Start learning the moment you enroll.

As soon as you join PhDJ, you'll receive lifetime access to DJ Essentials, our comprehensive online course covering the technical foundations of DJing.

Move through the lessons at your own pace and get ready to hit the ground running when Skills Bootcamp begins.

This is the foundation for everything that follows in PhDJ, ensuring everyone enters the program with the same core technical understanding—regardless of where they're starting.

We start September 15

Bridge the gap between learning and doing.

Bootcamp is an intensive month of guided learning + practice focused 100% on technical skills.

This is where students begin mixing regularly, receive their first rounds of feedback, and build the confidence they'll carry into the core curriculum.

Through live coaching, assignments, and feedback, you’ll learn the essential skills every DJ needs and start integrating it into assignments + live mixes.

You will:

• Navigate your DJ software + hardware

• Learn the essentials of mixing

• Troubleshoot common technical challenges

• Understand song structure and phrasing

• Play with looping, EQs and FX

• Record, upload and share your mixes

• Source, import and begin organizing your music

• Understand the basics of building a cohesive set

• Build momentum before the core program begins

Learn the principles behind life-changing dance floors.

Discover the frameworks that shape powerful musical experiences—from storytelling and narrative techniques to the structurethat moves people emotionally, physically and collectively.

You'll learn to:

• Build sets that take people on a journey

• Use storytelling as a tool for musical progression

• Understand the SCORE framework

• Create intentional containers for transformation

• Connect your personal story to your artistic voice

November 4 - 9 @ Menla Mountain Retreat in Phoenicia, NY

Go beyond the theory and experience the magic.

Our four-day, in-person Immersion is where everything you've been learning comes to life. Together, we'll explore what happens when we put the principles of PhDJ into practice—strengthening our creativity, leadership, connection, movement, and play in a fully embodied environment.

This is an opportunity to meet your colleagues and experience firsthand why and how this work transforms people.

You’ll deepen your connection to yourself, your fellow PhDJs, and confidence as both a DJ and a leader.

During Immersion, you'll:

• Experience the PhDJ curriculum in a fully embodied, experiential setting

• Deepen your leadership through music, movement, and facilitation

• Strengthen your confidence through shared practice and feedback

• Build lasting relationships with your cohort and teaching team

• Celebrate your growth and prepare for the next stage of your journey

What's included?

The Immersion experience itself is included in your tuition. Room, board, and travel are booked separately through our retreat venue.

If you're unable to attend in person, you'll receive recordings of the DJ sets and talkback sessions so you can continue learning remotely.

Learn how music shifts human physiology — and why that's the foundation of every extraordinary dance floor.

Explore how the nervous system shapes literally everything. Learn how to create environments where people feel safe enough to let go, connect and fully express themselves.

You'll learn to:

• Read the emotional signature of a room and know where to go next

• Understand how music affects the body and brain

• Create safety through your facilitation

• Develop your embodied self awareness

• Use music to support emotional release and connection

Lead with confidence, integrity, and presence.

Develop the leadership skills that allow you to guide a room without force. Learn how to command attention, navigate power responsibly, and transform performance anxiety into creative energy.

You'll learn to:

• Hold space with confidence

• Work skillfully with power dynamics

• Build presence on stage

• Protect your energy

• Lead from service rather than ego

Understand how ritual transforms music into something people carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Explore the history and practice of ritual, altered states and transformational experiences—and learn how these timeless principles can inform modern dance floors.

You'll learn to:

• Design intentional experiences that go deep

• Integrate the foundations of ritual in nightclubs, festivals + beyond

• How to use fear as the gateway to your superpowers 

• How to go beyond the person you thought you were to become the one you came here to be

  • & hold space for others to do the same

Build a brand that sounds like you.

Clarify your artistic identity, communicate your vision, and develop the skills to share your work with the people who need it most.

You'll learn to:

• Develop your unique sound

• Clarify your personal brand

• Communicate your work authentically

• Write compelling marketing copy

• Build confidence sharing your art

Learn the principles of community building and cultivate a thriving dance community that lasts.

• Develop a vision that inspires people to return again and again.

• Move from dance enthusiast to event producer and community leader.

• Build meaningful relationships, book gigs, and grow your network.

• Create sustainable income through your craft—and cultivate a joyful relationship with being paid.

Turn everything you've learned into your own way of leading.

The final module brings together your technical skills, artistry, leadership, and vision so you can step confidently into the next chapter of your creative life.

You'll learn to:

• Integrate everything you've learned

• Refine your artistic vision

• Lead from authenticity and service

• Prepare for life after PhDJ

• Graduate with confidence

Long after graduation, you'll continue to have access to the tools, trainings, and playbooks that support your growth as a DJ, facilitator, and community leader.

Included for Life

DJ Essentials
Our comprehensive foundational training covering equipment, software, music management, terminology, and the technical skills every DJ needs.

The Electric Body Movement Library
An ever-growing library of movement practices, embodiment tools, and dance explorations to deepen your relationship with music and the body.

Nervous System Mastery for DJs
Our signature workshop exploring how music shapes human physiology, emotional experience, and collective states—giving you a scientific framework for creating extraordinary dance floors.

Professional Playbooks & Guides

Everything we've learned from two decades of producing dance floors, teaching DJs, and building community, including:

• Consent & Safety Procedures

• Event Staff Training Manual

• Event Design Playbook

• Booking Gigs & Working with Venues

• Guide to Showing Up Online

• DJ Gear & Equipment Guides

• CDJs Quick Start Guide

• Sound System & Technical References

• Checklists, templates, and practical resources you'll continue using long after graduation.

This library grows with us. As we develop new trainings and resources for the PhDJ community, you'll continue to benefit from an expanding body of knowledge designed to support your work for years to come.