The online membership for doctors, busy leaders and professionals in healthcare
The Shapes Academy
Retain your staff. Reclaim your wellbeing. Support your team without burning out yourself.
Get training, tools and community so you can stop rescuing people, feel calm, and escape the overwhelm.
(Even if you feel responsible for everyone and everything)
An online membership for doctors & senior healthcare professionals, leaders and managers, trainers and supervisors and coaches & mentors in healthcare, which will transform the way you approach your work and help you share the Shapes Toolkit with your team
Giving you online core content lessons teaching you how to lead with the Shapes Toolkit, a library of bitesize videos and done-for-you team building resilience activities, monthly Shapes booster videos and deep dive live masterclasses plus a community of likeminded colleagues to help you and your team beat burnout and work happier.
Tackle your own stress and overwhelm
Create more time and headspace, respond better to stressful events, and learn how to set boundaries, say no and deal with pushback.
Follow our core content programme of videos, activities and handouts to apply the Shapes Toolkit principles to your own work.
Lead without having to ‘fix it’ for everyone
Learn how to use The Shapes Tools in one-to-one conversations and take a coaching approach with your team instead of feeling like you have to rescue everyone.
Our online core content lessons and live deep-dive masterclasses will help you put your learning into practice.
Help your team beat burnout
Create a workplace where everyone can beat burnout and work happier.
Use our library of bitesize video resources, team resilience building activities and training with your team to share the Shapes tools with your colleagues.
You’re a doctor, senior healthcare professional, trainer or supervisor, coach or mentor, leader or manager in health or social care, doing a demanding day job and also supporting a team.
It's exhausting.
And you just don’t have the time or resources to do it all. Everyone is stretched thin, battling burnout, and wishing someone else would support them. Resentment, conflict and burnout can quickly set in.
The Shapes Academy is a practical way for leaders like you to retain your staff and reclaim your wellbeing. With simple tools that help teams beat stress, take control of their workload, and transform the way they communicate.
Dr Rachel Morris introduces the Shapes Academy
The Shapes Academy is an online membership containing core content video lessons, monthly live group coaching support and a library of bitesize videos and activities.
Learn how to use The Shapes Toolkit coaching, productivity and resilience tools so you and your team can break the cycle of burnout and thrive at work.
I feel much more in control of my "NHS Overwhelm"!
“As a busy GP/ PCN CD The Shapes Academy has been absolutely brilliant. I feel much more in control over my ‘NHS overwhelm’. I love the app so I can dip in and remind myself about the tools. 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, and you do need to practice. Rachel and Annie are just full of knowledge and tips and just get what it is like working in the NHS in a high stress job. The meetings with them feel safe and personal and the in the break out 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 having time to look after yourself. For me this was the first step to change. I now value my own time more and feel like I have a lot more choice in my life. Since starting the course, I actually booked all my annual leave, joined an art group and have done a couple of really fun things I have been putting off for years. I am doing things that I actually enjoy. I’d give this a 5 star rating in every way and am so glad I signed up. Thank you."
GP - South London
INTRODUCING THE SHAPES TOOLKIT
Transforming healthcare leaders and their teams
Our face-to-face and digital tools and trainings are based on The Shapes Toolkit: a set of tools drawn from coaching techniques, the latest leadership thinking, and neuroscience.
It was created by Dr Rachel Morris, a GP who discovered these tools when she trained as an Executive Coach - and wished she'd discovered them years ago when she first qualified as a doctor! We have shared the Shapes Toolkit with doctors and other healthcare professionals around the country over the last few years and they have transformed the way many leaders and their teams are approaching their workload and working together.
Find choices and stop feeling trapped by your many responsibilities.
The Zone of Power helps you work out what's in and what's out of your control
Feel calmer, respond better, say no and set boundaries.
The 'In the Corner' shape helps you understand how you react to stressful situations and change how you think and respond
Get clear about the causes of workplace stress.
