Well-being Workshop

With a starting point in your own experiences, we work with themes such as: symptoms and sources of stress, coping strategies, work-life balance, how scientific doubt can be turned into a strength and how to get DEEP work done and transform writing into a practice that supports your well-being instead of inducing stress. The day alternates between smaller presentations, plenary discussions and group work.

Programme

09.30 – 10.45 Setting the scene

• Opening exercise; challenges, worries and best practices in the PhD process
• Presentation on academic work culture by Anne-Lene Sand
• Plenary dialogue: What does it take to be a happy academic?

10.45 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12.30 Inspiration

Four themes are introduced followed by a groupwork in the afternoon where you can choose to go in depth with one of the themes.

1. Stress: Symptoms, sources, coping strategies and work-life balance
2. Supervision: Create a fruitful collaboration with your supervisors
3. Professional uncertainty: How to address it and transform it into a strength
4. Writing & DEEP work: How can a sustainable writing practice reduce stress?

12.30 – 13.15 Lunch break

13.15 – 14.15 Sharing experiences: Group work on one of the selected topics

14.15 – 14.35 Coffee and tea break

14.35 – 15.10 Feedback from the groups: Groups report back in a narrative form

15.10 – 15.45 Looking forward: Collaborative initiatives to support well-being

• Experiences from a buddy programme
• It is a possibility to create thematic peer-groups to support each other in establishing good work practices and well-being – this is not mandatory!

Organizer and presenter: Anne-Lene Sand, Associate Professor, Kolding School of Design

External teacher & facilitator: Mirjam Godskesen, PhD & owner of UNWIND