Resilience Training For Female Academics

Working in academia often entails several challenges: In most positions, a high level of self-organization is necessary, excellent research needs to be conducted, teaching and publishing has to be tended to, funding proposals need to be written and leadership skills have to be developed. Additionally, administrative tasks can take up many hours each day. Many scientists also have care work responsibilities.

This multitude of demanding and very different tasks can lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed or stressed and it can lead to the motivation to take care of one's own mental and physical health. Data show that especially female academics are still more likely to be involved in care work and additionally find it harder to establish themselves professionally. Therefore the number of women leaving academia as well as those experiencing exhaustion or burn out is high.

In this workshop, participants will receive an overview of research results on the topics of mindfulness, resilience and body awareness, as well as theories and methods that are relevant and compatible with the scientific work context.
The focus is on the practice of a mindful attitude and the experience-based discussion of the topics of resilience and self-leadership. Body awareness is trained and participants are thus given everyday access to their own resources.

At the same time, there will also be discussions on how the structures of the academic field affect one's own experience. The workshop doesn’t aim at self-optimization, but enables participants to deal with their surrounding structures in the most beneficial way possible.

Trainer: Dr. Taiya Mikisch
Taiya Mikisch holds a master in cultural studies and a PhD in dance studies. She is a freelance facilitator and trainer for Mental Health, Mindfulness and Leadership at various universities and research institutions in Germany. She is a certified Generative Facilitator (Theory U, Generative Facilitation Institute Berlin) as well as a certified Mindfulness Based Employee and Student Trainer (Achtsame Hochschulen in der digitalen Gesellschaft). She places importance on a diversity-sensitive approach in her workshops.


Language: English
Max. number of participants: 16