The Stressors Hexagon helps you find out what's really going on and make the small changes that count.
Know how to tackle stress before it turns into burnout.
The Vortex of Busyness helps you identify the wellbeing factors which will help you feel better and work well.
Get the time and headspace to focus on what’s important.
The Prioritisation Grid helps you to manage your workload and escape the urgency trap.
Save time and stress by empowering your team to take control of their needs and support each other.
The Conversation Pentagon helps you take a coaching approach rather than trying to fix it for everyone.
Help people around you without constantly rescuing them.
The Drama Triangle helps you identify when you're taking a victim, rescuer or persecutor mentality and helps you escape these toxis roles.
... Do something that helps our whole team rather than just me
"I joined because I was approaching burnout. One of my colleagues went off with burnout, and looking back I could see 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 work to fund a place for me on 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. I think it's something that should be part of our mandatory training."
Jayne - Consultant Physician
What you will get…
Shapes Academy is based on our breakthrough Shapes Toolkit programme and includes:
Live training
Monthly live deep dive group coaching masterclasses with access to replays if you can’t make it
Team resources library
Short training videos and activities to help your team handle challenges and tackle stress
The Shapes Toolkit
Core content lessons including handouts, videos and activities teaching you how to lead and support your team with 1:1 conversations with the Shapes Toolkit resouces.
Peer connection
A thriving community of like-minded peers to share your insights with and ask for support from.
App for your phone
Instant access to all the resources on your phone via a dedicated app.
Shapes booster
Each month, get a 5-minute video plus a choice of bitesize resources. Succinct. Helpful. Practical.
Plus special bonuses
On joining today you will also receive instant access to the following:
Wellbeing
QI Toolkit
A practical toolkit to help wellbeing leads, practice managers and team leaders assess team wellbeing and do a wellbeing QI project.
Beat Stress
& Thrive Course
Our signature 6-module e-course to help you move out of overwhelm, and take back control. Brand new and updated for 2024, this gives you 6-8 hours of CPD.
(If you’re on the edge of burnout - do this first!)
The StressLess
Dashboard
A 72-page eBook, with practical tips on managing your own wellbeing, so you can keep calm and get more energy in your life
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Discover the training, tools and done-for-you resources for you to support your team to thrive even in high-stakes, high-pressure environments.
Shapes Academy membership for leaders and managers of healthcare teams
Get the tools and resources you need to support your team to collaborate, communicate and handle stress better - without burning out yourself.
Membership includes:
✔️ Brand new booster video every month with a leadership tool you can apply with your team
✔️ Full library of done-for-you team activities, including downloadable slides & worksheets and options for 5, 20 or 40-minute activities.
✔️ Monthly live masterclass sessions so you can apply what you've learned and get support with your current challenges - also available on catch up
BONUS RESOURCES: You'll also get
✔️ The Beat Stress & Thrive course for healthcare professionals. Learn neuroscience-based, proven techniques to help you manage your work, stay calm in high pressure environments, and enjoy life. Our flagship online resilience course gives you 6-8 hours of CPD.
✔️ Wellbeing QI toolkit. A practical toolkit to help you take care of your wellbeing - and meet QOF targets for GP practices.
✔️ The stressless dashboard ebook to teach you 8 ways to find calm and get more energy to deal with your busy world.
Transform your team today
Shapes Academy
- Beat Stress & Thrive course
- Wellbeing QI toolkit
- Stressless dashboard ebook
- FREE place at FrogFest Virtual Leadership Summit on 5 November 2024
Annual Subscription
£297
Membership includes
- 12 months access
- Immediate access to the Shapes Toolkit resource library
- Live monthly evening masterclass sessions (available on replay too)
- Brand new 3-5 minute "Shapes booster" video every month with a practical, relevant tool to apply
- Full Beat Stress & Thrive course - 6 x modules of video lessons plus workbooks
- Free download of The Stressless Dashboard ebook
For enquiries or or questions relating to the Shapes Academy, please visit the FAQ below or contact us.
