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The Day Crafting Apprenticeship

Applications are now open for new Day Crafting 1:1 Apprenticeships

Day Crafting Apprenticeships for Individuals

We'll work towards a design of days tailored to your needs, crafted to align with your purpose and deliberately shaped to bring energy and meaning to each day. Day Crafting helps you move beyond overwhelm and daily busyness and gives you the tools to reshape your time, rediscover your focus, and enjoy a more fulfilling life through daily meaningful progress.

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The Day Crafting Apprenticeship offers a personalised journey, where each session is designed around you. Unlike the group course, where time is shared and material may be more general, the 1:1 approach focuses solely on your specific challenges and objectives. A 1:1 Apprenticeship allows you to work at your own pace, adapting the material and focus as your circumstances change, ensuring that you get the most out of the experience without added stress

Whether you want to find more joy in your routine, navigate a challenging period, or craft days that leave you feeling energised rather than depleted, the Day Crafting Apprenticeship will meet you where you are. It offers the focused attention that only a personalised approach can bring, helping you to make each day one you are proud of.

Here is what recent apprentices from the UK, USA and Canada have said about Day Crafting.

  • Day Crafting is a phenomenal way to take control of your calendar, reclaim your energy each day, assess why you do the things you do, and make small shifts in your daily life that bring forth healthy balanced living.
  • I wasn't sure what to expect from Day Crafting, but it has been more than I could have hoped for.
  • This has really helped me refocus my days. I gave myself lots of pats on the head for following my intuition to come on this course. It's just what I needed.
  • I have found day crafting unbelievably helpful - it has given me tools to carve out time for peace and creativity, allowing me to feel purposeful without overwhelm, something I would never have thought possible.
  • As a mum of 3, running two small businesses, I often find my days filling up, and I end up feeling overwhelmed and having little time for what I would actually like to be doing. Taking some time out to better understand myself and how to craft my days has been really helpful.
  • Bruce offers a goldmine of wisdom, experience and practical tools to help craft your days. Living a more intentional life, not a busier life, was my goal when I joined the course, and Bruce offered so much useful information to help me achieve this.

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Take the first step towards crafting days that are deliberate, fulfilling, and uniquely yours. This is an opportunity for those ready to commit to meaningful change and want to own a new perspective and mindset.

Details

To Consider Before Applying

This Apprenticeship is not for everyone. It is for those ready to invest time and energy into their personal development. You will need to bring commitment and a willingness to step out of your comfort zone. This is not the right fit if you are looking for an easy fix or just some interesting theory – the practice between the sessions is where the results come from. But if you are serious about transforming your daily life, this Apprenticeship will give you the tools and guidance you need. The Apprenticeship gets you started with the practice, which you can continue to develop with the included resources, through MAPS or with further sessions if you choose.

How can you benefit from
1:1 guidance?

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Getting expert input and perspective is hugely valuable if you're serious about learning any craft. A good conversation feels like you're getting unstuck, and you see possibilities you couldn't before – you should discover a simpler path forward.

I talk a lot about doing what you're ready for but that isn't always easy to see yourself. A good guide won't tell you what to do but will help you see the path for yourself and challenge any barriers you may have put in your way. Often, you'll hear what you already know; doubts will go. Daily practice will become refocused.

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Sessions usually end with you feeling lighter and more motivated. Your sense of confidence and self-belief can be strengthened just by being listened to properly. The quality of your craftwork improves as you shift from forced effort to skilful practice. When you design and craft better days, you have better outcomes.

An alternative methodology

Day Crafting differs from the typical territory of coaching (hoping for big changes and defining ambitious goals). For many people, this framework doesn't work. A lot of goal- and plan-based coaching is counterproductive. It can lower your chances of 'winning', postpone happiness, bring about only momentary changes, and trigger an end to the practice that made the difference if you win

 The evidence that persuades me says that what motivates adults to develop is a creative, problem-oriented perspective where experiments can be tried immediately and where change is cumulative and every day contains balance and flourishing.

We can either dream dreams we'll never arrive at because we de-emphasise the practice required – or accept that the behavioural, here-and-now is where we live and reorientate ourselves to crafting when matters most – now, today.

The system of practice is what makes the difference.

It holds greater power and possibility than a goal or a plan.

This is simple and effective but not easy; it is the craftsperson's journey of daily practice. Day Crafting is designed for the workshop of our lives. It turns skills development into steps the apprentice selects when ready – it is much better suited than most coaching models to support effective learning and growth. Becoming a (behavioural) Day Crafter can be freeing, empowering and energising if you've found that alternative (future achievement) methods don't work for you.

If you're a coach or work in personal development and want to find out about guiding apprentices using Day Crafting, enquire below.

My Role

  • I work as a guide or catalyst not as a teacher or instructor.
  • I am accompanying you on YOUR journey, I don't choose the path.
  • I'll help you work out what you're ready for next.
  • My emphasis will be on helping you construct an effective system of practice.

My experience ...

... comes from 20+ years of coaching, facilitation, adult education and behavioural change product development. I'm qualified as a counsellor, coach and as a teacher of adults in further and higher education. I have thousands of hours of individual and group work exploring personal development, creativity, innovation, leadership and positive psychology.

But Day Crafting is new. As you'll read elsewhere on this site, it is my response to the challenge of providing a better personal development path – and of course it draws on alternative practices of the craftsperson's journey and rule of life – both of which have a long pedigree.

What is an experienced Day Crafter like after practice and guidance?

Day Crafting settles into a constantly evolving practice of working with what is, not starting from scratch. The dynamic work of Day Crafting is a matter of course corrections and improvements to a vessel that has already set sail. It is not about future goals and delayed achievements but small wins and meaningful progress that builds towards extraordinary objectives. The day is enjoyed for its own merits and this is what adds up to the good life

As skills develop, so does our capacity to repeat practices with less effort. With greater skill, less effort achieves more. The system holds great power and possibility.

“Confront the difficult when it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts.” Tao Te Ching.

“The future depends on what you do today.” Mahatma Gandhi

Living your days well, living them skilfully, rewards you with a sense of pride and strengthens a positive identity. Every day that you make meaningful progress begins to feel energising, empowering and freeing. What about today?

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