Time and self management

Procrastination, perfectionism, over-committing. Sound familiar? Learn how to identify your own patterns, find out what might be behind them, and work out what you can do to tackle them so that you can get your thesis finished.

In this workshop we will discuss:

• What is self-sabotage?
• The down side of self-sabotage
• Defeating self-sabotage
• Over-committing: it's enough already
• Procrastination: I'll start when I feel like it
• Perfectionism / writer's block: It's not a Nobel prize (sadly!)
  
• The ultimate defeating SELF-SABotage tool
• 20 excellent excuses for not starting work on your doctorate.

This workshop conducted by external page Dr. Hanna Thörn (external page Psychological Counseling Services UZH & ETH) is centered around building and strengthening your skills to thrive in the face of stress. It will give you a better understanding about underlying mechanisms of stress and its connection to academic success. You will learn how to recognize stress reactions and search for personalized stress resilience strategies to reach more balance in your life and prevent stress-related conditions.

This is an interactive workshop with theoretical inputs and group discussions during which active participation is requested.

Unexpected occurrences, difficult tasks and heavy workload characterize everyday life and work – especially as a doctoral student. In order to manage these challenges, we need our stress response. This two-hour workshop conducted by external page Ariane Orosz, Dr. sc. ETH (external page Centre for Stress-Related Illnesses, Sanatorium Kilchberg; Translational Neuromodeling Unit, UZH and ETH Zurich) demonstrates how stress helps us to adapt to demanding situations and – if engaged for too long – how stress can result in maladaptive processes affecting body, mind and feelings. This workshop illustrates the neurobiological mechanisms of our stress response as well as our “anti-stress systems”, and provides practical inputs on how to transfer this knowledge into everyday life in order to keep balance, strengthen stress resilience and cultivate well-being.