100% no quibbles money back promise. If within 30 days you haven’t found any of the tools, resources, videos and webinars of any value, simple email us and we will refund 100% of your payment. No questions asked.
Try the Shapes Academy with zero risk with our 30-day 100% no quibbles money back guarantee.
TEAM MEMBERSHIP
Want to join with your organisation?
Team membership is an affordable way for healthcare trusts to buy their teams leadership training.
Please contact us to find out how the resources will benefit your organisation, and find out about bulk membership options.
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AS A SHAPES ACADEMY MEMBER,
Here's what's available each month...
(and of course, all the resources, videos and masterclass replays will be available in the online resources centre so you can catch up at any time if you miss them - we know you're busy people!)
WEEK ONE
Get your bitesize Shapes Booster Video delivered to your inbox (5min max!) Watch, reflect on the concept, and start trying it our in your day-to-day interactions.
WEEK TWO
Dive deeper with the Core Content Module for that month’s Shape. Watch a 15 minute video and complete the accompanying worksheet.
WEEK THREE
Join the live 90 minute Masterclass to put what you’ve learned into practice. Enjoy peer support, time to reflect, and ideas on how to use the Shape to tackle your current challenges.
WEEK FOUR
Bring the bitesize resources (video & slides) to your team meeting to empower your colleagues to work happier. You can choose the 20 or 40 minute option (with the 5 minute activity as backup in case things don’t go to plan!)
... BUT I'VE GOT NO TIME!
“We get it. You barely have time to look after your basic bodily functions (hello, loo breaks) let alone work through an entire programme of resources.
If 90-minute masterclasses and 6 module courses sound overwhelming... relax. A little Shapes Academy goes a long way. Regular, bitesize content delivered every month means you can't "fall behind" or miss out.
Start by watching the 5-minute booster video we'll send you, via email, every month. These practical, watchable trainings introduce the key concepts in a way that's easy to apply straight away to your team - like a new lens through which to view the challenges that are coming up.
Over time, you'll find you're able to attend a msetrclass... watch some of the core content videos... maybe drop a quick question into the Whatsapp group.
The Shapes Toolkit is designed to build and grow with you over time. There are always new ways to apply the shapes, and everyhting you'll learn will build and connect to previous concepts.
This membership was designed with busy doctors and healtjcare professionals in mind. Start where you are - and you'll notice the difference sooner than you think.
"I use the tools and resources every day."
“Before I started the Shapes Academy I had 13 projects on the go and 10k emails in my inbox. I was stressed, anxious and not coping. I ended up needing to take some time off, and realised things needed to change. Now, I'm back at work and using the Shapes Toolkit I've transformed my approach. My role is still extremely high pressured. In fact I now have 29 projects on the go - but I actually feel in control! I still receive 50 emails in an hour but using the tools I can quickly assess what's important, what to prioritise, and what to let go. The 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
About us
The Shapes Academy was created by Dr Rachel Morris, founder of Wild Monday and a former GP with a background in Medical Education - who created the Shapes Toolkit to support leaders in healthcare who wanted to help their teams beat burnout and thrive at work - without taking on everything themselves.
The Shapes Academy is based on the Shapes Toolkit, a series of coaching and productivity tools which has helped hundreds of doctors, managers and other professionals take back control of their time and thrive.
Rachel is the founder of the Beat Stress & Thrive for doctors and healthcare professionals, and Permission to Thrive, the wellbeing membership for doctors.
She also hosts the popular ‘You Are Not A Frog’ podcast for doctors and other professionals in high stress jobs. A thought leader on resilience in the workplace, an executive and team coach, she’s a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators and taught for many years on the Faculty for the University of Cambridge. She regularly lectures around the country on leadership, resilience, combatting stress and thriving at work.
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