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Workplace CultureStress and burnout prevention workshops for high-pressure teams
Every workplace has pressure. The question is whether your people have the tools to manage it, or whether it quietly builds into exhaustion, mistakes and absence. Stress is not a personal failing; it is a workplace risk that can be reduced with the right skills and support.
Stress & Burnout Prevention Workshops are practical workplace sessions from Holistic Services Group that provide staff with evidence-based techniques to recognise, manage, and reduce stress, build resilience, and prevent burnout. They are delivered onsite across Australia and online nationwide, as a single session, a short Lunch and Learn, or an ongoing series.
These workshops complement, rather than replace, organisational controls for psychosocial hazards. They help employees build practical skills, while employers address factors such as workload, role clarity, job design, consultation and supportive supervision.
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The cost of unmanaged stress and burnout
Workplace stress carries a measurable cost. Safe Work Australia reports that mental health conditions account for 12% of serious workers’ compensation claims in Australia, and the median time lost is 35.7 weeks—almost five times the median across serious claims (Safe Work Australia, Key WHS Statistics Australia). Long before a claim is lodged, sustained pressure can affect focus, energy and participation.
Workshops can build employees’ skills to recognise and respond to stress, while the organisation addresses the job demands and workplace conditions creating the risk.
Who this is for
These workshops are designed for whole teams under sustained pressure, desk-based, high-pressure teams, frontline staff, and teams moving through periods of change or heavy workload. They suit both prevention, building skills before people struggle, and reset, giving a stretched team practical relief and a shared language for managing pressure.
What the workshops involve
Sessions are interactive and practical rather than lectures. Depending on your needs, HSG can deliver focused workshops including:
- Dealing with Stress, Worry and Anxiety
- Coping with Change
- Proven Techniques for Reducing Stress
- Managing Burn-Out: Techniques for Balancing Stress and Success
By the end of the session, participants will be able to recognise their own early stress signals, apply simple techniques to calm the body and refocus, reframe unhelpful thinking, and build personal habits that protect against burnout.
Sessions can be delivered as a single workshop, a short Lunch and Learn, or an ongoing weekly or monthly series, onsite across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra or online nationwide, and content is customised to your workplace and pressures.
Outcomes you can expect
After delivery, HSG can report on attendance, participation and staff feedback, and participants routinely leave with specific tools they can use the same day. Repeat bookings and ongoing series are common as teams build the habit.
Over time, stress and burnout prevention can support presenteeism and absenteeism, engagement, resilience and the management of psychosocial risk.
The investment case is well established: for every dollar invested in effective workplace mental health initiatives, Australian organisations see an average return of $2.30 in reduced absenteeism, presenteeism and compensation claims (PwC, 2014).
What clients say
We loved having Alison at the office and was very inspiring to hear her journey along with all the useful techniques she shared with us to recognize, prevent and deal with Burnout.
Sofia Morales
Edwards Lifesciences
Holistic Services Group facilitated Stress Management and Laughter Therapy workshops. Their strategies helped us minimise our stress levels and make our work more enjoyable. They delivered their services with high standards and integrity.
Dale Smith
Manager – Education, Symantec Corporation
Experience and credentials
HSG has delivered workplace wellbeing since 2003 and is trusted by more than 1,600 organisations, including Telstra, Commonwealth Bank, Australia Post and the Department of Defence. Sessions are led by specialist facilitators who hold credentials in psychology, mental health and wellbeing, with onsite delivery across every Australian capital and virtual delivery nationwide and across the Asia-Pacific.
Related programs
These workshops sit within HSG’s workplace mental health and resilience pillar and pair well with resilience training and growth mindset, the work-life balance program and corporate meditation. For higher-pressure or compliance-driven contexts, see psychosocial risk programs, or get in touch to design the right mix. If you are building an internal case, our summary of Australian workplace stress research sets out the claims data, common causes and regulator guidance behind these workshops.
Frequently asked questions
They suit whole teams under sustained pressure, desk-based and high-pressure roles, frontline staff, and teams moving through change. They work both as prevention, before people are struggling, and as a reset for a team that is already stretched.
An EAP provides valuable individual support when issues surface. These workshops are preventative and team-based, helping employees build shared skills and language before pressure escalates. Neither training nor an EAP replaces the organisation’s responsibility to identify and control psychosocial hazards through appropriate work design, workload management, consultation and supervision.
HSG reports on attendance, participation and feedback, and participants leave with practical tools. Over time, stress prevention can support presenteeism, absenteeism, engagement and resilience. Australian research has found an average return of $2.30 for every dollar invested in workplace mental health (PwC, 2014).
Both. HSG delivers onsite across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and regional areas, and online nationwide and across the Asia-Pacific.
Sessions range from a short Lunch and Learn to a half-day workshop or an ongoing weekly or monthly series, and content is tailored to your workplace, its pressures and the audience.
Start the conversation
More than 1,600 organisations have trusted HSG to deliver practical workplace wellbeing programs across Australia. Tell us what your team needs, and we’ll help you identify the right next step.
We respond to all enquiries within 12 hours.
Trusted by 1,600+ organisations across Australia and Asia-Pacific
Supporting corporate, government, healthcare, education and not-for-profit sectors
HSG has supported more than 1,600 organisations across corporate, government, healthcare, education and not-for-profit sectors, including Microsoft, Telstra, Commonwealth Bank, BHP, the Department of Defence, St Vincent’s, the University of Sydney, Deakin University, The Smith Family and headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation.