Be extraordinary CPD: A doctor’s continuing professional development, well-being retreat on bias, and cultural safety

Learn about bias and how it impacts doctors and medicine; develop your skills for self-awareness, transformative unlearning and critical consciousness; hear from expert speakers on cultural safety and identify how you can leverage your clinical practice; and make completing the mandatory CPD requirements easy and meaningful.

Turn your March into something extraordinary and just for you!

Join us next 27-29 March 2026 at QT Newcastle Hotel in the coastal beach city of Newcastle, NSW.

Expect a weekend of relaxation and restoration, laughter, smiles, connection, new friends and growth. Practice skills for well-being and self-awareness. Hear from expert speakers on well-being, bias in medicine, and cultural safety.  Identify your own bias in medicine and find ways of optimising cultural safety in your practice.  Enjoy conducting a professional conversation to review your performance as a doctor and complete your mandatory professional development plan.  Conduct a cultural safety audit to leverage your practice. Be professionally supported and coached to complete up to 12 hours of CPD with 5 hours of reviewing performance, a professional conversation, completion of your professional development plan, and five hours of measuring outcomes on cultural safety. Be inspired and leave knowing yourself that little bit more masterfully.  Handouts with CPD templates and an acknowledgement of participation form are provided to use as evidence of the activities for your CPD home.  Mindfulness and self-care skills are incorporated into all group CPD sessions.  Enjoy optional daily yoga at Yoga Body Works, welcome drinks at Rooftop Bar QT Hotel, a private shopping experience at ) with afternoon and morning teas, lovely lunches, a 2-course Friday night dinner at Jana QT, and a banquet Saturday dinner at Oh My Pappa. All activities are optional offerings.  So, if you find yourself lost down a Newcastle Lane immersed in street art, don’t despair; you are most welcome to skip sessions to suit your needs.  We want you to feel at ease and free to do as you need. Learn more.

* Registration closes:

Thu, 19 March 2026

@ 6:00 am

Event dates

Event starts:

Fri, 27 March 2026

@ 2:00 pm

Event finishes:

Sun, 29 March 2026 @

3:30 pm

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