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GROW Workshops

The Graduate School Office of Well-Being offers an array of different workshops to groups across campus. These workshops are tailored to the unique needs of every unit, ensuring that participants come away with a meaningful, positive impact.

To request a tailored workshop for your group or department, reach out to GROW Program Director Meg Moore.

Workshop Topics

  • Stress Management
  • Stress is unavoidable in graduate school. Learn how to increase your capacity to manage stress by using simple and immediately applicable techniques.

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  • Imposterism
  • Graduate school is hard enough without lingering feelings of inadequacy or intellectual fraudulence. 

    No matter how well you may be doing, you may feel like it is never enough. You are not alone. This workshop will help you understand and address imposterism.

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  • Self-Care in Graduate School
  • If you aren’t paying attention to your physical, mental and relational health, it will eventually cost you more than you can afford. 

    This session will offer practical tips for how to take care of yourself while keeping your academics and research a priority. You will also learn about many resources offered by MSU to support your well-being. 

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  • Understanding & Increasing Motivation
  • There is more to increasing motivation than just trying harder. 

    We’ll discuss procrastination, managing energy as well as time, and setting goals that work for you instead of against you.

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  • Recognizing & Coping with Burnout
  • If we aren’t careful, we will push ourselves to the point of burnout, and it may take a long time to recover. 

    If we catch it early, we can stop ourselves from shutting down.

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  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Emotional intelligence (EQ) has been shown to be a better predictor of success in work and life than IQ. What is it and how can we cultivate it?

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  • Conflict Resolution
  • Learn principles and strategies for managing interpersonal conflict effectively. 

    This workshop can also be tailored to focus on disruptive messaging: options for how to address situations where microaggressions or bias incidents have occurred. 

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  • Overcoming Negativity
  • We are often our own worst critics, and our own negativity can be the source of our greatest discouragement. 

    How do we thrive in an environment that is designed to be critical? Learn to outsmart your tendency for negativity.

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  • Supporting Students in Distress
  • Learn how to identify students in distress as well as practical suggestions for how to support distressed students and encourage them to take advantage of available resources.

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