practice program, not psychotherapy or crisis support. Facilitated by a registered psychologist. If you are in crisis, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or speak with your GP.