Academic Confidence

In this online interactive and engaging workshop, you will explore the concept of self-confidence in an academic context: how it is acquired, how it can be sabotaged (inner-critic) and how it can be changed. This workshop offers strategies, tools and techniques to build positive self-esteem and to successfully deal with ‘imposter syndrome’.

By the end of the three sessions, you will:

•  understand common challenges as a PhD researcher that can lead to self-doubt and have actions to help in such situations
• have identified and challenged the unhelpful ways you think you ‘should’ be – that is, the selfimage relative to which you develop impostor syndrome
• recognise patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour that undermine confidence, and how they arise
• have tools to help develop new perspectives and behaviours that contribute to confidence
• have learned how to practice elements of mindfulness, using different cues to bring attention to ‘here and now’ and develop self-compassion rather than self-criticism
• have clarified your expectations relative to actual academic expectations
• have actions and practical steps to implement what you have learned
• have done all of this in the constructive and normalising context of a peer-group

Participants are expected to work on interim assignments / reflections between sessions.

Dates and location : 

Teacher:

Jamie McDonald 

Language of the course:

English

Docop-points:

This course counts for 0,9 docop-points.

Registration:

Via Sisa Self Service. Log in with your student account. Registration is possible as from 8 January 2025 and after you've been (re-)enrolled as a PhD student for 2024-2025.