PROACTIVE CARE
Build cultures that take burnout seriously.
Organizational Sustainability Workshop
Is your team struggling to manage in the face of never-ending need?
Are you worried your staff or volunteers are burning themselves out?
This workshop explores what sustainability in the nonprofit world looks like.
FOR TEAMS THAT CARRY A LOT
When people care for others, the cost of sustained pressure can be easily overlooked.
Burnout can strike anywhere, but those who care for others are particularly vulnerable. It is shaped by workload, expectations, support, culture, loss, and the availability of spaces to process. Our trainings explore how our organizational capacity can be managed effectively, staff and resources can be stewarded well,
FOR LEADERS
Cultivate a culture that fosters and stewards sustainability. Learn to recognize early warning signs, and respond proactively.
FOR TEAMS
Create shared language for stress, capacity, support, and resilient ways of working. Develop shared language for considering one another’s needs and asking for help.
FOR PEOPLE-FOCUSED ORGANISATIONS
Learn about the impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress, Caregiver Fatigue, and Disenfranchised Grief, and what to do about them.
TRAINING THEMES
An adaptable curriculum- meeting your team’s needs
Each workshop will be tailored in conversation with you. The following themes offer a starting point—not a fixed menu.
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Understanding Burnout
What burnout is, how it develops, and why it is more than an individual capacity issue.
Stress, Trauma, and the Nervous System
Accessible, professionally informed insight into how sustained strain affects people and teams.
Loss & Grief and How They are Navigated
Learn about Disenfranchised grief, Grief born of Injustice, & Chronic Sorrow, and how they add weight
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Exploring Organizational Capacity
Capacity is more than Finances. What are the ways your team can manage their overall capacity better, and prevent unnecessary loss.
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Sustainable Next Steps
Translate insight into a realistic plan for rhythms, boundaries, policies, and ongoing care.
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Responding to Specific Needs
Leadership Consultation & Team Coaching
Are you hoping to unlock your team’s fullest potential?
Are there regular dynamics and stumbling blocks that limit and disrupt regular work?
Are there cross-cultural dynamics at play you are unsure how to navigate?
We can work alongside your team to help provide common language, and equip your team with tools to turn these challenges into areas of strength.
Customizable Team Debriefing or Processing
Has your team gone through a particularly painful transition or season of disruption?
Do you feel healing and restoration of broken relationships is necessary in order to move forward?
We may be able to help facilitate some times of intentional restoration and reconciliation. (This service is offered specifically through a Christian lens)
Fathers & Sons Retreats
Do you desire for an opportunity to get away with your son, make meaningful memories, and deepen your relationship?
We would be happy to explore the potential for a camping or boma trip to the Karoo could look like.
Meet the Facilitators
Oasis trainings are facilitated by leaders who understand both the personal and organisational realities of prolonged stress, trauma, and burnout.
Ben Aijian
Co-Founder & Executive Director · Trauma-Informed Care Practitioner · Restorative Intensive Specialist
Ben leads Oasis Sanctuaries and helps shape its trauma-informed approach to restorative care. He holds an MA in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary and brings experience in organisational strategy, team development, coaching, and cross-cultural leadership.
His facilitation helps organisations move from broad concern about burnout to clear, compassionate, practical next steps.
Alexa Russell Matthews
Director of Care : Trauma, Resilience & Wellbeing · Social Worker · Play Therapist
Alexa is a social worker in private practice with extensive experience supporting children, adolescents, families, and people navigating complex stress and change. She holds a BSoSc in Social Work from the University of Cape Town and a Master’s degree in Social Work (Play Therapy) from the University of Pretoria.
Her approach brings clinical insight, warmth, and a deep understanding of relational wellbeing to conversations about resilience, care, and sustainable support.
Together, Ben and Alexa combine organisational perspective with professionally informed care—helping teams create responses that are both human and actionable.
WHEN TRAINING IS NOT ENOUGH
Sometimes people need more than a workshop.
Training can help a team understand and respond to burnout. But it is not therapy or a replacement for individual support. When someone needs deeper care, Oasis can support leaders in facilitating that care through our individual Restorative Intensives.*
*We welcome, and even encourage organizations and leaders to send their teams and staff to us as guests, and even pay for their care. However we must explicitly state that the guests themselves are always our clients- never the sending organization. We will not provide any form of performance review or report to a sponsoring organization without the guest’s explicit consent, and adhere to the highest standards of confidentiality, so that we may create a safe environment for healing to occur.
START A CONVERSATION
Tell us what your team is carrying.
Share your context, hopes, and timing, and we will be in touch about what may be possible.
A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT
Questions Organisations Often Ask
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Our Facilitators are avaliable depending on scheduling constraints, scope of request. All depends on our initial conversation, so lets chat !
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The Workshop is best conducted in person. We are presently in the process of developing a training specifically focused on burnout that will evventually be available online.
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No. Our workshops are educational, and introductory in nature. If you feel you or your team might need additional support, please explore the Restorative Intensive.