Stress Reduction Techniques Workshop

29 May 2020

Stress Reduction Techniques

This online* course focuses on developing anxiety-reducing and confidence building strategies to enhance the research experience.  The workshop will explore time management, group sharing, self-care, mindfulness and creative approaches to research using gamification, writing and research collation and creativity.

Registration for this course will open soon.

​Feedback from PGRs about this course at:

​SWWDTP (South, West and Wales Doctoral Training) Partnership (2019) reported a 22% increase in confidence in coping with stress as PGR students. In late 2019 I ran this workshop over a period of three days for up to 80 new science PhD students from LIDO (Doctoral Training Partnership) based at UCL.  Feedback from those workshops averaged between 25-30% increase in confidence in coping with the PGR Research journey.

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Online Workshop for the social lockdown period

​This course for PhD students is designed to help with developing techniques for self-care around the research process and within the research process while self-isolating or under lockdown.

It focuses on developing resilience in research and includes the following:

• Mindfulness approaches to time-management

• Stress reducing approaches to the research process such as note-taking at early stage research and in other contexts

• Reducing anxiety that causes academic writer’s block

• Using the body as a way to reduce stress and facilitate enhanced creative thinking in research

• Gamification techniques to reduce stress in research using hand/eye coordination

• Approaches to enhancing sleep which is important for concentration and emotional balance

• Group sharing about stress

• Emotional self-care in the context of managing research responsibilities

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Learning Outcomes:

• Enhanced confidence in dealing with stress

• Enhanced knowledge of utilising time management strategies as a method of reducing anxiety

• Enhanced knowledge of the impact of mindfulness as a means to reduce stress and increase concentration levels.

• Enhanced knowledge of the power of creativity to reduce anxiety

  For more information about this course, please visit https://www.scriptorcube.com/stress-reduction-techniques

   

  *Please note: this course will be conducted online via Zoom. Access to a microphone and camera are required for participation.