What's your current way of working doing to you as a person? To your relationships and your enjoyment of life?
The Shapes Academy is for you if...
✅ You’re a senior doctor, healthcare professional or clinical leader with a high-stakes role as well as your leadership responsibilities. You’re tired of working in a toxic culture of burnout as a badge of honour, and you’d like to be part of changing that
✅ You know you're capable, and you have plenty of experience under your belt — but you have so much on your plate you’re starting to doubt your abilities, and wonder if you’re just not up to the strain any more
✅ You’ve tried pushing through and fixing everything yourself… you’ve read the books and tested the “next big idea”... now you want something that works
✅ You don’t have time to stop and take a whole course - you want tools that are practical, fast to apply, and built for professionals on the frontline
✅ You’re ready to take back control of your work-life balance and support your team to work smarter, too
Imagine if...
You could do less and achieve more – so you could stay on top of your workload even when the demands are overwhelming.
You stopped feeling responsible for everyone and everything, and felt calm, confident, and capable in your decision-making and the conversations you have with your team.
You went from exhausted firefighter to calm, confident leader - using the Shapes Toolkit™ Unique System.
What exactly is the Shapes Toolkit™?
Inside The Shapes Academy, we teach the Shapes Toolkit - it’s like the Advanced Life Support course, but for humans working in healthcare.
You already know how ALS gives you a clear framework when everything’s falling apart - simple steps you can follow, even under pressure.
The Shapes Toolkit does the same - but for emotional and leadership emergencies - helping you protect your time and prioritise your workload, get a better work-life balance, respond calmly to stressful situations, stop rescuing people and deal effectively with conflict.
It gives you a structure using seven easy-to-remember shapes to help you stay in your performance zone, take a coaching approach, communicate clearly, and protect your energy when things get tough.
Thousands of clinicians and leaders across the NHS, from GP partners to clinical directors and ICB leads, use the Shapes every week to have difficult conversations they used to avoid, set boundaries that actually hold, and stop rescuing everyone at their own expense.
Escape overwhelm AND get leadership CPD using the unique Shapes Toolkit™ system
You can’t change the healthcare system overnight, but you CAN change how you (and your team!) work within it.
✅ Based on the unique Shapes Toolkit™ system - giving you time management, productivity and resilience solutions for the everyday challenges you face as a leader in healthcare.
✅ Includes done-for-you resources, including conversation frameworks and coaching tools, handouts, videos and team activities, to help you share your learning with your team
✅ Meets your appraisal and revalidation reflection needs
✅ Aligned with NHS Leadership Domains:
- Managing performance and resources
- Personal effectiveness
- Creating shared purpose
- Decision-making and systems thinking
✅ Many participants use their study budget or claim NHS reimbursement - download a funding request here.
✅ Self-certifiable for 3+ hours of CPD each month
“As a busy GP/ PCN CD The Shapes Academy has been absolutely brilliant.
I feel much more in control over my ‘NHS overwhelm’. Best for me is the prioritisation grid. I plan time for the things important to me, and that includes my non-work interests, which I find I am now doing more and more of since putting ‘shapes’ into my daily practice.
Rachel and the team just get what it is like working in the NHS in a high-stress job.
I’d recommend this if you just feel too busy and drained, you are saying yes to everything, and never have time to look after yourself. I’d give this a 5-star rating in every way and am so glad I signed up. Thank you."
Laura - GP
Here's how it works in 3 simple steps...
SIGN UP FOR INSTANT ACCESS TO THE ONLINE RESOURCES
Sign up and get instant access to all the Shapes Toolkit handouts and resources including the core 'Leading with the Shapes Toolkit' Online Course - teaching you how to use the Shapes, and helping you get a plan together for how you will lead your team without burning out yourself.
