Setting Sail for Mental Health - Strengthened and healthy through the doctoral thesis

Especially in challenging times, it is important to understand how to maintain your own well-being. The Mental Health Days support PhD candidates in strengthening their resilience and mental health. Together you will work on your personal mindset. You identify energy thieves, mobilize resources and learn relaxation exercises suitable for everyday life. Challenges can be mastered much more calmly and your own goals can be achieved more efficiently.

Venue: Umwelt-Bildungszentrum Berlin
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This workshop supports doctoral students in strengthening their resilience and thus their own inner stability. Together you will work on your personal productive mindset by strengthening your resources and developing helpful perspectives. Their own development potential is strengthened in order to master challenges more calmly and to achieve their own goals.

The core of the module is a two-day workshop (no overnight stay) in which you learn how to assess symptoms and effectively prevent the development of crises. A specially developed 3-week format with in-depth assignments following the exam is designed to guarantee that your insights from the exam are also implemented in your everyday doctoral work. A follow-up workshop at the end of the 3-week consolidation phase serves as a final reflection.

Inhalt

• Identify and develop own energy sources and resources
• Setting up structure, creating rituals and establish good habits
• Mindset work: recognize and change destructive thinking patterns
• Setting work-life boundaries
• Mindfulness and self-compassion in difficult times, dealing with self-doubts
• Take action and successfully counter procrastination
• Social support: Using solidarity and networking
• Dealing with unsolvable problems

Methods
We would like to give you a look at your own resources, strengths and potentials in short impulse lectures, with creative and varied methods. In the shared exchange of experiences, further helpful hints for dealing with challenges in everyday university life will certainly come to light. The deepening phase of this training gives you the opportunity to independently try out further approaches in the long-term deepening phase.

Relaxation exercises and meditations, a weekly half-hour meeting (in the deepening phase), accompanying peer groups, deepening tasks and a closed room for the participants for (supervised and) joint exchange complete the offer.