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