Find Your Bearings
Different paths. A meaningful way forward
Your days are full.
There’s little room left for you.
Pause. Orient. Choose one next step.
Live online · 4 weeks · 75 minutes/session · Limited to four participants per circle
Personal Field Guide and reusable program resources included
First-circle introductory rate:
$159 total
Reserve your place with a $49 deposit, applied toward your total.
The remaining $110 is due seven days before our first session.
Finding Your Bearings
A four-week live circle for occupational therapists
Four participants maximum per circle · $159 introductory rate
Making room for you in 2027.
You may already have plenty of knowledge and strategies.
What’s harder to find is time to consider your own needs, understand your circumstances, and explore what could change—with someone alongside you.
Finding Your Bearings offers space to pause, understand what’s shaping your experience, and explore a direction that fits your needs, values, and actual circumstances.
Trying to move forward without clarity of the landscape within and around you can keep you stuck.
Understanding yourself within an ecosystem turns feeling lost into orientation—helping you to identify a direction and a way forward.
You can care about your work and question how you’re living.
Perhaps you still love being an OT, but the demands surrounding the work have become difficult to sustain.
Documentation spills into personal time.
Productivity expectations leave little room for the care you want to provide.
Your own needs keep moving to the bottom of the list.
Or perhaps work is one part of a fuller picture: family responsibilities, changing energy, financial pressures, and a growing sense that the way you’re living needs attention.
You may recognize yourself here:
People Practice Possibilities
You spend your days helping others participate in what matters to them. Yet at the end of the day, there may be little energy left for what matters to you.
You keep adapting, but the expectations keep growing. You can feel that something needs to change. Finding time—and a knowing what your way forward could be—is harder.
You keep looking outside of yourself for answers, hoping something will become clear—yet clarity is elusive, and options seem complicated or even overwhelming.
You have all the tools, taken all the courses and seminars, understand the theories, yet when it comes to taking time for yourself to sort out what YOU need, there is always something that seems more important. and your own needs are difficult to hear.
01 · Understand your current landscape
Clarify what is making daily life difficult to sustain, what is supporting you, and how your needs interact with the conditions around you.
02 · Find a direction that fits
Consider what matters, what needs attention, and which options are realistic given your energy, responsibilities, finances, and support.
03 · Take a meaningful next step
Try a manageable change, learn from what happens, and adjust your direction with new information.
You may discover a need for rest, a conversation, a different routine, additional support, or a larger change. There is room to explore before deciding.
What you’ll leave with
This session will not ask you to make an immediate career decision. It will help you slow down, understand what is shaping your experience, and identify one useful next step.
A clearer view of the landscape
Recognize some of the larger forces affecting rehabilitation work—and why dissatisfaction or uncertainty is not always an individual failure.
A map of what is shaping your experience
Explore how work conditions, capacity, identity, opportunity, and life priorities may be interacting for you right now.
One small experiment—Choose a realistic action that can give you useful information without requiring you to decide your entire future.
What the Wayfinding process in Finding your Bearings
will help you do
Create your own Wayfinding Map
You next step in your journey starts with pausing and orienting yourself within your landscape.
When everything feels tangled, it can help to put the pieces where you can see them.
Throughout the circle, you’ll begin creating a personal Wayfinding Map. Using words, simple sketches, templates from your field guide, or a combination of these, you’ll explore:
What you’re carrying.
What drains and restores your capacity.
What supports, resources and strengths you can draw on
What matters to you.
Which conditions support or constrain you.
What is yours to address, what is shared, and where organizational responsibility belongs.
What directions you might explore.
Your map can change as your understanding grows.
You’ll receive a reusable templates and guidance for creating new maps independently—when another decision arises, your circumstances shift, or you need to find your bearings again.
No artistic experience is needed. Your map only needs to make sense to you.
A process you can return to
The circle uses my emerging Wayfinding Framework, informed by occupational therapy, reflective practice, coaching, and attention to the relationship between people and their environments.
01 PAUSE
Create a little space to notice what is happening before responding to the next demand.
02 ORIENT
Consider your needs, values, capacity, and the landscape around you: relationships, expectations, resources, responsibilities, and possibilities.
03 DISCERN
Weigh what you’re noticing and explore a fitting direction. Optional prompts around meaning, proximity, leverage, and capacity help organize your thinking.
04 PARTICIPATE
Choose a manageable response. That might mean exploring, asking, negotiating, resting, reducing a commitment, seeking support, or beginning something new.
05 REPEAT
Return with what you’ve learned. Notice what has changed and what needs adjusting.
You’ll practice using the loop with a real concern from your own life.
Some possibilities emerge when we think together
A reflection prompt can help you begin. A conversation can take you somewhere you didn’t expect.
Connection and community matter.
In our live virtual sessions, you can discuss a current concern, ask a question as it arises, and receive a response that fits what you’re experiencing.
We can pause when something needs more attention, explore an assumption, consider another perspective, or help put words to something that has been difficult to explain.
Connect with other occupational therapists who are going through similar struggles or challenges.
Discover solutions, pathways, or perspectives you may not have considered on your own.
With a maximum of four participants per circle, there is room to be heard and to learn from one another.
These responsive, shared conversations offer something a prerecorded video cannot: the opportunity to explore what is happening for you, in that moment, with others alongside you.
Resources for the weeks—and seasons—ahead
You won’t need to remember everything from a conversation to use it later.
