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Knowledge + Guidance

When a team or group is burning out together

You are a group — a team, a family, a set of people carrying something together — and you are all burning out. Everyone is depleted, running on empty, and it is dragging down the work and the wellbeing of the whole group. You want to face the burnout together and find a way back.

◆ How this problem reads on the two dials
GuidanceKnowledge
More coaching
A little to learn
1:1 with PatanWith others (a Pod)
Some one-to-one
Practise with peers
Inner work of honesty (guidance) with practical diagnosis and recovery (knowledge). A shared effort, mostly with-others.
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What’s really going on

Facing burnout together is far more powerful than each suffering it alone, and three things guide it. First, name the burnout out loud, together — it usually stays unspoken, each person privately assuming they alone are failing, so simply saying we are all running on empty breaks the isolation and the false story of personal weakness. Second, find what is actually driving the depletion — the pace, the unclear demands, the lack of recovery — because a group can diagnose these better and, crucially, has more power to change them together than any one person alone. Third, protect recovery and each other as a shared commitment, guarding rest and watching for the one sliding toward collapse. A group that refills together and looks out for each other outlasts one that burns each member down alone. What's emptying you all?

🔒 What you’ll build togetherUnlock by starting
KnowledgeName the burnout out loud, together
KnowledgeFind what is actually driving the depletion
KnowledgeProtect recovery and each other
A moveName the shared burnout out loud together.
A moveDiagnose the real drivers, and protect recovery and each other.
PractiseThe honest diagnosis · a Pod of 4 · 40 min

What changes unlock by starting

  • You name the shared burnout out loud
  • You break the each-of-us-alone silence
  • You diagnose the real drivers together
  • You protect recovery and each other
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