A comprehensive program designed to support veterinary professionals in achieving Personal, Business, and Leadership Excellence
Are you feeling burned out, overwhelmed, or questioning whether you can sustain this career you once loved?
You’re not alone.
The statistics are staggering – our profession faces some of the highest rates of anxiety, depression, and burnout across all healthcare fields. But here’s what most don’t realise: it’s not the medicine that’s breaking us. It’s our lack of resilience tools.
Why The Veterinary Resilience Formula?
A science-backed approach to building sustainable veterinary careers and thriving practices
Self-Discovery
Understand your authentic veterinary identity, natural strengths, and professional patterns to practice with greater confidence and clarity.
Balance
Learn practical strategies to balance professional excellence with personal wellbeing, reducing burnout and enhancing job satisfaction.
Team Cohesion
Build stronger team dynamics through improved communication, emotional intelligence, self-leadership, and shared professional values.
The Five Evidence-Based Modules
A comprehensive framework for building resilience in veterinary practice
MODULE 1
Identity
Understanding your authentic veterinary self
Recognising your patterns and triggers
Connecting with your original calling
MODULE 2
Life Stage
Mapping your veterinary journey
Understanding career phase challenges
Planning sustainable growth
MODULE 3
Values
Clarifying your professional principles
Aligning practice with purpose
Making value-based decisions
MODULE 4
Emotional Flexibility
Understanding the Event → Emotion → Meaning → Perception → Perspective sequence
Creating response choice points
Building emotional resilience
MODULE 5
Perspective
Seeing the bigger picture
Finding meaning in challenges
Maintaining professional balance
BONUS
Complimentary 30-Minute Strategy Session
Every participant receives a focused follow-up session with Dr. Larry van Niekerk to explore your specific challenges and map your next steps toward a more fulfilling veterinary career.
Imagine walking into work energised instead of dreading the day
Picture handling difficult cases and clients with confidence and calm. Envision going home fulfilled, knowing you made a difference without sacrificing your well-being.
Workshop Benefits
Transform your veterinary practice with these powerful outcomes
Reduced Burnout
Learn practical strategies to recognise and mitigate burnout before it affects your wellbeing and practice. Build your "pause muscle" to transform reactive patterns into thoughtful responses.
Enhanced Decision-Making
Make more confident clinical and business decisions aligned with your professional values. Develop your authentic veterinary identity as your internal GPS for navigating complex situations.
Improved Communication
Develop skills for more effective communication with clients, team members, and colleagues. Master the space between stimulus and response where resilience lives.
Better Work-Life Balance
Create sustainable boundaries that honour both your professional excellence and personal wellbeing. Learn to go home fulfilled, knowing you made a difference without sacrificing yourself.
Professional Growth
Identify clear pathways for development aligned with your authentic veterinary identity. Map your unique veterinary journey and plan sustainable growth instead of burning out.
Team Synergy
Build a more cohesive team through shared understanding and improved emotional intelligence. Start with yourself, then extend resilience to everyone around you.
about your facilitator
Dr. Larry van Niekerk
Dr. Larry van Niekerk is the founder of Vetsquared Innovet and creator of The Veterinary Resilience Formula. With extensive experience in veterinary practice and professional development, Dr. van Niekerk brings a unique perspective to helping veterinary professionals thrive in their careers.
This isn’t just theory – it’s a practical formula that transforms how you experience veterinary practice. Combining clinical expertise with deep knowledge of emotional intelligence and team dynamics, Dr. van Niekerk has helped countless veterinary practices transform their culture, improve team cohesion, and enhance professional satisfaction.
His approach integrates evidence-based strategies with practical applications designed specifically for the unique challenges of veterinary medicine. Every day, you’re making life-and-death decisions while managing difficult clients, financial pressures, and emotional cases that would break most people.
Your profession needs resilient veterinarians who can sustain long, fulfilling careers. Your patients need you at your best. Your family needs you present and passionate.
Workshop Delivery Options
Flexible formats to meet your team's needs
In-Person Workshop
Engage in hands-on learning with your entire team, facilitated by Dr. van Niekerk at your practice location. Available worldwide.
Live Online Workshop
Interactive virtual sessions with the same powerful content, delivered through engaging online formats.
Hybrid Programs
Combine in-person kickoff with ongoing virtual support for sustained implementation and growth.
Your Workshop Creates Global Impact
When you invest in your veterinary practice through our workshops, you’re simultaneously supporting fellow veterinary professionals and animal welfare projects worldwide. Through our partnership with B1G1, every workshop generates contributions that you can direct toward veterinary-focused causes – from funding spay/neuter programs and animal rescue operations to supporting mobile veterinary clinics in underserved communities.
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