GET MONTHLY TOOLS + TRAINING DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX
Every month, get a 5 minute Shapes Booster video emailed direct to your inbox, and access to the live lunchtime Work Well Webinar, based on the 'Shape of the Month' PLUS get access to our quarterly live Team Leads Group Coaching Workshop and quarterly Shapes Advanced Training Masterclass - replays available
USE THE DONE-FOR-YOU ACTIVITIES WITH YOUR TEAM
Share the resources with your team using our online library of Shapes Videos, Conversation Canvases, and Team Activities for use in one-to-one conversations or team meetings. Put the tools into practice, learn to set boundaries and take a coaching approach with your team.
Discover the proven framework that thousands of NHS clinicians and leaders use to set boundaries, lead sustainably, and protect their wellbeing without compromising patient care.
Dr Rachel Morris, creator of The Shapes Academy, explains why senior healthcare leaders are burning out - and what to do about it.
When you sign up, you'll get instant access to:
The Shapes Academy "Leading with the Shapes Toolkit" Online Course
9 x core content video lessons with accompanying handouts and activities.
Understand how to use the Shapes Toolkit™ to manage your workload, prioritise, set boundaries and support your team without burning out yourself.
Team Resources Library
Access our comprehensive library of done-for-you handouts, conversation canvases, short training videos and activities to help your team handle challenges and tackle stress.
Easy to use - categorised by topic, and available for instant download in ready-to-use formats.
Then each month, we'll send you:
Bite-Sized Shapes Videos
Every month we'll send you a 5-minute "Shape of the Month" Booster video with ONE simple, practical idea you can apply right away - and an accompanying coaching activity.
Watch it by yourself, and/or share with your team. We give you 5, 20 or 40-minute activities, plus handouts and slides to make them easy to use in team meetings.
Lunchtime Work Well Webinars
Our monthly 45-minute Work Well Webinars are delivered by Dr Rachel Morris, Dr Sarah Coope and the Wild Monday team of doctors, trainers and coaches. They focus on the most pressing issues that doctors and other professionals on the frontline are facing right now, and use the Shapes Toolkit to offer practical and tangible solutions. Join live or watch on demand.
Plus, get a quarterly invite to:
90-minute Advanced Shapes Training Masterclasses
Get an annual pass to all four of our advanced masterclasses for doctors and senior healthcare professionals (usual price £47). You can expect topics like How To Deal With Conflict At Work, How To Lead Without Rescuing, and Escape The Urgency Trap. Includes the replay, CPD log and workbook.
Quarterly Team Leaders' Group Coaching Workshops
Themed, 90-minute online group coaching masterclasses to help you take the lead on wellbeing, resilience and beating burnout in your organisation, tackling live issues facing leaders right now. Bring your own dilemmas, share your learning with the group and connect with colleagues in the same boat as you. Replays available.
"My role is still extremely high pressured... but I actually feel in control! Using the tools, I can quickly assess what's important, what to prioritise, and what to let go.
The Shapes Academy has given me the ability to be assertive, say no and mean it - reducing conflict with managers and other colleagues.
I love knowing I can log on any time I want and watch a quick bite-sized video - I use the tools and resources every day.”
- Mark Thompson, Development Support Manager, Training Hub
Shapes Academy Enrolment now open until 4th December 2025
Doors to the Academy open for a limited time - this is your final chance to access Shapes Academy in 2025.
TIME-LIMITED BONUS: Get 12 months access for £297 (annual) until the 14th of November.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
BUY NOWMONTHLY SUBCSCRIPTION
BUY NOW
100% no quibbles money back promise
If, within 90 days, you haven’t found any of the tools, resources, videos and webinars of any value, simply email us and we will refund 100% of your payment. No questions asked.
What healthcare professionals say about the Shapes Toolkit
"They really get what it's like working in the NHS in a high-stress job."
“As a busy GP/ PCN CD The Shapes Academy has been absolutely brilliant.
I feel much more in control over my ‘NHS overwhelm’. Best for me is the prioritisation grid. I plan time for the things important to me, and that includes my non-work interests, which I find I am now doing more and more of since putting ‘shapes’ into my daily practice.
