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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

Tuesday November 16

• 10.00   Welcome, getting acquainted, your expectations and cases
• 10.35   Defining Self-Management & models on SMART planning, Eisenhower Quadrant, Long Term planning
• 11.00  Break (15 min.)
• 11.15   Motivation: extrinsic and intrinsic
• 11.40   Light house visualization exercise (ACT)
• 12.00   Lunch break and individually filling in the Bull’s Eye worksheet (90 min. in total)
• 13.30   SRC model: perfectionism and procrastination (Cognitive Behavioural approach)
• 13:50   Changing behaviour (steps)
• 14.25   Break (15 min.)
• 14.40  Learning Styles of Kolb (including questionnaire)
• 15.20   Questions
• 15.30   The 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.