The self-care model is often individual-centered: you do your bit of self-care (yoga, walk, mindfulness, whatever people chose to do) and you have a good work-life balance and you won’t burnout. Not really, because burnout is more about “how” we work, that “how much”. So it’s more nuanced than the work-life balance model. Burnout is not a problem of the individual but of the system, of the way we work, of how organisations are run (often bureaucratic, no matter if flat of top-down) and of the work culture itself. I have encountered people who take care of themselves but work in toxic work environments, and this includes activist groups or social change organisations. So self-care becomes a crutch to plough through. Burnout is often misunderstood because it’s tackled at an individual level only, instead we need an approach that is both individual and systemic. I hope the conversation will continue…