Building Capacity for Emotional Wellness and Coping with the Impostor Syndrome
Four-Parts: Mondays, October 1, 8, 15, 22 – 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Chittenden Hall, Room 110
It is not uncommon for graduate students to experience some anxiety and depression while completing their degree. Balancing personal, family, work, and academic responsibilities can feel overwhelming at times. In order to thrive in your graduate school experience it is helpful to be able to quickly assess your emotional health status and use this data to regain your emotional balance so you can move through your to do list effectively.
This 4-part series will help you understand the importance of emotional wellness, help you see the connection between emotional health and optimal performance, and provide you with the basic emotional wellness tools to help you be more resilient and effective in all the important areas of your life. The class will incorporate basic principles of healthy human psychological functioning, as well as the core concepts of Acceptance Commitment Theory (ACT), and a brief introduction to Shame Resilience Theory (SRT). Click here to register for this workshop.
Back to Basics Series: Developing a Job Search Strategy
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Chittenden Hall, Room 110
Whether you are finishing your degree, taking some time away from your program to return to the workforce, or just thinking about life after grad school, looking for a job can be overwhelming. Between resumes and cover letters, job boards and social media, it’s hard to know where to start—and even harder to get motivated to do much more than sit at your desk and daydream about a new job. So join us in the first of a series of workshops we are calling Back to Basics Series. Developing a strategy for dealing with your job search is important. During this workshop, we will help you clarify your thoughts about what type of job, industry or field may want a future job in, figuring out the best strategy for pursuing that goal, and of course, finding ways to stay motivated along the way.
Academic Women’s Forum: Developing a Practical Framework for Resilience: 6 Words to Live By
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Chittenden Hall, Room 110
Audience: Graduate Women
When we get thrown by a setback, failure, sudden change, or unsettling circumstance/event it is helpful to have a resilience framework to help you skillfully navigate from upset to effective action. Lisa Laughman, Emotional Wellness Consultant for MSU Health4U will share her theory-based blueprint for helping people increase their resilience and will offer an easy to remember 6-word model you can begin to use immediately.
Navigating the PhD
Friday, October 12, 2018, The Writing Center (300 Bessey Hall)
9:00am to 12:00pm: Managing Time and Academic Relationships
In this 3-hour workshop, plans for time management and working with others will be the main focus. Participants will create academic timelines for their PhD work at MSU and discuss technologies and habits that can help them stay on task. Participants will also discuss how to manage the stress that often pervades the life of PhD students and share strategies for overcoming writer’s block and procrastination. Additionally, discussion about selecting and working with committees will provide a space for sharing about and learning how to communicate with faculty members about participants’ research and writing. This workshop is better suited to students in the first 2 or 3 years of PhD work.
Writing Processes and Strategies for Academic Writing
1:00pm to 4:00pm:
In this 3-hour workshop, the focus will be on writing processes and practices. The PhD programs at MSU require written comprehensive exams, dissertation proposals, and dissertations. In the workshop, participants will explore and share their current writing practices and be given practical writing and revision strategies. The latter half of the workshop will focus on developing a plan for approaching comprehensive exams or the dissertation (depending on the student’s current needs). Such a plan will help students develop goals, ask questions, and address writing strengths and limitations to successfully complete their degrees. This workshop is better suited for students who are working on their dissertations or preparing for comprehensive exams.
Lunch will be provided at this workshop. Registration is required.
Click to register for the morning session or the afternoon session.