In healthcare, many of us feel it before we can name it. Burnout is often framed as an individual weakness or a capacity problem - something to be fixed with a course, a resilience module, or a well-meaning intervention added to an already impossible workload. But what if burnout is not the problem?   What if it is the early warning system? Healthcare professionals, senior leaders, and those trying to shift intractable systems are often the canaries - not because they are fra

Here in the UK, Christmas has passed. We are in that quiet stretch of winter when the light begins to return, slowly and almost imperceptibly. If you pay attention, you can feel it. The days lengthen. The rhythms shift. At To Focus change attention is where our work begins. Our theme for 2026 is burnout. Burnout in healthcare, as we see it, is a form of extraction. More time. More emails. More patients. More pressure, squeezed into smaller and smaller spaces. Even resilience

As we close this year, many people in healthcare are not thinking about goals or growth. They are thinking about how exhausted they are. Burnout is no longer an exception or a weakness. It is a signal. And next year, we want to respond to that signal in a way that is practical, humane, and grounded in how real systems and real people actually grow. In 2026, our work will focus explicitly on burnout in healthcare settings, explored through the rhythm of the seasons: Winter:  p