Program at a glance
When you join us for the 2025 HPS Wellness Retreat, you can expect:
- Talks on the 2025 CPD requirements, well-being leadership skills, professional listening & sharing, self-care & goal setting
- Self-care skills practice, mindfulness, yoga & relaxation sessions
- Expertly facilitated & coached group sessions, making your CPD inspiring & empowering
- Complete 12 hours of CPD with 2 hours of education including 1.5 hours pre-reading, 5 hours onsite ‘reviewing performance’ including your mandatory professional development plan & an ‘annual professional conversation,’& 3.5 hours onsite (& up to 5 hours following a re-audit) of ‘measuring outcomes’ with a self-care audit
- Achieve near completion of the minimum requirements, making CPD easily achievable & stress-free
- Session handouts & CPD templates are provided to upload to your CPD home
Program breakdown
| Friday 25 Jy 2025 | Friday 25 July 2025 | After 31 May 2025 | |
| 7.00pm - 8.00pm | Welcome circle | ||
| own time | Self-directed values/priorities reflection for reviewing performance (cat 2) | ||
| Friday 25 July 2025 | Saturday 26 July 2025 |
(AC, PDP, 4.5 hours cat 2) | |
| 7.30am - 9.00am | Optional morning stretch yoga | ||
| 9.30am - 10.00am | CPD requirements talk |
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| 10.00am - 10.30am | Group CPD session Preparing your professional annual conversation, active listening & professional sharing |
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| 10.30am - 10.45am | Morning tea |
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| 10.45am - 1.00pm | Group CPD session Professional annual conversation |
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| 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Lunch | ||
| 2.00pm - 3.00pm | Group CPD session Professional development plan & how to make goals happen |
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| 3.00pm - 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3.30pm - 4.30pm | Optional guided relaxation & deep reflection on values & priorities for CPD |
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| 5.00pm - 6.00pm | Optional afternoon relaxation yoga |
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| 7.00pm - 8.30pm | Dinner | ||
| 8.30pm - 9.00pm | Self-directed values/priorities reflection & audit preparation (cat 3) |
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| Frid5 Jul 2025 | Sunday 27 July 2025 |
(3 hours cat 3) | |
| 8.00am - 8.45am | Optional morning stretch yoga | ||
| 9.30am - 11.00am | Group CPD session Self-care audit |
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| 11.00am - 11.30am | Morning tea |
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| 11.30am - 1.30pm | Group CPD session Self-care audit |
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| 1.30pm - 2.30pm | Optional guided relaxation & deep Lunch on values & priorities for CPD | ||
RACP CPD Category 2 & 3 Requirements
- A minimum of 25 hours of activities from across Category 2 - Reviewing Performance and Category 3 - Measuring Outcomes.
- Category 2 involves feedback from others on clinical and professional practice, such as peer review of records, patient feedback or multi-source feedback. This includes completion of the Annual Conversation and Professional Development Plan, which are mandatory Category 2 activities.
- Category 3 involves measurement of health outcomes and might include an audit of standards or guidelines, practice against relevant EVOLVE recommendations, or incident reporting/monitoring.
- You must complete a minimum of 5 hours of activities in each of these categories and can decide the best mix to suit your practice.
- This might mean you complete 5 hours of activities in category 2 and 20 hours in category 3. Or you could complete 15 hours of activities in category 2 and 10 hours in category 3.
- It's expected that the 2 mandatory activities, professional development plan and annual conversation will enable you to meet the minimum requirement for category 2.
Program and details correct at the time of print and subject to change.
HPS Conference Secretariat
Email: secretariat@hpsociety.org.au
Website: hpsociety.org.au
Phone: 0249 736 573