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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

Monday September 20

• 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

Number of credits

0.2 EC

Cancellation and No-show policy

This course is free for GSLS PhD candidates. However: free of charge does not mean free of responsibility. Once you have signed up for a course, we expect you to attend. For every late cancellation or no-show we have had to disappoint others who would have liked to attend. This is our policy:

• You may cancel free of charge up to 4 weeks before the start of the course. After this date you can only cancel if you have a GSLS PhD candidate to replace you in the course. Send the name and contact information of your replacement to pcc@uu.nl, at least 2 working days before the start of the course;
• We expect that you actively attend the full course, but at least 80%. It is mandatory to attend the first session. If you are absent the first session you cannot follow the remaining of the course;
• Not meeting the above requirements means you will be charged a no-show fee (€ 50). We will send the invoice after the course has ended. We are unable to make any exceptions, unless you have a valid reason (i.e., illness or death in the family 1^st/2^nd degree or partner). Your supervisor has to send an e-mail to pcc@uu.nl indicating the reason.

Unfortunately we don’t offer this course for participants not part of the GSLS. Our courses tend to be fully booked by GSLS PhD candidates.