Burnout Recovery Seasonal Cohort

Community safety

South LA City of Los Angeles (select only if your project has a citywide benefit) West LA Central LA East LA County of Los Angeles (select only if your project has a countywide benefit)

Expand existing project, program, or initiative (expanding and continuing ongoing, successful work)

Burnout has become the silent epidemic of our lifetime. While the World Health Organization has finally distinguished it with official diagnosis criteria, we are still learning about the mechanics and effects of this affliction. 12 billion US working days are lost every year due to depression and anxiety at a cost of $ 1 trillion per year in lost productivity. With about 50% of millennials quitting their jobs due to burnout in 2022, a demographic that currently makes up nearly 40% of the workforce, burnout is bad for business and bad for the human essence. Especially for those millennials, our main customer segment, the time to support our next generation of leaders is now. Treats. is committed to tackling this urgent generational issue by offering the time for people to practice the modalities they know work for them, safe space to try new things and creative inspiration in a time homogenized by technology.

Grounded in the understanding that recovery and prevention are not one-size-fits-all, Treats. has an opportunity to provide the people of Los Angeles with a unique experience truly responsive to the natural seasons our bodies move through. For three months each, we would lead a 30-person cohort through programming structured around a seasonal theme: Fall’s shedding, Winter’s hibernation, Spring’s renewal and Summer’s flourishing. This cyclical approach not only honors life’s ebb and flow, the truncated time period encourages participants to truly focus on their needs in a concentrated way. In addition to addressing the personal reasons for a lack of boundaries and people pleasing, burnout recovery specifically requires repeated action and extended time spent in a flow state to begin rewiring our brains away from a reward system based in stress and toward one based in positive action. Cohorts promote a safe space meant for trial and error as well as the community touch points required to maintain accountability. While Treats. programming is never meant to feel like work, there is great value in putting structure and intention around our free time when it feels like a struggle. As they see fit, participants are then invited to join other season’s cohorts, aligning with the idea that care personalization is possible and necessary as the wellness industry continues to grow. You know what’s best for you. Treats. gives you the container and clarity to find what that looks like.

A fundamental Treats. tennant is that individuals functioning at their best leads to a society functioning at its best. Burnout takes so much from us, leaving us distracted, disconnected from our communities and lost when it comes to life direction. A dysregulated nervous system and prolonged, unresolved time spent in a stress cycle affect many parts of the brain that influence decision making and survival response. With almost 10 million people living in Los Angeles County today, there are too many people acting on that survival and not able to contribute the way they are uniquely meant to. Treats. has served over 600 individuals so far who have reported, many after just one session, that they leave our events feeling “clear” and “free” with “permission” to be themselves. We hope to provide up to 1,000 participants yearly and eventually all of LA County with the healing and space to thrive that the wonderful people of this city deserve.