Coping with Stress at the University and Beyond

30 Oct 2024, 09:30 → 31 Oct 2024, 12:30 Europe/Berlin

RWTH

!!! Course postponed to next year !!!

 

As part of the Graduate School HDS-LEE, we offer an internal course on stress management:

“Coping with Stress at the University and Beyond - Training Seminar for (Inter)national PhD Candidates”

Course Description

Working toward a doctoral degree can be a quite challenging endeavor, as students are required to meet several demands from personal and professional areas of life: planning and execution of scientific work deadlines, coordinating meetings and group projects, ongoing communication with colleagues and supervisors, finding a balance between work and private life. It is not always easy for doctoral students to negotiate and meet all these requirements and at the same time remain efficient and healthy. In fact, increase in stress level is quite common during this period of life, as multiple demands can overwhelm a person’s capacity to cope efficiently and adjust in healthy ways.

Target group

This training seminar is designed for (inter)national PhD candidates interested in managing academic and personal sources of stress effectively and in a healthy manner

Goals

During the seminar, we wish to raise awareness about stress in general and personal stressors in particular and demonstrate a wide range of mind and body-based strategies and skills, so that participants build a flexible coping repertoire which will enable them to deal effectively with daily stressors.

Used Methods

This training seminar is based on developmental psychology theory and its grounding in neuropsychological evidence as well as on cognitive-behavioral concepts for personal development. Special importance is attached to the mind-body connection/unity and the individual potential for development and transformation of one’s own mental and physiological processes.

An essential component of the seminar is its group format which opts for raising awareness about the universal aspect of stress, which hopefully contributes to relief via relativism and encourages interactive creativity in the process of learning to cope with stress.

Content

• Psychoeducation about stress, triggers and maintenance of stress.
• Psychoeducation about cognitive, emotional and behavioral patterns that perpetuate levels of stress.
• Developing healthy ways to respond to stress cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally that promote resilience, mental and physical health. 
• Practicing body-based strategies to promote awareness of somatic responses to stress and promotion of physical relaxation.
• Addressing participants’ questions about stress-related issues or topics of concern.

Place

The training seminar will take place on site at RWTH. If it is not possible for you to be present on site, but you would still like to take part in the course, contact us at hds-lee@fz-juelich.de 

Trainer

Evangelia Lambidoni, EdM, EdD; thefourseas.org