Retain your people. Support your leaders. Fix what's actually broken
The Shapes Toolkit Training
The anti-burnout system for healthcare: designed by doctors, for doctors, healthcare professionals, leaders and their teams who need more than another one-off wellbeing session.
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Training with Real Impact
4.78
Average feedback score out of 5
95%
Would recommend to a colleague
7500+
Healthcare professionals trained in the past 12 months
Most Wellbeing and Resilience Training Doesn't Work
Wellbeing isn't a skill you teach, it's what happens when people have time and headspace. Most wellbeing training gives people a helpful session, then sends them back into the same workload, pressure and culture.
The Shapes Toolkit is DifferentÂ
It's a flexible, practical system of resilience, productivity and self-development tools that addresses the underlying causes of burnout and dysfunction in healthcare teams: impossible workloads, the guilt that stops people from saying no, and leadership cultures where the most conscientious people end up carrying the most.
It gives individuals and leaders practical tools they can use straight away, and gives teams a shared language for workload, boundaries, conflict, pressure and sustainable working.
The result is a workforce that manages pressure more effectively, leads more sustainably, and stays.
Real change powered by our unique Shapes Toolkit⢠system
Think of it like an Advanced Life Support course - but for the difficult, emotional, stressful situations you face every day at work. A clear, memorable framework you can follow even on your worst day.
There are seven simple shapes, covering topics such as productivity, stress reduction, conflict and difficult conversations, wellbeing, control, coaching and boundary setting. Each shape is designed for a specific challenge - managing your workload, protecting your energy, having the conversations you've been avoiding, and supporting your team without rescuing them.
Each shape comes with tools you can use straight away, in your own one-to-one conversations and team meetings. So you're not just developing yourself - you're changing how your whole team works.
Thousands of clinicians and leaders across the NHS use the Shapes Toolkit every week to set boundaries that hold, lead with more confidence, and go home feeling like they've done a good job.
Stop taking the weight of an overstretched system home with you every shift, using the Zone of Power Framework.
Spot the stress that's helping you and stop the stress that's destroying you, using the Stressors Hexagon Framework.
Break the cycle of saying yes before you've even thought about it, using the In the Corner Framework.
Escape the urgency trap and protect the work that actually matters, using the Prioritisation Grid Framework.
Protect your energy and set your non-negotiables, using the Vortex of Busyness Framework.
Turn your most difficult conversations into your most productive ones, using the Conversation Pentagon Framework.
Get out of the rescuer role and lead more compassionately, using The Drama Triangle Framework.Â
How it works
Three steps to getting the training your teams need...
Because overwhelm shows up in patient care too, and burned out teams don't just leave, they struggle to deliver the change your organisation is depending on.
1. Get in touch.Â
Tell us what's going on for your team, in a quick call or through our enquiry form. Not ready to talk yet? Download the brochure first
2. We build your programme
We match the format, content and focus (workload, boundaries, conflict, leadership under pressure) to what your teams are actually dealing with, not a generic package.
3. Your team gets trained, and you get the evidence.Â
Live delivery, face to face or online, plus the outcomes data you need to show it worked.
LEVEL OF AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT WAS BEYOND ANYTHING I'VE WITNESSED...
"The feedback so far has been stratospheric, and I have to say that witnessing your ability to engage the audience so effortlessly and generate such a positive atmosphere in the room was a joy to see. The level of audience engagement was beyond anything I've witnessed at previous events."
Dr Philip Green
Clinical Lead, GP Fellowship Programme, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Training Hub
ENGAGING, RELEVANT AND REALISTIC...
"In Primary care, we are faced with unprecedented demand for care and fewer resources to meet the demands. At the same time, post-pandemic, the people we serve are often struggling with complex needs, and often unrealistic expectations.
We used the resources of the Shapes Toolkit to support our teams with this. The training was engaging, relevant and realistic. Iâd recommend the Shapes Toolkit training wholeheartedly to anyone leading a primary care service/general practice. Your teams will learn new skills, develop new mindsets and it will demonstrate that you care about their well-being."
