Course Type: Workshop

Target Group: Doctoral researchers

This resource- and application-oriented workshop provides participants with space and an allowance to stop and take a stock of their situation. They will explore the themes of self-care, resilience, work-life balance, and sustainable working practices within the academic setting.

We will discuss individual factors influencing one’s psychological health and occupational functionality, such as role expectations, values, resources and life-style factors as well as the psychological model of resilience and we will look at practical ways to implement these concepts in everyday life. Participants will assess their current work-life balance while exploring ways to reallocate resources, time, and value to different areas of their life in order to build a working schedule that is sustainable.

Emphasis will be placed on having a reflective experience, promoting benevolence with oneself and in this way, create individual and truly long-lasting solutions.

Contents in brief:

• - What is self-care and what does it look like?
• - Work-life balance
• - Identification of one’s priorities and values
• - Techniques for building resilience
• - Assertive communication self-assessment and practice
• - Resource-oriented mindset: building a positive failure culture
• - Building sustainable working plans

Counting towards the Certificate "Leadership, Management, Science Communication and Knowledge Transfer" (Module IV, 12 AE).

Psychologist, coach and event moderator. Studied at Freie Universität Berlin and graduated from King’s College London with a focus in organizational psychology. After completing further trainings in a number of areas such as coaching, communication and leadership and vocational aptitude testing, work experience in various fields ranging from counselling families within the systemic mindframe to team development, management and career coaching and psychological counselling.