The Thriving Doctor Book Club (TD Book Club) meets twice every month (excluding December and January) on the first Wednesday of the month Australian and New Zealand time. In the US and Canada this is Tuesday evening.

The Thriving Doctor Book Club welcomes medical doctors only, from around the globe.*

It is designed as a safe space for conversation about what works, what might work and what’s important in your work as a doctor.

It uses books, articles, films, videos, podcasts to stimulate conversation and thinking. Members gain knowledge of each other through these discussions creating community and a network by their own design as they learn.

Sometimes we will also invite a special guest to tell us about their work where it is relevant to the community.

The intention of these gatherings is to widen your field of vision, to build hope, engender new ways of thinking and working and to inspire you beyond the well known problems and risks of working as a doctor in healthcare. It is also designed for you to learn about each other, to facilitate your knowledge and your connections.

The Thriving Doctor Book Club is NOT a political organisation or a complaints body. It is not your HR department or a dispute resolution vehicle. Nor is it therapy, though there is often a therapeutic impact being in a safe space and in community with others who care about the things you care about.

The Book Club is also an advertising free space. This is NOT a place for your to promote your program or to recruit clients. As we build the directory of members we will be happy to include your website and contact details so that people can find you and your work easily for further contact outside the book club conversations.

While we hope the book club might offer you a salve or antidote to the challenges of working in medicine we can not offer you any individual guarantee of this.

The Thriving Doctor Book Club is owned, created and hosted by Coaching for Doctors.

The Founder of Coaching for Doctors is Sharee Johnson, Psychologist Coach and Author of the book by the same name, The Thriving Doctor – How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working in medicine.

Sharee will host the TD Book Club. In the event that she is not available her nominee – another member of the book club will host the gatherings. There are doctors from a range of countries in the community who have agreed to be Conversation Partners, they will support Sharee in delivering TD Book Club gatherings.

Please remain present to our membership rules of engagement
1.     Respect is our foundation and is expected at all times during these conversations and in reference to these conversations.
2.     Members can access the recordings of these discussions which are provided to support your learning and reflection and are for your use only. Sharing the actual recordings of these conversations will be considered a breach of confidentiality and copyright.
3.     Members who share their experiences will be afforded confidentiality at all times. Please remember it is not your story to share.
4.     This group is not a therapy group or a coaching group. We are in an open dialogue in the spirit of sharing and learning, testing ideas and exploring the previously unknown in service of better wellbeing for doctors and a more sustainable healthcare system.
5.     The Thriving Doctor Book Club is an advertising free zone. This is NOT an opportunity to market your services or any service you are associated with. Normal disclosure principles apply. You are welcome and we encourage you to grow your connections from this group off line and will help you connect outside of the Book Club if it is agreeable to both parties, please do not look to create these promotion activities during the book club discussions.
6.     Coaching for Doctors reserves the right to edit any breaches of this membership agreement out of the recordings and to stop access to the group if a member is not able to maintain this agreement.

7.     Our coaches and doctor facilitators comply with all reporting obligations and ethical guidelines in Victoria as stated by Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, the Australian Psychological Society and the International Coaching Federation.  Continued Membership of The Thriving Doctor Book Club requires adherence to professional obligations and ethical guidelines of your respective regulatory and professional bodies in your country of practice.

TD Book Club will meet for 75 minutes x 2 eight months of the year, (excluding Dec & Jan, July & Aug) in an endeavour to meet all international timelines. Dates are listed above.

Members can attend as many or as few of the 16 conversations per calendar year as they like. All conversations will be recorded and will be available to members only for two months following the discussion.

Medical Doctors from around the world can join TD Book Club. *

Membership is a monthly subscription. 

Members can join here and are welcome when they agree to the community rules of engagement.

Coaching for Doctors will monitor the chat and reserves the right to delete comments that are not in alignment with the rules of engagement. And to revoke membership without refund of any member unable to maintain their agreement.

 $27 AUD per month. This fee includes GST for Australian residents. International members pay the equivalent minus 10% GST.

Fees are paid via credit card automatically converting your currency to Australian Dollars. All prices are in Australian Dollars. GST will be added to all Australian Registrations. There is no tax added for non-Australian registrants.

We do not expect that you will attend all TD Book Club gatherings. As it is designed to be an international community some of them will happen when you are asleep or at work!

All conversations will be recorded and hosted in our Coaching for Doctors portal which you as a member can access on any device including your phone as an App. We will endeavour to provide links and so on as they are shared in the conversations alongside the recordings.

TD Book Club is only useful if people show up and have a conversation. This is an interactive community, we value your voice, thoughts and emotions, and look forward to you being with us live as often as you can be.

You will have access to the recorded conversations for 2 months after they happen as long as you remain a member of the bookclub. They will be uploaded within 48 hours of the live conversation onto our portal.

We are using books, podcasts and other materials to stimulate, inspire and challenge us personally and in conversation. They are not another obligation to load yourself up with. We understand that life is hectic and sometimes we don’t get things finished or meet our own intentions and expectations. Sometimes you will have read/watched/listened to the relevant text or material and sometimes you might come to learn, to help you decide how to spend your time.

As an adult learner you will make your own decision about what you read etc. You will gain more from being in TD Book Club if you have looked at the material and then engage in the conversation. We recommend that you expect to meet that goal about half the time and that you plan to attend the live conversations sometimes, then see how you go. Please do not create a story of shame or regret out of this opportunity. We recommend you bring your presence, curiosity, good will and humanity for 75 minutes on a regular basis and let the rest take care of itself.

Many Colleges will accept the hours you invest in reading and the like as part of your attention to wellbeing, personal development and/or improving your interpersonal skills, especially if you have identified these needs/goals in your learning plan.

We are continually seeking CPD approvals from professional and regulating medical bodies for our courses but will not be doing so at this stage for TD Book Club. Please make your own enquiries of the relevant body.

Each book club gathering will be for 75 minutes.

No, accessing the books, podcasts and other materials is your responsibility. Where we are listening or watching something online that is freely available, we will send you the link a month in advance.

The namesake book of this community is Sharee’s book The Thriving Doctor – How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working in medicine, and it  can be purchased here.

For now members of TD Book Club need to be a current Medical Student or have graduated from medical school. As a doctor you can be working in any clinical medical specialty, in public health or in a governance role.

If non-doctors are curious about what we are reading we produce a list at the end of each calendar year that they can download using the link above. They might also like to read The Thriving Doctor - How to be more balance and fulfilled, working in medicine, which includes many applicable skills and strategies for adults interested in self care, developing their intra and interpersonal skills and the role of coaching. Many non-doctors have told us they have found the book very useful.

No the TD Book Club has international membership. These conversations are relevant to healthcare no matter what model of care you work in. Learning about other models can be a source of inspiration and can even generate gratitude!

The TD Book Club is open for you to join any time. Your membership is a monthly subscription that you can cancel any time.

We want you to be satisfied with your purchase and to feel encouraged to contribute to this international community who are seeking to improve healthcare for all.

We offer a full refund for the first month if you believe the community is of unacceptable quality or does not match the description provided.  Refunds will not be made due to non attendance, a change of mind or similar. Your request for a refund must be in writing. Please also refer to the general Terms and Conditions on our website www.coachingfordoctors.net.au

All refunds are discretionary as determined by Sharee Johnson or her representative at Coaching for Doctors ABN 57 466 748 967

We may revise and update Terms of Use or Refund Policy from time to time at our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them on the Coaching for Doctors website.