Professional Development
For teams wanting to know what to look for and what to do next.
Complex and overlapping presentations are increasingly part of everyday healthcare, yet many of these areas receive limited attention in formal training. Your team may be wondering...
Could this presentation point to something more?
Who is best placed to assess or diagnose this?
What can we safely support within our respective scopes?
When should we refer, collaborate or co-treat?
How can we make care more informed, inclusive and coordinated?
Our professional development is designed to give your team a clearer shared framework for recognising what may be going on, understanding what happens next and knowing where each practitioner can contribute.
Seeing Stripes is our series of 60-minute professional development workshops designed for clinics, practices and healthcare teams.
Each workshop provides a practical introduction to a condition or area of care, helping your team understand how it may present, how it is typically assessed or diagnosed and where different health professionals may contribute.
The aim isn’t to turn your team into specialists in 60 minutes.
It’s to help them:
Choose one workshop or combine any three to create a professional development series around the needs of your team.
Each workshop provides a practical introduction to a condition or area of care, helping your team understand how it may present, how it is typically assessed or diagnosed and where different health professionals may contribute.
The aim isn’t to turn your team into specialists in 60 minutes.
It’s to help them:
- Recognise what may be going on
- Understand relevant assessment and diagnostic pathways
- Respond within their role - whether that means treating, adapting their approach, referring onwards or collaborating with other practitioners
Choose one workshop or combine any three to create a professional development series around the needs of your team.
One hour, one topic, a clearer way forward
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Our workshops
Symptomatic Hypermobility
Dysautonomia
Energy-limiting Conditions
Give your team a practical introduction to Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD) and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and the clinical considerations that can help practitioners recognise when joint hypermobility may be part of a broader presentation.
Your team will explore:
Your team will explore:
- Recognising common features and presentations associated with symptomatic hypermobility
- Key assessment considerations and pathways towards diagnosis
- Foundational principles of management, including when referral, collaboration or interdisciplinary care may be helpful
Help your team build a practical understanding of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), including how it may present in practice and how different health professionals can contribute to diagnosis and management.
Your team will explore:
Your team will explore:
- Common signs, symptoms and presentations associated with POTS
- How POTS is assessed and diagnosed, and who may be involved in this process
- Principles of management, including treatment, referral and interdisciplinary care
Build your team’s foundational understanding of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), with particular attention to post-exertional malaise (PEM) and the implications this has for assessment and care.
Your team will explore:
Your team will explore:
- Key features of ME/CFS, including post-exertional malaise (PEM)
- Assessment, diagnostic pathways and important clinical considerations
- Foundational principles of pacing, energy management, referral and person-centred care
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Trauma-informed Care
Neuro-affirming Care
Gender-affirming Care
Help your team consider how traumatic stress and previous healthcare experiences can influence engagement with care, and how everyday clinical practice can support greater safety, choice and collaboration.
Your team will explore:
Your team will explore:
- Foundational principles of trauma-informed care
- How experiences of trauma may influence healthcare interactions
- Practical considerations for communication, consent, assessment and management
Explore neuro-affirming approaches to healthcare and practical ways your team can adapt communication, environments and care to better support neurodivergent people.
Your team will explore:
Your team will explore:
- How sensory, communication and processing differences may influence healthcare experiences
- Foundational principles of neuro-affirming practice
- Practical adaptations to support accessible and collaborative assessment and management
Support your team to provide more respectful, inclusive and affirming care for trans and gender-diverse people.
Your team will explore:
Your team will explore:
- Foundational principles of gender-affirming healthcare
- How language, systems and clinical environments can shape someone’s experience of care
- Practical affirming approaches to communication, assessment and management
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60 minutes of live learning
Focused professional development designed to fit easily into your existing team learning schedule.
A shared clinical framework
Help your team develop common language and a clearer understanding of recognition, assessment pathways and roles in care.
Practical clinical application
Foundational knowledge and strategies your team can take back into everyday practice.
Time for questions
An opportunity to explore the topic with your educator and consider how the learning applies within your clinic or service.
Resources to return to
Presentation slides and relevant supporting clinical resources to revisit after the workshop.
Certificate of attendance
Each participant receives a certificate documenting one hour of professional development for their CPD records.
Focused professional development designed to fit easily into your existing team learning schedule.
A shared clinical framework
Help your team develop common language and a clearer understanding of recognition, assessment pathways and roles in care.
Practical clinical application
Foundational knowledge and strategies your team can take back into everyday practice.
