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Calm productivity
Calm productivity for academics is about making progress on meaningful, high-value projects without feeling stressed, distracted, and burned out. Head space helps you create a sustainable workflow without sacrificing your ability to do great work.
Academic productivity
Academic productivity is typically associated with constant pressure to publish, teach, serve on committees, and juggle many other responsibilities. The publish or perish mindset can breed anxiety, burnout, and an inability to focus on your most meaningful work. What if there was another way – a path to being highly productive on the projects that really matter, without the frenzy and stress?
The Head space programme is aimed at academics who want to be productive – or maybe even are productive – but who also believe that their current working practices are unsustainable. The Head space courses provide a framework for building deliberate practices around calm productivity for academics.
Head space courses
For busy academics who are stressed, under pressure, and working extended hours just to get through a normal workload.
Explore diverse topics covering a range of core activities for academics.
Implement workflows for sustainable approaches to academic work.
Create high-value, meaningful work without sacrificing your personal life.
What is calm productivity?
Calm productivity for academics is about making progress on your highest-impact work while maintaining a sense of balance and presence. It moves from reactive busyness towards intentional workflow habits that allow you to show up as your best self.
At its core, calm productivity recognises that your greatest contributions happen when you can carve out periods of focused, energised work – not when you are simply putting in more hours or multitasking yourself into oblivion. It’s about working smarter, not harder.
Some key principles include:
- Identifying your priorities and highest-leverage projects. What work will create the most value and impact?
- Time-blocking productive periods in your calendar to make consistent progress.
- Building in rejuvenation periods to restore your energy and motivation.
- Developing a mindset of patience and trust in deep, focused work sessions.
- Creating distraction-free zones for your most important tasks.
Consistently show up for your highest priorities each week while avoiding the burnout and reactivity that so often plagues academics. Make meaningful contributions to your field, students, and society – but with a sustainable rhythm that preserves your wellbeing.
For a calmer and more intentional path amid the pressure of academic life, start building habits around calm productivity. Your dearest work is waiting for you to show up with your best energy, focus and care.