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Help your team protect their wellbeing without losing their edge.
The line between work and life has never been blurrier. Always-on email, hybrid schedules and heavy workloads make it easy for staff to run flat out until something gives. Realistic workloads, clear role expectations and healthy team norms are an organisational responsibility too, and a work-life balance program gives your people practical, complementary strategies to manage their energy and protect their wellbeing, so they can perform without burning out. A work-life balance program is a facilitated workshop that helps employees manage workload, energy and boundaries to sustain both wellbeing and performance. Holistic Services Group has delivered work-life balance and wellbeing workshops across Australia since 2003, onsite and online, led by specialist facilitators.
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Why work-life balance is worth addressing
Sustained work pressure carries a real cost for both people and organisations.
- Work pressure drives claims: work pressure accounts for 24.2% of work-related mental stress claims in Australia, according to Safe Work Australia’s Key Work Health and Safety Statistics 2025.
- Claims take far longer to resolve: the median mental health claim involves 35.7 weeks off work, compared with a median of 7.4 weeks across all serious claims, per the same report.
Since April 2023, Australian employers have been required to proactively identify, assess and control psychosocial hazards, using the same hierarchy of controls applied to physical hazards, per Safe Work Australia’s guidance on psychosocial hazards. A work-life balance workshop can build practical skills and support healthier team norms. It does not replace an employer’s responsibility under applicable WHS laws to identify and control psychosocial hazards such as excessive job demands, low job control or inadequate support.
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Who this is for
Work-life balance workshops suit whole teams, employees in high-pressure or always-on roles, hybrid and remote staff managing blurred boundaries, and teams coming through a sustained busy period. Sessions work for both staff and managers, who set the tone for healthy team norms.
What the program involves
A specialist facilitator runs an interactive, practical session, onsite or online, typically 60 to 90 minutes, covering realistic strategies for managing energy, workload, priorities and boundaries. Sessions are discussion-led and tailored to your team’s context, and can be delivered as a one-off workshop, a short series, or part of a broader wellbeing program.
What the program helps staff practise
Energy management
Recognise when pressure is becoming depletion
Workload boundaries
Set clearer limits around availability and response expectations
Prioritisation
Focus on what matters most during busy periods
Recovery habits
Build small routines that help people switch off and reset
Team norms
Support healthier expectations around workload and communication
Outcomes you can expect
HSG can report on attendance, participant feedback, perceived usefulness and intended actions. The workshop is designed to help participants identify practical strategies for managing energy, priorities, communication and boundaries.
When supported by realistic workloads and healthy organisational practices, these skills can contribute to more sustainable ways of working. The workshop does not guarantee changes in retention, absenteeism, productivity, presenteeism or burnout rates and is not a clinical treatment.
What clients say
HSG recently conducted two online workshops around stress management and work-life balance during our month of employee wellness activities in October. The staff loved the sessions, they were interactive, engaging and everyone was able to get something out of the sessions.
Kristina Kostovski
Real Therapy Solutions
Our most recent session was all about trying to navigate a way through the busy work schedule, while negotiating the competing priorities of “Life”. Dana delivered an outstanding session that prompted an excellent level of engagement and transparency from our team.
Cameron Ritchie
Dja Dja Wurrung
Experience and credentials
HSG has delivered workplace wellbeing since 2003 and is trusted by more than 1,600 organisations, including Commonwealth Bank, KPMG, Telstra and Australia Post. Workshops are delivered by specialist facilitators with discipline-relevant expertise, onsite across every Australian capital and regional centres, and online nationwide.
Related services
The work-life balance program sits within HSG’s workplace mental health and resilience pillar. It complements resilience training and growth mindset and stress and burnout prevention workshops. To plan a session for your team, get in touch.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. HSG delivers onsite across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and regional centres, and online nationwide. Contact us to confirm availability.
Yes. Sessions are tailored to your team’s context and pressures, and can run as a one-off workshop, a short series, or part of a broader wellbeing program.
HSG can report on attendance, feedback, and perceived usefulness, and participants can apply practical strategies for managing energy, workload and boundaries. Over time, work-life balance support can contribute to engagement, morale and retention, and can help reduce the risk of presenteeism linked to sustained overload. It builds practical skills; it is not a clinical treatment.
Yes. HSG delivers work-life balance workshops onsite at your workplace and online for remote or distributed teams, with the same interactive, discussion-led approach.
Work pressure is among the leading causes of work-related mental stress claims in Australia (Safe Work Australia, 2025), and those claims are rising and slow to resolve. A focused, practical session helps staff manage workload and respond earlier to signs of sustained overload, complementing other wellbeing and EAP support.
It suits whole teams and any staff in high-pressure or always-on roles, including hybrid and remote workers managing blurred boundaries. Sessions can be pitched for general staff or managers, who shape healthy team norms, and content is tailored to your team.
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.