6
Years running
340+
Participants
4.7
Avg. rating / 5
28
Cohorts completed
What Participants Say
Zahra Aziz
Petaling Jaya · April 2025
"I attended the Notebook Workshop with some scepticism — I thought I already knew roughly why I overspent. What I did not expect was how different it felt to examine that through published research alongside other people. The journaling prompts were pointed without being intrusive. I left with more questions than when I arrived, which turned out to be the point."
Reflection Notebook Workshop
Raymond Lim
Bangsar · March 2025
"The Reading Group was exactly what I needed after years of reading personal finance content that always felt like it was selling me something. There is no agenda here — just texts, a good facilitator, and honest conversation. The session on mental accounting alone was worth the entire six weeks. I found myself thinking about it for days afterwards."
Behavioural Reading Group
Priya Nair
Kuala Lumpur · May 2025
"My husband and I both attended the Considered Spender Cohort in different intakes — we did not plan it that way, but looking back it made our household conversations much richer. There was a vocabulary we now share for discussing spending decisions that feels more useful than simply arguing about numbers."
The Considered Spender Cohort
Hafizah Yusof
Shah Alam · April 2025
"The thing that surprised me most about the Considered Spender programme was how much I gained from listening to other participants. Their observations about their own patterns illuminated things in mine that I had not noticed. The facilitator was very skilled at drawing these threads together without making it feel like group therapy."
The Considered Spender Cohort
Chin Wei Teng
Damansara · March 2025
"I was uncertain whether a six-week commitment would suit my schedule, but the evening format worked better than expected. The reading was manageable — the compilation is well-chosen and not dense — and the discussion sessions felt genuinely substantive. I would have preferred slightly longer sessions, but the 2.5-hour window kept things tight."
Behavioural Reading Group
Mohd Shafiq
Subang Jaya · May 2025
"I went into the weekend workshop expecting tips. What I got was something more useful — a way of noticing things I had been doing automatically for years. The concept of loss aversion came up in the first session and I suddenly understood a decision I had made six months ago that had been bothering me. It was a strange but genuinely clarifying experience."
Reflection Notebook Workshop
Participant Journeys
The Situation
A project manager in her mid-forties noticed she spent significantly more in the weeks following stressful work periods — always on things she did not particularly need. She had read various personal finance articles without finding a useful frame for what she was doing or why.
The Programme
She enrolled in the 10-week cohort. In weeks three and four, the group worked through research on decision fatigue and the role of purchasing as a form of agency restoration. The facilitator connected this to a broader body of work on compensatory consumption. The participant said this framing was the first that felt accurate to her experience.
What Changed
She did not stop the pattern entirely, but reported that naming it changed its character. By the end of the cohort she had developed a small weekly reflection habit — five minutes on Sundays — that she was still maintaining three months after the programme ended.
"The reading group format forced me to slow down in a way I had not managed alone. That slowness turned out to be the thing."
The Situation
A couple in their fifties found that spending around Hari Raya and Chinese New Year consistently created tension in the household — not because of disagreement on amounts, but because each party had different mental models for what the spending meant.
The Programme
Both attended separate intakes of the Reading Group within the same year. The session on mental accounting — and particularly the concept of money as a carrier of meaning rather than just a quantity — gave them a shared vocabulary to articulate what had previously felt like a conflict about values.
What Changed
They reported that conversations about festive spending shifted from negotiation to discussion after the programmes. The friction did not disappear, but its texture changed — it became easier to name what each person was actually concerned about.
"We had been arguing about money for years without realising we were using the same word to mean different things."
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Recognition
Malaysian Adult Education Society · 2023
Bangsar Professionals Network · 2024
Asia-Pacific Adult Education Consortium · since 2022
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