Mental Health & Well-being Webinar: Tackling procrastination

Monday 19 May 2025, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Berlin

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As part of our Mental Health & Well-being Webinar Series, we offer the webinar

“Tackling procrastination”

on May 19, 2025, 11 am - 12:30 pm
zoom link to be provided to all registered participants

Content & Organisation:
Procrastination is a way of easing our own discomfort. Discomfort because the task is too hard, too boring, too big, too scary. The difficulty with procrastinating is that it makes you feel better for a moment but it does nothing to fix the reason the task feels uncomfortable to begin with. It is still too big, too hard, too scary, or too boring the next time you sit down to doit. And so the vicious cycle repeats. In this webinar we learn how to identify these procrastination loops when they start to unfold, identify some of the thoughts underlying the discomfort and reframe them, and employ alternative strategies that can alleviate the discomfort and make the task less difficult, scary, hard or boring.

Speaker:
Desiree Dickerson PhD (https://desireedickerson.com/) is a clinical psychologist who specializes in academic mental health and wellbeing. A former researcher herself, Desiree is now based in Europe, working with leading academic institutions, lab groups, and academics themselves to promote a healthier approach to research.

She has also contributed to the dialogue on mental health and well-being in academia through recent pieces in Nature and Science on imposter syndrome, perfectionism, mental health in grad school and mental health strategies during the COVID pandemic.

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