Reclaim Your PhD is a short, affordable course designed to help you quickly feel back in control of your PhD. It introduces five foundational topics, with practical advice on managing your diary and tasks, overcoming procrastination and imposter syndrome, and being kinder to yourself. The focus is on making immediate, tangible changes to how you approach your PhD.

Membership offers ongoing support and goes much deeper into these challenges. It builds on everything you learn in Reclaim, with day-to-day and week-to-week support to help you put things into practice. You also get access to coaching, a community, co-working spaces, and a range of self-paced courses.

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Reclaim is the perfect introduction to Membership, helping you get to grips with our key concepts and start building the PhD life you want. The membership will then help you turn your good intentions into actual behaviour change, results, and a supportive community.

If you go on to join Membership in Q4, you’ll get a discount on your first quarter equivalent to the cost of Reclaim — so effectively, Reclaim is free. If you’re considering Membership, I’d definitely recommend starting with Reclaim.

And even if Membership isn’t for you, Reclaim stands alone as an affordable kickstart to help you start the new academic year feeling more in control and intentional in your PhD.

Reclaim includes five interactive webinars, which you can attend live or watch on demand. You’ll explore how you manage your time and tasks, and how you treat yourself, while learning practical tools to change the way you approach your PhD.

These aren’t just webinars to watch and forget. You’ll reflect on your own life, make decisions, and leave with actions to experiment with and refine. You’ll also have access to a community of fellow Reclaim participants and members, giving you the support and camaraderie that can often be missing from PhD life.

Even one webinar could fundamentally change how you approach your PhD. Sometimes, just 15 minutes of coaching helps a member see what they need to change, with a lasting impact.

You don’t have to engage with the whole programme to benefit. Everything is recorded, and you’ll have lifetime access, so you can return to the materials whenever you need a reset.

Remember, unhelpful perfectionism is one of the things we often need to untangle in our PhD lives, so we can start by practicing not being too perfectionist about how perfectly we need to engage in Reclaim to make it “worth it”!

Almost everyone in my membership has a history of buying new planners with much optimism and then falling off the wagon. Many (but not all) have diagnosed or suspected ADHD. I am an ADHD-informed coach, which means that I design my programmes to be compassionate, understanding and specifically structured to support people with these sort of challenges. There’s no such thing as “completing” the course, there’s no encouragement to do everything, and even engaging in a little bit of the programme can have a massive effect on your PhD life. So come optimistic but pragmatic and we’ll make sure you are glad you joined!