Time for questions
An opportunity to explore the topic with your educator and consider how the learning applies within your clinic or service.
Resources to return to
Presentation slides and relevant supporting clinical resources to revisit after the workshop.
Certificate of attendance
Each participant receives a certificate documenting one hour of professional development for their CPD records.
What's included
Every Seeing Stripes workshop includes:
Single workshop
$450 + GST
Choose any 60-minute Seeing Stripes workshop for your team.
Three-workshop series
$1,250 + GST
Choose any three Seeing Stripes workshops and save $100.
Sessions can be scheduled across different dates, allowing you to build an ongoing professional development series around your team’s priorities.
$450 + GST
Choose any 60-minute Seeing Stripes workshop for your team.
Three-workshop series
$1,250 + GST
Choose any three Seeing Stripes workshops and save $100.
Sessions can be scheduled across different dates, allowing you to build an ongoing professional development series around your team’s priorities.
Choose one or build a series
Seeing Stripes can be delivered live online to healthcare teams anywhere in Australia. Online delivery is included in the workshop price.
Prefer to bring your team together in person? We'll come to you. On-site workshops are available to organisations located within 30 km of our Abbotsford clinic for an additional $75 + GST per visit.
If you’re located further away, please get in touch to discuss what may be possible.
Prefer to bring your team together in person? We'll come to you. On-site workshops are available to organisations located within 30 km of our Abbotsford clinic for an additional $75 + GST per visit.
If you’re located further away, please get in touch to discuss what may be possible.
Online or in-person
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Lee is an established osteopath, educator and yoga teacher with a particular interest in supporting people living with chronic and complex health conditions.
Alongside her clinical work at Zebras Australia, Lee brings extensive experience in education, including teaching anatomy and physiology, delivering professional development and supporting health professionals through tutorials, mentoring and practitioner training.
As Zebras Australia’s Learning and Development Lead, Lee supports the learning and development of our interdisciplinary team and helps us share what we’ve learned beyond the walls of Zebras.
Lee Hoogeveen (she/her)
I’m warm-hearted, curious
and innovative
Meet your educator
Seeing Stripes is designed for clinics, practices and allied healthcare teams interested in building shared knowledge and confidence in chronic and complex care.
Our interdisciplinary approach means workshops can be relevant to teams made up of different professions and levels of experience.
Our interdisciplinary approach means workshops can be relevant to teams made up of different professions and levels of experience.
Absolutely.
You can book an individual workshop for $450 + GST, or choose any three Seeing Stripes workshops for $1,250 + GST.
Your three sessions can be scheduled across different dates, allowing you to create an ongoing professional development series for your team.
You can book an individual workshop for $450 + GST, or choose any three Seeing Stripes workshops for $1,250 + GST.
Your three sessions can be scheduled across different dates, allowing you to create an ongoing professional development series for your team.
Seeing Stripes workshops are designed as professional development for health professionals and may contribute towards individual CPD requirements where the learning is relevant to a participant’s scope of practice and professional development needs.
CPD requirements vary between professions and professional bodies, and individual participants remain responsible for determining whether an activity meets the requirements of their relevant Board or professional association.
Each participant receives a certificate of attendance documenting one hour of professional development.
CPD requirements vary between professions and professional bodies, and individual participants remain responsible for determining whether an activity meets the requirements of their relevant Board or professional association.
Each participant receives a certificate of attendance documenting one hour of professional development.
Yes.
On-site delivery is available within 30 km of our Abbotsford clinic for an additional $75 + GST per visit.
For organisations further afield, workshops are available live online Australia-wide, or you can get in touch to discuss alternative arrangements.
On-site delivery is available within 30 km of our Abbotsford clinic for an additional $75 + GST per visit.
For organisations further afield, workshops are available live online Australia-wide, or you can get in touch to discuss alternative arrangements.
Our Seeing Stripes workshops have established topics and learning outcomes, while examples and discussion can be adapted to suit your team’s professional mix, experience and practice setting.
If you’re looking for something more substantially tailored, or a different topic altogether we also offer bespoke professional development.
If you’re looking for something more substantially tailored, or a different topic altogether we also offer bespoke professional development.
You're in good company
Our professional development is informed by the work we do every day, supporting people living with chronic and complex health conditions and sharing what we’re learning with the wider healthcare community.
Consultations delivered
Of health professionals educated
Education delivered
20,000+
Hundreds
National & international
Expertise
Interdisciplinary