Well-Being Essentials Workshop
What?
Learn how to recharge without caffeine, react smarter under pressure and to visualize and act on what you really want.
This 3-week workshop series is designed to boost your performance and well-being by teaching you mindfulness based methods that will help you to re-energize, to initiate change and to live intentionally.
Read more & Sign upOnline Presentations Workshop
What?
Do you want to improve your presentation skills? This is an interactive, learning by doing oriented workshop to train your online presentation and public speaking skills. We will focus on two fundamental ingredients: your voice and your body language. You will attend two evenings of 3 hours each. They consist of short theoretical inputs, many interactive exercises and lots of constructive feedback. We will practice in a small group of 6 participants and two coaches from the Rhetorikforum UZH. This is the perfect environment to experiment, train and unfold your true potential as a speaker.
This is part of our Scientific Excellence & Well-Being initiative.
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We’re planning a series of evening online activities to pass the time before we can meet in person again.
Virtual get-to-know-each-other games
Did you like the Zoom speed friending activity? Or did you miss it and want another chance to make new friends at the department? Join us for a series of collaborative and competitive games, where you’ll get to know your fellow PhD students and postdocs while exercising your cooperation skills.
Over the coming weeks, we’ve prepared four exciting events for you. More information will be released closer to each event - but you can already start thinking about which of your colleagues you want to challenge to a round of Among Us in the board game night, or compete against in the final pub quiz!
Read more & Sign upMental Health in Academia
What?
Do you want a joyful and productive research environment? Learn how from Dr Anamarija Klaic, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at University of Zurich!
Mental health in academia is a topic of growing interest due to the fact that academic staff in universities are suffering more and more from precarious work conditions and thereby developing mental health issues. Numerous studies were able to demonstrate that professors, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students likewise have a prevalence for having or developing disorders such as anxiety and depression twice as high compared to employees in other work contexts. In this talk, Dr Anamarija Klaic will highlight the current work situation for the academic staff at universities and provide some ideas how to improve mental health in academics by presenting some empirical findings from research done by her and her colleagues.
This is a 30-40 minute talk, followed by some Q&A and a discussion in small groups in breakout rooms.
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