Rachel and the team just get what it is like working in the NHS in a high-stress job. The meetings with them feel safe and personal, and in the breakout rooms, listening to how other people are doing, it is very normalising and reassuring.
I’d recommend this if you just feel too busy and drained, you are saying yes to everything, and never have time to look after yourself.
I’d give this a 5-star rating in every way and am so glad I signed up. Thank you."
Laura - GP
"I'm better at managing my time, better at saying no - and I don't feel so guilty."
"One of my colleagues went off with burnout - it could have happened to any of us. When I talked to my GP, they were supportive, but their advice was basically "the next step is to take time off". But I really wanted to try and do something other than that.
I've always wanted to do something that helps our whole team rather than just me. So I asked my work to fund a place for me at the Shapes Academy.
It rescued me last year, I have to say.
What worked best for me was having a little bit every month, that regular drip feed. Now, I'm better at managing my time. I'm better at saying no. And I'm much better at scheduling time to do non-work things, and I don't feel so guilty about doing it.
It should be part of our mandatory training."
Jayne - Consultant Physician
"I'm now working 9-5 - and not thinking about work when I'm at home!"
"I used to wake at 3 am worrying about my workload, with constant interruptions from the team for me to solve problems, meaning delays to my time-critical work.
Accounts and associated business costs, wages and CCG claims were left right until the last minute, meaning additional stress for me, working late and at weekends.
Having discovered the Shapes Toolkit, I'm now working 9-5 and never checking emails in between. I'm confident the team are handling everything and is empowered to make decisions and take action, knowing what the priorities are. I'm not thinking about work when I'm at home!"
Helen - Practice Manager
"I was prepared and calm!"
“Two weeks ago, we covered the prioritisation grid in the toolkit. As a result, I set time in my calendar to prepare for today's talk and set a timer to ensure I didn't find something else to do whilst I was prepping. As a result, it went really well today, I was prepared, calm and even had time to consider getting a relative to join me to share their story, so thank you. I'm not keen on preparation, I often wing it, but I've learnt that practice and preparation are key to success! ”
- Shapes Academy participant
"Helps to identify and prioritise changes"
"The Shapes Toolkit helps to identify and prioritise changes that will empower people in their everyday work/personal life balance."
- Shapes Academy participant
"I wish I had this information and toolkit for my younger self."
"This stuff is like unveiling the great mysteries of life! I wish I had this information and toolkit for my younger self. Not just as a professional but also on a personal level"
- Shapes Academy participant
"A game-changer in CPD provision"
- Shapes Academy participant
"Valuable reminder as to how to avoid feeling overwhelmed in the current NHS climate"
"Valuable reminder as to how to avoid feeling overwhelmed in the current NHS climate - where workload is increasing and the expectation is to deliver more with reduced resources."
- Shapes Academy participant
"The zone of power has really helped me"
"Talking with others with similar experiences... has kept me going the last 2 years. I accept that the system won't get better, but I want to try so that my local hospital is a great place to be a patient when I am retired (not too many years away).
The zone of power has really helped me recently. A challenge that seemed insurmountable and outside my ZoP actually contained lots of small things that individually were in my ZoP, and tacking it that way meant it's now sorted."
- Shapes Academy participant
Get 12 MONTHS ACCESS TO THE SHAPES ACADEMY
JUST £297
TEAM MEMBERSHIP
Want to join with your organisation?
Team membership is an affordable way for everyone in a practice or organisation to get access to the tools and start changing the way they work as a collective. You’ll see change happen faster and engagement increase when everyone’s putting the same tools into practice – plus, you can hold each other accountable and remind each other of the resources you need!
Use the button below to contact us to find out how the resources will benefit your organisation, and find out about bulk membership options.
CONTACT US TO FIND OUT MORE
FAQ’s - your questions answered
I don't have time for another course - how will I fit this in?
I've tried other ways to support my team—how is this different?
Can I use my study budget to fund this course?
What if I'm neurodivergent?
How long do I get access?
What if it doesn't work for me?
Have more questions?
Fill out the form and we'll do our best to answer them!
