Trauma-informed Professional Development Retreats for Health Professionals

​Our Retreats: What to Expect

Our professional development retreats are evidence-based courses designed for health professionals to restore balance while strengthening the care you provide for your patients and families. Each experience brings together evidence-based learning, practical skill development, reflective practice and clinical discussion with time to reset and explore within an incredible location—so you return to work grounded, restored, capable, and resourced.

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Educational Courses on Offer:

• Trauma:  Starling Health Collective offers 3 levels of educational courses on Trauma; ensuring that you can move from a trauma-informed practitioner to a skilled clinician who recognises and works with PTSD, Complex Trauma and Somatic conditions.

• Psychological Management of Long-Term Health Conditions

• Resilience in Practice - Self-Care courses for Clinicians.  These educational courses aim to reset the dial on burnout, whilst learning how to prevent vicarious trauma and other common mental health conditions.

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What You Will Learn

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Trauma Training for Health Professionals

• Understanding PTSD and complex trauma

• Trauma-informed care in medical and mental health settings

• Working with dysregulation, avoidance, and dissociation

• Applying evidence-based approaches (e.g. EMDR-informed, ACT-informed) for patient regulation and stabilisation

 

 Self-Care and Burnout Prevention for Clinicians

• Recognising burnout and vicarious trauma

• Sustainable clinical practice models

• Boundaries, emotional load, and system pressures

• Practical regulation strategies for clinicians

• Reflective discussions on how culture, values and belief systems impact clinician sustainability

 

 Psychological Impact of Chronic Illness

• Adjustment to illness and medical trauma

• Working with adherence, grief, identity change

• Supporting patients with long-term conditions

• Integrating mental and physical healthcare

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Supervision and Integration Course

Following the retreat, we also offer a 6-month online Integration and Supervision Group package to consolidate learning and support its integration into clinical practice.  This community of practice will provide accountability, skills consolidation and a forum of like-minded professionals to reduce professional isolation and support your development.

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Across all Starling Health Collective retreats, you can expect:

• Space to breathe:  Workshops run for max 4.5 hours a day to give time to reflect, recalibrate, and focus on your own wellbeing.

• Practical, transferable mental health learning to use in real clinical settings—on the ward, in the clinic, at home.

• Exceptional settings - chosen to combine nature, food, and culture to support genuine restoration.

• Engaging facilitation by Dr Alice Morgan - combining engaging workshop style learning with peer connection and collaboration.

• A whole-experience approach - Learning is integrated with movement, mindfulness, food and wine, and optional wellness activities.

• Exploration of a tourist destination by people who have fallen in love with the area and can't wait to share it with you!

 

Who Are Our Retreats For?

Our retreats are designed for health professionals who want to care well—without burning out.

• Doctors (Physicians, Paediatricians, GPs) & Medical Trainees

• Psychologists, Psychiatrists & Mental Health Clinicians (including Social Workers, Speech and Language and Occupational Therapists)

• Nurses & Allied Health Professionals

• Dentists who want to reduce medical trauma in their practice

• Emergency Department staff who encounter trauma daily

• Rural Doctors

• Health Leaders & Educators

• Clinicians who want quality evidence-based training - without the cognitive overload!​

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Our first two retreats in November 2026 are open now!  Jump straight to the booking page here. 

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Our other retreats will be open for booking soon - register your interest here now so that you don't miss out on a spot!