Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Online: Working with your Mind

Course Code
50160776

Course has already taken place

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):

Suitability
All staff.

If this date is full, then please register on our waiting list by
emailing your details to peopledev@leeds.ac.uk.

Date(s)
Wednesday, June 02, 2021, 14:30 to 16:30

Max Places:
35

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work requirements: None

Overall aim of course
Even before the pandemic email was consuming more work time and
electronic media more of our time overall – now with the pandemic,
internet access and our use of social media and working online has
increased exceptionally. Whilst there are many ways in which electronic
media enhance our working and personal lives they are also cited as a
source of stress and can take us over. Indeed, much of the electronic
communications activity we engage in is designed to hijack attention and
become addictive.

Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:

This workshop will introduce you to psychological perspectives on our
use of email, the internet and social media especially when so much of
our leisure and work is through these mediums. Based on this knowledge
the workshop will offer strategies for taking control of attention,
managing your engagement with email and social media, to get some
respite and reclaim some mental space.

We will think about how our minds work online and through social media
and consider different ways to work healthier

Learning and teaching methods: An interactive online workshop.

Tutor: Nicola Neath; University of Leeds Staff Counsellor and Trainer
-Nicola is a MBACP Accredited Psychotherapist.


Related courses

Adapted Programme for 2020 -2021

We have selected some of the workshops from our previous programme that
are particularly relevant to the stresses, strains and uncertainty in
our personal and professional lives associated with the coronavirus
pandemic. We have identified that one of the consequences of increased
working from home has been to impact colleagues work-life balance. This
impact may continue as work patterns involving a combination of working

from home and on campus evolve; and as we learn to manage periodic and
localised lock downs. You can obtain more information and sign up to
attend these online workshops by e-mailing peopledev@leeds.ac.uk. To get
the most out of your workshop please try to allocate a quiet private
space for yourself to participate and try to avoid booking anything
directly for at least 20 minutes before or after the workshop. These
selected workshops have been adapted to be offered online via MS TEAMS.
For anyone new to MS TEAMS there will be an opportunity to learn how to
navigate around the application. Further University guidance on using MS
Teams can be found here: https://it.leeds.ac.uk/it/?
id=kb_article_view&sys_kb_id=50536fc3db6b0c90600e3445f396194b

The workshops dovetail together and can be done in any order. They can
also be taken individually by participants who may have identified
specific areas where they would benefit from some guidance.

· Working with change and uncertainty

· Understanding and managing anxiety and panic

· Working with Stress and Emotion

· Switching Off– Relaxation and Sleep

· Mindfulness and attention skills to steady and focus your mind

. Active Approaches to Worry

Attendance at other workshops in the series may be beneficial.