Food for Thought and Group Coaching "Career & Parenthood - Managing the Mental Load"

6. März 2023, von Familienbüro

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Food for Thought “Career & Parenthood”

How do we juggle work life balance when “life” comes with such a huge mental load? When the family to-do list is three times as long as the work to-do list and it is you feel like you are always the one that has to remember. The thinking part of having children is permanent and it is exhausting. It is invisible, unmeasurable and often inescapable.

How do we thrive at work whilst navigating the worry and guilt of managing a family at home? How do we learn to share the planning and management of our homes and not just the delegation of a never-ending task list in our minds?

It is possible.

The Human Resources Development department and the Family Office organize this online seminar with Dr. Desiree Dickerson for doctoral researchers and postdocs with family commitments, to explore what mental load is and how it manifests in our daily lives. We will also introduce the psychological counseling for doctoral researchers as well as the personal counseling for doctoral researchers and postdocs, provided by the Universität Hamburg after the presentation by Dr. Dickerson.

In this seminar we:

• Learn to recognize signs of burnout and tools we can employ to avoid it.
• Learn to take meaningful breaks.
• Learn to be more effective at work so you can enjoy your time at home.
• Identify worry and self-doubt loops and how to stop them.
• Explore mindfulness and self-compassion as tools to help you be present with our kids when we are at home and present with our works when we need to be working.

Date: 17 May 2023
Time: 01.00 - 02.15 pm
Location: Digital
Target Group: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers with Family Obligations

 
Group Coaching 
We have all been given useful advice, we’ve read the books or watched the TED talks. We understand, at least in theory, that we might be able to prioritise our well-being more and navigate the juggle of parenthood and our careers better. But in practice it gets a little more complicated. The reality is: “the learning is in the doing”.
Through these group coaching sessions, we take the time to explore what tools we would like to concretely put into practice and explore the barriers that come up along the way.

Only participants of the Food for Thought “Career & Parenthood” can attend the group coaching sessions.

Group Coaching I
Date: 19 May and 02 June 2023
Time: 09.30 - 11.30 am, respectively
Location: Digital
Target Group: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers with Family Obligations


Group Coaching II
Date: 31 May and 14 June 2023
Time: 09.30 - 11.30 am, respectively
Location: Digital
Target Group: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers with Family Obligations