Day Crafting Foundation
Two online sessions. Two hours each. With two weeks of live practice in between. Plus Two Workbooks to support your ongoing journey.
Shape better days through regular practice. A craftsperson’s way to personal development.
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What if your day was your greatest untapped resource?
It's easy to overlook the day as a space to design wellbeing and flourishing. It's common to chase big goals, make long-term plans and imagine better futures, but what if the real leverage isn’t out there in the distance, it’s right here, in the shape of today? We postpone the good life when we should be crafting it here and now.
Despite our intentions, somehow we expect to feel busy, stretched, or otherwise misaligned. Our calendars are full, our energy is scattered and the whatever we plan, it's easy to end up languishing.
Day Crafting begins with a radical but quietly obvious proposition: a good day is the only place you have to stand. Shape the day well, and everything else – purpose, wellbeing, progress – becomes possible again.
The Day Crafting Foundation shows you how.
Keep living on autopilot… or take back the design
In a world that rewards urgency, it’s easy to let the day fill up. But here’s the cost:
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your attention gets fragmented
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your actions drift from your purpose
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your sense of meaning starts to hollow out
We don’t need to overhaul our lives or imagine big changes we just need to craft better days. The Day Crafting Foundations explains where to start.
Workbooks that accompany the Foundation
The Day Crafting Foundation is for people who are ready to move from default to design. Not with a massive life change, but with a different way of working with time, rhythm, and intention. The truth is: days don’t just happen to us. We shape them, whether we mean to or not.
This course shows you how to mean it.
The practice focuses on raising typical performance. Achievements come from daily steps rather than impossible climbs.
Skilled use of time and energy shapes each day, along with a deliberate focus on single-tasking and slow productivity.
Making meaningful progress daily, is the strongest motivator and most significant predictor of wellbeing and flourishing.
The good life is a daily practice; the journey, not a distant destination. It’s about skilfully adjusting each day, not waiting to arrive.
You will arrive having already begun your journey. You will need the Introductory and Body-clock Workbooks, before the course starts. These are designed to provide essential support, information, and exercises throughout, and beyond, the course.
Prior to the workshop, you’ll be encouraged to engage with the material to familiarise yourself with the Day Crafting process and identify areas in your daily routine that may not be serving you well. A quiet diagnostic found on page 16 of the Introductory Workbook will assist in uncovering useful insights.
Additionally, a preparation email will outline what you need to read before the course commences. This is not for the sake of preparation alone, just enough to begin the shift from autopilot to apprentice.
Important: You have the option to receive the workbooks included in your course fee or to purchase them directly from Amazon, (which might be cheaper and more convenient for you).
This is where the workshop opens. Expect slides, live exercises, breakout rooms, provocations, rituals and a safe space. You won't be forced to step out of your comfort zone (encouraged but not forced).
You'll sketch energy rhythms, explore habitual patterns, and test a few tools straight away. We use games, not lectures; minor rebellion against inherited systems, not compliance.
Hopefully you will have the odd aha moment or two.
You’ll meet the Elephant and Rider, confront the default settings of your day and begin reshaping them through small experiments. You’ll leave with a chosen practice and a time booked in your diary to begin.
The final ten minutes shift from informative to initiatory as we support each other over the practice fortnight – you're becoming a Day Crafter.This is the practice and learning phase. You’re given a menu of resources and interventions – some structured, some self-directed – and encouraged to try one small shift each day.
The key is experimentation. You’ll test what it feels like to set an intention in the morning and reflect in the evening. Or to use your strengths deliberately. Or to build a rest practice that isn’t just collapse.
It’s here that Day Crafting becomes personal. You start to see what works – not in theory, but in the real mess of your actual days.
We'll start by finding out how your craft and practice went and most importantly, what you learned from that. Whether you kept the practice or forgot it entirely, this is the moment to make sense of what that reveals.
From there, we go deeper into preparation, blueprints, and energy-aware design. You’ll map your own day, diagnose friction points, and draft new possibilities. The session ends not with a summary but a turning point: a practical decision about what kind of support, focus, or ritual might sustain your growth as a Day Crafter beyond the course.
Day Crafting workshops are warm, engaging and fun. They’re not lecture-based – they’re built around real life, real people and the messy beauty of everyday practice. The more of your actual questions and problems you bring, the more you will get out of it. We will be exploring our challenges, not abstract theories.
You’ll be introduced to a set of ideas and tools through stories, shared problems, short interventions and carefully designed experiments. It’s a space for discovery and insight.
Our facilitators are highly experienced – often with backgrounds in adult education, coaching, or behavioural design – but we approach this work as fellow practitioners, not experts at the front of the room. What matters is what you try, not what you know.
You’ll be invited to reflect, to share (if you wish) and to experiment with new ways of shaping your days. Expect to laugh, to be gently challenged, and to leave with a deeper sense of agency and possibility.
If you want to keep going, there are a few possible next steps. Some people continue with 1:1 sessions, or apply for the Day Crafting Apprenticeship. Some try the rest of the workbook series as self-study. There’s no pressure, but if you’ve felt the click, you can stay in touch or sign up for the newsletter.
