The Healthy Designer [Beta Launch]

Cohort-based Course

Creative recalibration for the emotionally exhausted designer. Come reset your nervous system, your mindset, and reinvigorate your career.

The Healthy Designer [Beta Launch]

Cohort-based Course

Creative recalibration for the emotionally exhausted designer. Come reset your nervous system, your mindset, and reinvigorate your career.

Hosted by

Jacquie Wortley and Alex M. Chong

Ex-Design Directors. Current Creative Freedom Enthusiasts.

Jacquie Wortley and Alex M. Chong

Ex-Design Directors. Current Creative Freedom Enthusiasts.

No desire to be employed by

Course overview

Shift from high-functioning burnout to true alignment and momentum.

What You’ll Get Inside The Healthy Designer

This isn’t just a course, it’s a creative reset.

🥕 Clarity on what you truly want

Not just the job title or the promotion, but the lifestyle, the creative expression, and the values that matter most to you.

🥕 A mindset shift from scarcity to self-trust

Learn how to stop outsourcing your worth to your output and start making decisions from a grounded, empowered place.

🥕 Reconnection to your creative identity

You’ll rediscover what lights you up creatively, beyond what clients, employers, or the industry expects.

🥕 Design-led tools for self-coaching & alignment

We bring design thinking into personal growth, because you’re not just a worker, you’re a whole human. Expect whiteboarding sessions, reflection frameworks, and creative identity templates.

🥕 An actionable, aligned career strategy

By the end, you’ll have a real plan, whether you’re staying in Product Designer, discovering your creative practice outside of work, or building something new.

🥕 Real talk from people who’ve been there

Led by two ex-design leads who’ve navigated burnout, identity loss, and big pivots, and came out the other side with more energy and more freedom.

Does this sound familiar?

You should be thriving, but you feel disconnected. Your creative spark’s gone and design just… isn’t hitting anymore.

You’ve rested, journaled, even meditated, but the burnout creeps back the second you open your laptop.

You want to make a change, but you’re stuck. Quit? Freelance? Rebrand? Nothing feels like a clear yes.

You should be thriving, but you feel disconnected. Your creative spark’s gone and design just… isn’t hitting anymore.

You’ve rested, journaled, even meditated, but the burnout creeps back the second you open your laptop.

You want to make a change, but you’re stuck. Quit? Freelance? Rebrand? Nothing feels like a clear yes.

It's time to take back your Creative Magic 🪄

Understand the root causes of creative burnout and how industry structures impact your energy, identity, and motivation.

Get to the why behind your burnout. We unpack the hidden forces, like hustle culture, toxic expectations, and industry systems that drain your energy and disconnect you from your purpose, creativity, and sense of self.

Rebuild a healthy relationship with design by separating self-worth from job titles and external validation.

You are not your job title. In this module, we help you untangle your identity from your output, release the need for constant validation, and build a new relationship with design that’s rooted in joy, not performance.

Develop sustainable strategies to protect your energy, set boundaries, and stay connected to meaningful work.

Design a workflow that protects your peace. Learn how to set boundaries without guilt, manage your energy with intention, and stay connected to meaningful work - without burning out or abandoning yourself.

Reconnect with your creative identity and define success on your own terms, grounded in purpose, not productivity.

Rediscover the version of you who loved creating just because. You’ll define success on your terms and reconnect to design as an expression of your purpose, not just a path to productivity, prestige, or performance.

This course includes

5 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

19 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

8 projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

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Healthy-Certified Designer

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Feedback from our previous students

Having Jacquie as a mentor has been one of the most grounding and empowering experiences of my career. Her guidance helped me find trust in my creative process and value in my own voice. She created space for growth, encouraged reflection, and always reminded me of my worth.

Ben Habib

Lead Product Designer

Working with Alex has helped me fundamentally shift how I approach my life, goals, and identity. For the first time, I’ve learned how to build evidence for myself—proof that I can do anything I put my mind to. More than anything, Alex has helped me learn how to show up for myself, even when things feel heavy or uncertain.

Sanjeev K.

Creative Producer

Meet your instructors

Jacquie Wortley

I’m Jacquie, a former Director of Design, now Fractional Head of Design, founder of a creative consultancy, and career & business coach. With over a decade in the industry, I’ve led teams, built brands, and scaled products, but my real work is helping creatives reconnect to themselves.

Through a blend of strategy, systems, and inner work, I help designers move from burnout to alignment - because when your inner world shifts, your work (and life) transforms.

Alex M. Chong

Alex is a Design Leader, Coach and Educator who draws well over a decade of design leadership experience from companies big and small, from government to corporate to startups to design communities. Interacting with hundreds of designers, he consolidates his experience into a vibrant UX coaching practice that helps designers to find clarity, confidence, and creative energy in the part of their work that matters most.

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