Your personal Field Guide will include:
Wayfinding Map templates: space to develop your current map and create fresh maps for future situations, with a completed example.
A Wayfinding Loop pocket guide: brief prompts to help you pause, orient, discern, participate, and reassess.
A Capacity and Conditions Check-In: notice energy, demands, recovery, resources, and support.
A Responsibility and Influence worksheet: explore personal, shared, and organizational responsibilities.
Discernment and Small Experiment tools: consider options, choose a step, and learn from what happens.
Weekly session companions: central ideas, reflection prompts, and optional creative invitations to revisit in your own time.
Use a brief check-in during a demanding week or spend more time exploring when you have the space.
Your Field Guide and reusable program resources are included in the $159 price and are yours to keep, revisit, and adapt.
Bring your own journal or paper and writing materials. Any additional creative supplies are provided by you; you’re welcome to use what you already have.
What you’ll have the opportunity to learn.
By the end of Finding Your Bearings, you will have opportunities to:
Clarify what is making your working life difficult to sustain—and recognize what is supporting you.
Separate what you can address personally from conditions that require organizational change, shared action, or additional support.
Clarify what you need from work to support your health, livelihood, and professional values.
Explore realistic next steps, whether that means adjusting your current role, requesting support, exploring another setting, or considering a different direction.
Try one meaningful change and use what you learn to guide your next decision.
Create and revisit your own Wayfinding Map as your needs and circumstances change.
We’ll explore work within the larger context of the life you want to live.
Meet Teresa
I’m Teresa, an occupational therapist with more than 25 years of experience and a life design coach with a focus on creativity.
My professional life has centered on understanding the relationship between people, the activities that matter to them, and the environments that shape their participation.
My own experience of burnout made those questions deeply personal.
Through that experience and conversations with other OTs, I kept returning to a question: How do we make room for our own lives while doing work that asks so much of us?
I created Finding Your Bearings as a place to bring those questions without needing to arrive as the capable professional with the answers.
A place to be heard, consider our circumstances together, and develop practical ways to find direction—even when the whole path isn’t clear.
I bring my OT experience, coaching, reflective practice, and creative exploration into this circle. My role is to help you notice connections, explore possibilities, and develop a process you can use for yourself.
“You spend so much of your life making room for others. I wanted to create a space where there is room for you.”
—Teresa
Finding Your Bearings
Making room for you in 2027
Four weekly, 75-minute live virtual sessions
Maximum four participants per circle
Personal Field Guide and reusable program resources included
First-circle introductory rate:
$159 total
Reserve your place with a $49 deposit, applied toward your total.
The remaining $110 is due seven days before our first session.
Dates are as follows:
Circle Four meeting dates in 2027
Times:
Thursday January 14, 21, 28; February 4 5–6:15 p.m. Pacific
Sunday January 17, 24, 31; February 7 10–11:15 a.m. Pacific
Monday January 11, 18, 25; February 1 9–10:15 a.m. Pacific
Interested, but these dates don’t work? Share your availability for a future circle.
A few things you may be wondering
Do I need to be considering a career change?
No. You might want to make your current situation more sustainable, reconnect with life outside work, or explore a question you haven’t yet put into words. A career decision can belong here, but it isn’t required.
What if I’m already stretched thin?
The circle is designed with limited time and energy in mind. Each week, we’ll make space for reflection and exploration during our 75 minutes together.
Between sessions, you can try a brief check-in, return to a prompt, or notice what happens in an everyday situation. These are optional invitations you can adapt to your capacity.
Your Field Guide will be there when you have more room to explore.
What if some of the problems are systemic?
We’ll make room for that reality. Workload, compensation, resources, management, and professional expectations affect what is possible.
We’ll consider where responsibility belongs, where you have influence, and whether support, shared action, or a change in conditions is needed.
What if I miss a session?
Your weekly session companion will help you explore the central ideas independently and continue developing your map. You’ll receive all program resources.
Please plan to attend as many live sessions as possible. The conversations and relationships are an important part of the circle.
What supplies will I need?
Bring a personal journal or loose paper and something to write or draw with. You’re welcome to use creative supplies you already have.
Your Field Guide, map templates, worksheets, and session companions are included in the price. A personal journal and any additional art supplies are provided by you.
Do I have to share personal information or be creative?
You choose what to share and how to participate. Creative invitations are simple ways to explore an idea; writing, making marks, or reflecting quietly are all welcome.
Is this therapy?
Finding Your Bearings is a reflective coaching and learning experience. It does not provide occupational therapy or mental health treatment.
Is there an ongoing commitment?
No. This is a complete four-week experience. Your $159 payment covers the four sessions and included program resources, with no automatic subscription.
Your needs deserve a place in the picture.
You may not be able to change every demand around you. You can begin to understand what those demands are costing, what supports you, and where change might be possible.
Make room to hear yourself—with others alongside you and tools to help you keep finding your way.
Finding Your Bearings
Making room for you.
Four weekly, 75-minute live sessions
Maximum four participants per circle
Personal Field Guide and reusable program resources included
First-circle introductory rate: $159 total
Planned for early January 2027
Dates and meeting details to be announced
A different way of living and working begins with one small pause at a time.
Your next season doesn't have to feel like this one. Whenever you're ready, I'd love to welcome you.
Share your availability for a future circle.
Enroll now and secure your place in this cohort.