WiNS Workshop: Mental health 101 in academia
Thursday, 16. May 2024 // 13.00 - 16.30
WiNS Adlershof (Women in Natural Sciences)
Rudower Chaussee 25,
12489 Berlin
Humboldt-Kabinett
Workshop 1: Your strength and vision in academia
In this first part of our workshop series, we focus on the individual potential and visions of early career researchers. Every early career researcher brings a great set of strengths to build upon during their work in academia – sometimes they just need to be reminded. In addition, knowing your own support system is crucial especially when working in the academic setting in which institutional support is sometimes lacking or stigmatized. Within the workshop, we thus highlight strengths and opportunities, focusing on:
- Identifiying own values, goals, and vision for the academic work
- Recognizing personal strengths, weaknesses, and resources
- Create awareness of own social support network in case of crisis
Applied methods: Within the workshop, different methods are used to keep it interactive, lightweight, and fun for the participants. Our workshops contain easy-to-implement exercises which participants can use outside of the workshop for their daily life as an early career researcher (e.g. breathing exercises, visualization of personal support network).
Target group: Female PhD students and postdocs (max. 12 participants)
Katharina Bögl is pursuing her doctorate in an interdisciplinary research training group in Berlin is a psychotherapist in training. In 2019, she co-founded Scholar Minds, an initiative dedicated to ensure the mental health of Berlin’s early career researchers. As part of the female founder program “Marga Faulstich” at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, she also co-founded reMINDset in 2021 with her colleague and friend Sandra Naumann.
Dr. Sandra Naumann currently works, after her PhD in Psychology at HU Berlin, as a guest lecturer and as child and youth psychotherapist in training. As part of the female founder program “Marga Faulstich” at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, she also co-founded reMINDset in 2021 with her colleague and friend Katharina Bögl.
We recommend taking part in both workshops, but feel free to book them individually if necessary.