Mental Health & Well-being Webinar: Well-being: An active approach

Monday 23 Mar 2026, 09:00 → 10:30 Europe/Berlin

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

“Well-being: An active approach”

on March 23, 2026, 09:00 - 10:30 
zoom link to be provided to all registered participants

Content & Organisation:
Maintaining well-being requires an active approach. In this webinar, we explain the concept of having
an “empty bucket”, a metaphor for the constant outpouring of ourselves into our work and the
inevitable depletion that follows.
But we CANNOT pour from an empty bucket. And our buckets do empty.

We explore:

• The many ways that we drain our bucket day-to-day. The physical, the emotional, the mental, the social drains that we often don’t acknowledge.
• The cost of trying to achieve and excel with an empty bucket.
• Key tools that help you fill that bucket – why time doing nothing is key and how gratitude, play, and diversity can help us feel happier, both in the moment and in the long-term.

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.

Register now!