Join us for this workshop to learn practical strategies for building resilience against stress, anxiety, and burnout in academia. Discover how to manage self-critical thoughts, shift your mindset for success, and break free from unhelpful habits like procrastination. Gain tools to create a healthier, more sustainable approach to your work and career.
Academia is an ultramarathon that we try to run as a sprint. This approach tends to leave us with little time or energy for life outside of work and very few resources to cope when we face challenges. But a healthier approach to research is possible and is essential if you want to build a sustainable career in academia (or anywhere else in this fast-paced, competitive world we live in).
Despite our increasing diversity, academics tend to harbour a common chorus of voices in our heads. Voices that demand perfection, or that tell us we aren’t good enough and we don’t belong here; voices that have driven us to excel, but that also charge a pretty high tax. A tax on our emotional, mental and physical health.
Yes, the environment is a contributor to the unhealthy, counterproductive lifestyle many of us live. However, we as individuals can address the way we approach academia to buffer us against stress and burnout, worry and fear, and the toxic competition we are often surrounded by.
This workshop provides you with tools to increase your resilience to stress, anxiety and burnout, and to enhance your overall well-being.
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Desiree Dickerson is a former postdoctoral researcher in the neurosciences and a clinical psychologist.
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