UPCOMING EVENTS

Stressed to Success

18th October 2023 6pm-7pm (UK Time), 1pm-2pm (EST), 10am-11am (PST)

In this FREE Masterclass, The Stress Coach, Jordan Friedman and Chartered Coaching Psychologist, Dr Natalie Lancer will help you chill and achieve more.

Jordan will teach you these stress and anxiety reducers:

• Stress Breakdown, a vital strategy for making your tasks less anxiety producing and easier to complete.
• Quick Calm, a breathing exercise to clear the way for more focused and productive workflows.
• Stress GPS, tools that make reaching goals smoother, healthier and more successful.
• Sleep Enhancers that make this critical stress reducer more effective.

Natalie will teach you how to:

• Minimise tension so you can put more energy into your goals.
• Clear your mental pathway to make doing the work easier and faster.
• Turn anxiety into attention and intentional action.
• Make your leisure time more enjoyable and strengthen relationships.

This Masterclass is for students, professionals, coaches and others who can benefit from concrete strategies to help themselves and others.

Brain Fuel Writing Retreat

27^th-30^th November 2023, near Eastbourne, UK

The serenity of the sea, the scintillating company, and the seduction of THREE home-cooked meals a day – yes, the Brain Fuel retreat is the perfect place to empty your head of everything but your writing.

I am holding another ‘Brain Fuel’ retreat, primarily for doctoral students but also for Master’s students, book writers and established academics – a blissful, productive, four-day creative, structured, IN-PERSON retreat at Florence House in Seaford.

I help delegates set goals for the day, I lead group coaching creativity exercises, and I give a one-to-one coaching session to each delegate. On the first two evenings, there are evening workshops encouraging big-picture thinking on your academic work or book.

By the end of the retreat, you will achieve clarity on your topics and arguments, you will build an extreme amount of momentum and you will have taken strides in your writing. It’s a productive, immersive, and energising experience.

Each delegate will get:

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Four days of an intensive and productive writing environment
                              • Fast-tracking techniques to get your ideas on paper through daily writing exercises
                              • Additional one-to-one sessions from me, an award-winning Chartered Psychologist to burst through any obstacles or limiting beliefs
                              • Undivided attention and support for four days in an intimate group setting
                              • A motivating environment, surrounded by like-minded individuals to get your creative juices flowing
                              • Ample designated, focussed writing time without any external distractions
                              • Beautiful surroundings in which to have breaks
                              • Lovely food to sustain you! All dietary requirements are catered for.

 

Price: £699 – Early Bird Price

Price increases to £875 on 29th September 2023

Email [email protected] to book.

Past Events……

Mega Study Hub

24th-26th January 2023

The Mega Study Hub is a 3 day creative, structured online writing retreat. Natalie will help you set goals for the day, lead group coaching creativity exercises, and coach you in a one-to-one session.

On the first two evenings, we welcome Nazia Fitzpatrick who will lead the following interactive workshops:

1. One size fits one – Building your own Psychological Capital to help you get through your PhD

Covering how to cultivate hope, willpower, efficacy, self-belief, resilience and optimism.

2. Shape your tomorrow today: Craft the future you want

Covering how to use your strengths, values and aspirations in creating jobs you want through relationship and purpose crafting

By the end of the retreat, you’ll have clarity on your topics and arguments, build an extreme amount of momentum and write or research a chapter of their thesis. It’s a productive, immersive and energising experience.

On a Mega Study Hub you’ll get:

* Three days of an intensive and productive writing environment

* Fast-tracking techniques to get your ideas on paper through daily writing exercises

* Additional one-to-one sessions from Natalie, an award-winning Chartered Psychologist to burst through any obstacles or limiting beliefs

* Undivided attention and support for three days in an intimate group setting

* A motivating environment, surround by like-minded individuals to get your creative juices flowing

* Ample focussed writing time without any external distractions

The Mega Study Hub takes place on Tuesday 24th to Thursday 26th January. It runs 9am -3.30pm on each day, with evening workshops from 6-8pm.

Grab early bird access for £175 up until 2nd December here

July 2022

When: 11th-14th July 2022

Where:  A 4* hotel near Stratford Upon Avon.

Price: £645

What: Writing retreat for Doctoral and Master’s students led by Dr Natalie Lancer (a.k.a The Uni Coach)

Join our small group in Stratford-Upon-Avon to empty your head of everything but your academic work for a four day creative, structured, in person writing retreat.

Natalie helps delegates set goals for the day, leads group coaching creativity exercises, and gives a one-to-one coaching session to each delegate. On the first two evenings, there are evening workshops encouraging big picture thinking on your academic work or book.

By the end of the retreat, you will achieve clarity on your topics and arguments, you will build an extreme amount of momentum and you will have taken strides in your writing. It’s a productive, immersive and energising experience.