A few Apprentices are taking their practice all the way and starting to lead their own Day Crafting Foundation courses and Apprenticeships in their own contexts and / or becoming 'associates' on this site. If you're interested in this pathway, get in contact and say hello.
The Day Crafting Foundation Blurb
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His approach changed my life dramatically. Just reading it has shifted something for me already! Bruce Stanley you are bloody brilliant.
Charlie Ewer, Apprenticeship
Day Crafting is a phenomenal way to take control of your calendar, reclaim your energy, assess why you do things, and make small shifts for a healthy balanced life. The Day Crafting Course helped me realign my day, realise my most productive times, optimise and safeguard my time from derailments, and go deeper into the why behind my bad habits. I think this is a course everyone needs!
Rev. Monica Childers, Apprenticeship
Day Crafting has changed my life improving my productivity and the balance of activities (work and pleasure) in my life. Using the analogy of craft work and apprenticeship you can learn a whole series of tools and techniques to intentionally craft good days one day at a time. You won't be disappointed.
Nick B, Workbook
I love to learn, I've done lots of courses, and this is the course I've spoken to more people about than anything in years. Day Crafting has given me tools to carve out time for peace and creativity which has meant I haven't felt overwhelmed. It's like a gift of time I wouldn't normally make time for.
Emma Major, Apprenticeship
Life changing! A really easy to use and interesting way to change how to live my life. The exercises are fun and thought provoking and really helped me to make changes right away, in that moment.
Miss E C C Ewer-Smith, Workbook
As a mum of 3 and running two small businesses I often find my days just fill up and I end up feeling overwhelmed. I made what feels a very radical step of scheduling in a 2 hour lunch break including a nap and a walk which has actually made me far more productive. Would definitely recommend.
Rosie Freeman, Apprenticeship
This book together with Day Crafting the Change Workbook changed the way I live my day. It helped me understand what motivates me and what hinders me, what are the most optimum times for me to do creative work and radically improved my self-care. Highly recommend.
Sarah Best, Workbook
The course could have been superficial and light-weight; instead it has proven to be substantial, thoroughly researched and challenging. Bruce is passionate about the subject and delivers the course with compassion and humour. The exercises have the potential to create not just quick fixes for fun, but real long term happiness.
Ian Gregory, Apprenticeship
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Day Crafting, but it has been more than I could have hoped for. I have so much to take away, and I already feel the impact of what I have been taught. I am learning to craft my days for good, not just for myself but so that I am a benefit to others.
Rev. Judith Holliman, Apprenticeship
The Day Crafting apprentice course is excellent. It has helped me create life-giving daily rhythms and confidence in how to best schedule my days for work, rest and play. The simple art of setting an intention for the day can lead into a day that feels more giving and constructive.
Matt Freer, Apprenticeship
Bruce's course is 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. I have plenty of material to reflect on for months to come.
Anna Macdonald, Apprenticeship
This final book in the Daycrafting series has helped me navigate a couple of relatively small changes very successfully. The principles apply to the much bigger picture of the whole of our life and its meaning and purpose. The book made me notice things that I do without thinking and then gave really practical steps to making the most of my strengths.
Discerning, Workbook
Fascinating, practical, captivating. I love the concept of Day Crafting, all the handbooks are clear, digestible and easy to use. Bloody brilliant.
Emily Denham, Workbook
I really enjoyed this book. Day crafting is a combination of inspirational thinking and achievable practical application of that thinking. This book won’t change your life, but it really can give you the tools to do so yourself.
Bryce Travers, Workbook
It's a manageable 101 pages packed with practical ideas, exercises, activities and tools for bringing a craftsperson's approach to your days. It turns time into intentionally designed periods in which to make meaningful progress rather than mindlessly reacting to demands on your time and energy. It's an excellent overview of the practice.
GP, Workbook
Follow Day Crafting for regular reels and explainers:
Imagine days where:
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You find some simple and easy tools to start rewiring your defaults.
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You finish the day with a sense of meaningful progress, not just output.
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You notice your energy rhythms and build around them.
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You feel more like yourself. (The version with calm agency – who laughs more).
The Day Crafting Foundation is designed to get you started. Not through overwhelm or forced transformation, but through a grounded, human-centred practice.
A simple workshop. A deep shift in how you meet the day.
Day Crafting gives you a handful of flexible tools: intentions, expectations, identity cues and daily reviews. It’s not a regimented method you follow, it’s a practice you craft by selected your own interventions to solve your requirements.
Across the two sessions, you’ll learn how to:
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Read the shape of your day with more insight.
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Design blueprints that support focus, rest, and identity.
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Work with attention as your most precious resource.
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Craft a cadence of daily practice that fits your real life.
The Foundation goes beyond a taster. It is two weeks and two sessions of carefully selected practices for people who are ready to build.
Start now
You only ever get one day at a time. Start with this one.
Join the next Day Crafting Foundation.
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Two live sessions over Zoom.
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Workbooks included or bought separately.
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Real-time practice, not passive learning.
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A supportive community of fellow Day Crafters.
Your day may seem small but it is the most important unit of a good life. This is where you begin ...
Shape better days through regular practice. A craftsperson’s way to personal development.
Starts Sep 30
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Shape better days through regular practice. A craftsperson’s way to personal development.
Starts Nov 4
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