ZERO word swap for allied health professionals in research

Allied Health professionals, if you are doing a higher degree by research or are researching as part of your job then join our ZERO word swap as a way to cut across the zero-writing inactivity that researchers fall into at some stage during their process: the inertia and impotence of research writing.

To join our ZERO word swap, focus on writing a research associated number of words that end with zero. It could be 10, 50, 100, 500 or even one thousand. A standard paragraph is 250 words. Writing a paragraph a week is better than writing nothing. Writing 10 words a day is also better than nothing (but it won't get your research completed quickly).

On a Thursday, join our online peer support group for allied health professionals in research. Meet us and decide who you would like to share your ZERO word swap with.

On a Sunday send your words to a member of our peer support group. We are each other's accountability partners.  Through our own experience as researchers, we know that writing even a tiny bit leads to writing more - you just need a push to get past the 15-minute marker of zero writing to experience a dopamine kick that leads to breaking the inertia.

So, join us in our ZERO word swap. Today is our first swap meet and I've already received 1000 words from one of our members. He has written on Environmental Sociology. What will you write on? Who will you choose to send it to? Meet us on Thursday to decide. Or meet to discuss your research without playing our ZERO word swap.

Alternatively, if you want more than our weekly peer support, or a top up to what we offer once a week, I thoroughly recommend a support group that the three founding members of this Allied Health Research Peer Support group belong to: Complete Thesis Support. They offer continual expert support and supervision throughout the week. I love and use them regularly on top of my university supervision and have become an ambassador for them. I've just delivered a Presentation Skills expert talk for them. It attracted approximately 80 registrations from across the globe. Don't tell the principal, Dr Izelle Laubuschange, but I had an absolute ball. 

See you at our Thursday peer support zooms or inside Complete Thesis Support.

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss. Mental Health Social Worker. PhD candidate: the psychoeducation and bibliotherapy of Brene Brown.