Each delegate will get:

• Four days of an intensive and productive writing environment
• Fast-tracking techniques to get your ideas on paper though daily writing exercises
• A one-to-one coaching session from Natalie Lancer, an award-winning Chartered Coaching Psychologist to burst through any obstacles or limiting beliefs
• Undivided attention and support for four days in an intimate group setting
• A motivating environment, surrounded by like-minded individuals to get your creative juices flowing
• Ample designated, focussed writing time without any external distractions
• Beautiful surrounding in which to have breaks
• Lovely food to sustain you! All dietary requirements are catered for.

To reserve your place or to ask any questions, please email [email protected]

April 2022

With Dr Natalie Lancer

SOLD OUT!

If you would like to know dates for the next retreat please email [email protected]

On April 11^th -14^th 2022 we are holding our first in person Brain Fuel Writing Retreat in a secluded retreat house outside Newcastle.

 

Natalie has been there many times and each time got loads of work done.

 

If you have been to a Mega Study Hub then it will be similar but IN PERSON!!!

 

Lots of creative and motivational exercises, plenty of time to write in a group, one to one coaching, lots of delicious food, beautiful Northumberland walks and you will be in the company of 18 ideas people – mostly PhD students and a few writers and thought leaders who need the space and time to think.

 

Places are strictly limited to 18 people. To book please email [email protected]

 

Price is £550.

 

Please note you will have to arrange your own transport to Newcastle Station and then a taxi to the Retreat House. You are welcome to drive as there is plenty of parking.

 

All dietary requirements are catered for.

 

Schedule

 

Monday 11^th April 2022

Arrive by 3pm for welcome tea and cake. Check in to rooms at 4pm. Start our creativity and motivational exercises and writing at 430pm.

Dinner 6pm. Evening workshop given by Natalie.

 

Tuesday 12^th April 2022

Breakfast, Lunch, Tea, Dinner, study sprints, walk after lunch, one to one coaching, creative and motivational exercises, evening talk given by Natalie.

 

Wednesday 13^th April 2022

Breakfast, Lunch, Tea, Dinner, study sprints, walk after lunch, one to one coaching, creative and motivational exercises, evening workshop given by Natalie.

 

Thursday 14^th April 2022

Breakfast, study sprints, creative and motivational exercises, Lunch at 12.30

End of retreat 1.30pm

 

 

Cancellation policy

If you need to cancel, you will be offered a place at the next online Mega and usual Study Hubs.

 

If you have any questions please email [email protected]

With Professor Rowena Murray and Dr Natalie Lancer

Are you a Doctoral or Master’s student who:

• Feels they don’t write enough?
• Is not confident about what they are writing?
• Is spiralling out of control?

If so, come and hear Professor Rowena Murray and Dr Natalie Lancer discuss ‘Rhetoric and Smart self-care for Thesis writers’.

Natalie Lancer

Uni Coach

Rowena Murray

Anchorage Educational Services

Session 1:

Comply/Defy – Unpacking the problematic PhD context

 

Thursday January 13th 2022, 1.30-2.30pm

 

In the first session, ‘Comply/defy’ we interrogate the invisible conventions and realise the inherent tensions in the PhD programme. For example, we do have to comply with norms and forms in order to remain on the programme, but we need to interrogate and tease apart how this infrastructure affects our writing. After all, our context affects how we behave, think and feel.

Understanding and questioning the power structure enables us to navigate the dominant norms and forms YOUR way, making it work for you.

We share our empowering vocabulary, and impart a framework based on rhetoric and self-care to help you work through the barriers to high stakes academic writing.

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Session 2:

Is it me? – Strategies and Takeaways

 

Tuesday January 25th 2022, 1.30pm-2.30pm

 

In this second session, ‘Is it me?’, we discuss how as individuals and in groups we can change how we address the barriers of high stakes academic writing, discussed in the first session.

We introduce some psychological and rhetorical concepts which you can implement straight away:

• locus of control
• getting agency into writing
• managing uncertainty, anxiety and imposter syndrome
• viewing the PhD as a growth experience
• structures of persuasive strategies in academic writing
• navigating the power dynamic with your supervisor
• putting yourself in safe, writing groups
• leveraging intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
• being intentional with your time and your writing strategies
• autonomy, goal setting and self-efficacy

I am running a programme which will equip you to have conversations with your delegates that enable them to think creatively about what it is that they are doing. I have skills, models, tools and exercises to impart, which you can take, adapt and use in your own contexts.

Upcoming dates:

Tuesday 4^th May 2021, 7.30-9.30pm
Tuesday 11^th May 2021, 7.30-9.30pm
Tuesday 18^th May 2021, 7.30-9.30pm
Tuesday 25^th May 2021, 7.30-9.30pm
Tuesday 1^st June 2021, 7.30-9.30pm
Tuesday 8^th June 2021, 7.30-9.30pm
Tuesday 15^th June 2021, 7.30-9.30pm
Tuesday 22^nd June 2021, 7.30-9.30pm
Tuesday 29^th June 2021, 7.30-9.30pm
Tuesday 6^th July 2021, 7.30-9.30pm