Dr Jo Bircher
GP Partner and Clinical Lead for the Greater Manchester GP Excellence Programmme. âŻ
What Makes The Shapes Toolkit Different?
Designed by a GP and a team of doctors, specifically for staff working in health and social care - so we know this works.
Engaging, interactive and practical training delivered live both face-to-face and online.
An online library of downloadable resources and tools shared with you to support your learning and help you share it with your colleagues
Simple, powerful tools used by thousands of health professionals to tackle stress and help you thrive at work.
Delivered by experienced trainers, doctors and coaches, who know what it's like to work on the frontline in high stress jobs.Â
Opportunities to network with colleagues, share insights and experience and get some peer support.
The Shapes Toolkitâ˘: Practical tools for healthcare professionals who want to learn how to work sustainably
Created by Dr Rachel Morris, former GP - built from real experiences for real problems. Â
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Thousands of doctors and healthcare professionals across the UK and beyond use the Shapes Toolkit to work happier. They finish the week with more clarity on what they've achieved, fewer guilt spirals over the things they can't control, and something left in the tank.
The Shapes Toolkit was created by Dr Rachel Morris, a former GP who nearly burned out, and decided there must be a better way for professionals in high-stakes, high-pressure roles to thrive without leaving their careers.Â
She developed this practical, proven system of tools and frameworks alongside frontline healthcare professionals and leaders.
It's now used across primary and secondary care, in organisations across the UK and beyond.
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Trusted by Healthcare Organisations Across the UK
INVALUABLE!
âThank you to Shapes Toolkit for supporting our GPs and primary care teams in Somerset over the past two years. The online and in-person sessions are equally engaging.
These have been invaluable for our New to Practice GP Fellowship, and have been extremely well received.
I would highly recommend the workshops. They are a wonderful resource and support."
Dr Catherine Levers,
Medical Director, Somerset LMC
Not Sure Where to Start? Download Your Free Burnout Self-Assessment Toolkit.
Most healthcare professionals don't realise how close they are to burnout until it hits. If you've been "pushing through" for a while, this free toolkit will help you understand how you're doing and what to do about it. A short self-assessment, a clear result, and practical next steps based on where you actually are.
Real World Training with Real Impact
In 2025, our NPS score was 4.78 - meaning 95.6% of participants in our training would recommend, or highly recommend, our training to a colleague.
âOutside the usual NHS leadership content and inspiring to think differentlyâ
âUsing the Shapes Toolkit I calculate I've saved a whole day per week from being able to more efficiently and effectively mentor and delegate. I love my job again - and I've been able to take on new roles that align with my values and enable me to facilitate, represent and help more people.â
"The Shapes Academy has been absolutely brilliant. I feel much more in control over my âNHS overwhelmâ. I love the app so I can dip in and remind myself about the tools. Best for me is the prioritisation grid. I plan time for the things important to me and that includes my non work interests which I find I am now doing more and more of since putting âshapesâ into my daily practice."
âEven if you think you have heard a version of this type of thing done another way there will be something new that you take from it.âÂ
âGreat for people at capacity and not good at setting boundaries.âÂ
âReally easy to grasp the concepts... plenty of things that can be applied to daily life.âÂ
"Condensed so many helpful strategies and reflective tasks in to a manageable one hour. Iâve been struggling with saying no and setting boundaries. The course has helped shift my mindset and freed me of some of the guilt I was experiencing."
"You have helped me get from a burnt out shell back to a fully functional GP again. The resources in the tool kit were invaluable to my recovery."
"As individuals we all looked at a couple of the worksheets starting with the stress curve to take a snapshot of how we were all feeling... then used what factors were causing that with the zone of power and what we could to redress the balance by really thinking what was in our control.Â
 Some really good feedback and reflections from the team."
Get in touch to find out how we can help you, your team or your organisation.
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