Wellbeing

PhD study is a long haul and requires vision, purpose, resilience, and motivation.   Does your resilience and motivation fluctuate?  Do you get nervous when submitting your drafts for comment?  Do you feel deflated, upset or frustrated when you get your supervisory feedback, and do you sometimes get conflicting views which you need to integrate? … Continue reading PhD Resilience Workshop

In this workshop we will explore the influence of unconscious processes as a way of understanding and pre-empting relationship problems.  You will learn communication skills geared around gaining the outcome you want from interaction with peers and supervisors.  There will also be tips and strategies for keeping your stress responses and self-confidence healthy while navigating … Continue reading Healthy Relationships – making the most of professional relationships – POSTPONED

The high interdependency between supervisor and supervisee, combined with the pressure to succeed, make power abuse commonplace in Academia. "Power Abuse in Academia- what can we do?" is a 90-minute seminar and facilitated discussion which includes definitions and examples and goes deeper.  It offers insights and encourages discussion on why this is so common and … Continue reading Power Abuse in Academia – Dragonfly Mental Health

There are many misconceptions about psychiatric disease, what causes it, who is at risk, and how it manifests. Increasingly we are understanding how immense a problem this is within academia. Objective mental health knowledge of the audience is assessed before and after the seminar and additional open ended questions are used to facilitate discussion and provide community … Continue reading Introduction to Mental Health Literacy – Dragonfly Mental Health

Many potential mentors and mentees believe that mentoring is solely about the mentor providing advice about the mentee’s professional development.  High quality relational mentoring has the potential to be bidirectional (enhancing the development of both the mentor and mentee) and transformational (impacting how the mentor and mentee think about not just their current job, but … Continue reading Mentoring as a Two-Way Street – Dragonfly Mental Health