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PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCES

What participants say after reading with us.

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4 yrs

Running sessions in KL

280+

Participants to date

4.7

Average session rating

88%

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PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK

Selected responses from recent cohorts.

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Sharifah Rania

Environmental journalist, KL

I'd been using terms like "Scope 3" and "TCFD-aligned" in my writing for two years without being entirely sure what they meant in practice. The Vocabulary Workshop was the most useful two evenings I've spent — it didn't try to give me an opinion about anything, just the vocabulary. That's exactly what I needed.

April 2026 · Vocabulary Workshop

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Chen Wei Liang

Accountant, Petaling Jaya

I joined the Reading Group expecting something like a short course. It's quite different — slower, more focused on understanding what a paragraph actually says than on covering ground quickly. I appreciated that. By week four I was reading sections of Bursa disclosure documents on my own without needing to look everything up.

March 2026 · Reading Group

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Nurul Basyirah

Policy researcher, Putrajaya

The Annual Track has changed how I read these documents at work. I'm now on my second year. What I value most is that the sessions are never about telling us what to think — they're about understanding what a text says. That distinction matters a lot to me professionally.

April 2026 · Annual Reading Track

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Ahmad Mukhriz

Graduate student, UM

I was initially uncertain whether the Reading Group would be too basic for my level. It wasn't. The other participants came from completely different fields, and the range of questions that emerged was far more useful than reading on my own would have been. I've recommended it to two colleagues already.

February 2026 · Reading Group

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Priya Krishnan

Corporate communications, KL

My company sends out sustainability reports every year and I help draft parts of them. Attending the Vocabulary Workshop gave me a much clearer sense of where our language actually comes from and what the frameworks behind it require. Small group, good discussion. The evening format worked well for our team.

March 2026 · Vocabulary Workshop

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Lim Hui Shan

Secondary school teacher, Subang

I don't have a finance background at all. I attended the workshop because I kept seeing this vocabulary in the news and couldn't follow the discussions properly. Two evenings was enough to shift that considerably. The facilitator was patient and never made the vocabulary feel intimidating.

April 2026 · Vocabulary Workshop

CASE STUDIES

How participants used these sessions in practice.

CASE STUDY 01 · ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM

The challenge

A KL-based journalist covering environmental policy was assigned to write about Bursa Malaysia's enhanced sustainability reporting requirements. The primary documents referenced frameworks (GRI, TCFD, ISSB) she had never read in their original form — only in secondary summaries.

The approach

She attended the Vocabulary Workshop, then enrolled in the six-week Reading Group. Sessions covered GRI Standards vocabulary, TCFD's four-pillar structure, and how Bursa's requirements draw on these frameworks. Between sessions, she applied what she was reading to the specific documents she was reporting on.

The outcome

Over the six-week group, she moved from secondary summaries to reading primary documents directly for her reporting. She noted that three follow-up articles in her publication drew on her own reading of Bursa disclosures rather than on press releases or analyst summaries.

"The single most useful thing was understanding what a footnote in a TCFD disclosure actually refers to. Once I could follow those, the documents opened up."

CASE STUDY 02 · CORPORATE TEAM ENROLMENT

The challenge

A communications team at a mid-sized Malaysian company was drafting the sustainability section of their annual report for the first time. Team members could write clearly but had limited familiarity with the specific vocabulary and structure these sections typically use.

The approach

Five staff members attended the same Vocabulary Workshop cohort. The session focused partly on the vocabulary found in existing Bursa-listed company sustainability sections, reading sample passages as a group. The team coordinator used Plaintext's invoicing option for the five enrolments.

The outcome

The team reported that the shared vocabulary session reduced internal confusion over terminology during their drafting process. Two team members subsequently enrolled in the Reading Group independently to build further comprehension.

"We were all using terms slightly differently in our drafts. The workshop gave us a shared reference point."

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ADDRESS

Jalan Telawi Lima 24
59100 Kuala Lumpur

HOURS

Mon–Fri 10:00–18:00
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