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Trainer: Drs. P.C.M. Meesters (Paula), PhD-psychologist

The aim of the workshop Balance – Coping with Stress and Pressure

The aim of this workshop is to make you aware of and enhance your personal qualities (i.e., your ‘strengths and weaknesses’) in (re)finding your balance. By increasing your skills in purposeful self-reflection and interaction you will learn to cope better with stress and pressure: internal (thoughts) and external (feedback, criticism, conflict and (in)dependency). These coping skills are an important part of the ability to balance work and private life.  

Teaching method

The workshop provides an equal balance between experience (opportunity to reflect on your personal development), observation and reflection (self-tests, discussion), theoretical background (Stress theory on primary and secondary appraisal and the 3 emotion regulation systems) and skills training (assertiveness). It is required you are willing to share some personal insights, values and cases.

Programme

Wednesday April 14

• 10.00   Welcome, getting acquainted, your expectations and cases
• 10.35   Stress Theory: Primary Appraisal
• 11.00   Break (15 min.)
• 11.15   Physical and emotional awareness / mindfulness meditation exercise
• 11.35   Balance: 3 Emotion Regulation Systems
• 12.00   Lunch break and filling in the thought schedules (part 1 and 2) (90 min. in total)
• 13.30   Stress Theory: Secondary Appraisal / Coping with stress and pressure
• 13:50   Thinking strategies: changing perspectives
• 14.25   Break (15 min.)
• 14.40   Social Skills / Assertiveness, giving and receiving feedback and criticism
• 15.20   Questions
• 15.30   End

Group size

max. 12

Course fee

GSLS PhD candidates can participate without costs.

Our cancellation/no-show policy

We are happy to offer workshops for free to all GSLS PhDs. However: free of charge does not mean free of responsibility. Our activities tend to be fully booked well in advance. For every late cancellation or no-show we have had to disappoint others who would have liked to attend. 

This is how we work: 

• Once you have signed up for a workshop, we expect you to attend;
• If you need to cancel your registration, do so at the earliest possible moment, at least four weeks before the start of the course;
• You have to attend the full course session.
• Not meeting the attendance requirements or cancelling within four weeks before the course starts means you will be charged a no-show fee;
• We are unable to make any exceptions.