Mental health & Well-being Webinar: Motivation & Procrastination

Monday 23 May 2022, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Berlin

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

“Motivation & Procrastination”

on May 23, 2022, 10-11 am
zoom link to be provided to all registered participants

Content & Organization:
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, which makes it very reinforcing (and therefore more likely that you will do it again next time), 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 do it. So, the cycle repeats.

We discuss ways to:

• Identify these procrastination loops when they start to unfold,
• Identify some of the thoughts underlying the discomfort and reframe them,
• Employ alternative strategies that can alleviate the discomfort AND make the task less difficult, scary, hard or boring.
• Explore drivers of our motivation.

After the 45-minute presentation there are 15 minutes for discussion and Q&A.

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 and works with leading academic institutions, lab groups, and academics themselves in the pursuit of a healthier approach to research.

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

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