Time and self management
Dr. Vira Bondar (EPT-?hub, ETH)
Dr. Ariane Orosz (external page Sanatorium Kilchberg, TNU UZH & ETH)
- Online workshop "Neurobiological bases of stress and stress management" (only in spring semester)
Dr. Ariane Orosz (external page Sanatorium Kilchberg, TNU UZH & ETH)
- Online seminar "Sleep and recovery" (only in fall semester)
As a doctoral student, you face numerous demands on your time. Often, you find yourself switching roles between being a student, researcher, teacher, and other duties. Sometimes, all these responsibilities can pile-up, overwhelming you.
This short workshop aims to increase your awareness of how you allocate your time and provide strategies to enhance your self- and time-management skills.
The workshop is conducted by Dr. Vira Bondar. Vira co-founded and leads the EPT-hub, an interactive space which supports Teaching Assistants of introductory physics courses in their teaching duties and beyond. Vira is also doing particle-physics research in the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.
Registration
Date: Monday 10 March 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Online (ZOOM)
external page Registration "Be the master of your time!"
Procrastination, perfectionism, over-committing. Sound familiar? Learn how to identify your own patterns, find out what might be behind them, and work out what you can do to tackle them so that you can get your thesis finished.
In this workshop we will discuss:
- What is self-sabotage?
- The down side of self-sabotage
- Defeating self-sabotage
- Over-committing: it's enough already
- Procrastination: I'll start when I feel like it
- Perfectionism / writer's block: It's not a Nobel prize (sadly!)
- The ultimate defeating SELF-SABotage tool
- 20 excellent excuses for not starting work on your doctorate.
This workshop conducted by external page Dr. Hanna Th?rn (external page Psychological Counseling Services UZH & ETH) is centered around building and strengthening your skills to thrive in the face of stress. It will give you a better understanding about underlying mechanisms of stress and its connection to academic success. You will learn how to recognize stress reactions and search for personalized stress resilience strategies to reach more balance in your life and prevent stress-related conditions.
This is an interactive workshop with theoretical inputs and group discussions during which active participation is requested.
Registration
Date: Wednesday 26 March 2025
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Location: ETH Main Building (R?mistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich), room HG F 33.5
Registration "Stress resilience" will open in January.
Unexpected occurrences, difficult tasks and heavy workload characterize everyday life and work – especially as a doctoral student. In order to manage these challenges, we need our stress response. This two-hour workshop conducted by external page Ariane Orosz, Dr. sc. ETH (external page Centre for Stress-Related Illnesses, Sanatorium Kilchberg; Translational Neuromodeling Unit, UZH and ETH Zurich) demonstrates how stress helps us to adapt to demanding situations and – if engaged for too long – how stress can result in maladaptive processes affecting body, mind and feelings. This workshop illustrates the neurobiological mechanisms of our stress response as well as our “anti-stress systems”, and provides practical inputs on how to transfer this knowledge into everyday life in order to keep balance, strengthen stress resilience and cultivate well-being.
Registration
Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Online (ZOOM)
external page Registration "Neurobiological bases of stress and stress management"
Healthy sleep is essential for both our physical and mental health, as well as for good performance. During sleep, our bodies undergo regenerative processes, while our brains consolidate newly acquired memories. Healthy sleep is also crucial for processing and regulating emotions.
In this seminar, Dr. sc. ETH external page Ariane Orosz (external page Centre for Stress-Related Illnesses, Sanatorium Kilchberg and Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU), University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) will provide relevant information for understanding sleep and address the relationship between stress and disturbed sleep. Most importantly, the seminar will equip participants with practical and effective strategies for establishing healthy sleep habits and achieving restful sleep.
There will be a Q&A session in the second part of the session.