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

The aim of the workshop Self-Management – Coping with Procrastination

The aim of this workshop is to enhance skills to be able to keep your PhD-process ongoing: i.e. skills like prioritise tasks, set and agree on deadlines and achieve outcomes on time and within given constraints (such as budget). To find a balance between the self-imposed and expected high standards and the reality of daily life activities the focus is on responsiveness to changes, new circumstances, inevitable delays, and challenges. The core is to understand procrastination as ‘addictive’ behaviour and/or fear of failure due to perfectionism.  

Teaching method

The course provides an equal balance between experience (opportunity to reflect on your personal development), observation and reflection (self-tests, discussion), theoretical background (Cognitive Behavioural approach, Motivation (ACT), Kolb) and skills training (planning strategies).  It is required you are willing to share some personal insights, values and cases.

Programme

Monday March 22

• 09.30   Welcome, getting acquainted, your expectations and cases
• 10.05   Defining Self-Management & models on SMART planning, Eisenhower Quadrant, Long Term planning
• 10.30  Break (15 min.)
• 10.45   Motivation: extrinsic and intrinsic
• 11.10   Light house visualization exercise (ACT)
• 11.30   Lunch break and individually filling in the Bull’s Eye worksheet (90 min. in total)
• 13.00   SRC model: perfectionism and procrastination (Cognitive Behavioural approach)
• 13:20   Changing behaviour (steps)
• 13.55   Break (15 min.)
• 14.10  Learning Styles of Kolb (including questionnaire)
• 14.50   Questions
• 15.00   The 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.