“Becoming a Resilient Scientist” – Application due Jan. 17, 2025

  • Publication date January 10, 2025
  • Categories: Program

A 6 week program titled  “Becoming a Resilient Scientist” is seeking early to mid-stage graduate students to join.  Forwarded message below:

Becoming a Resilient Scientist

A Program from the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE)

Georgia Tech Facilitators: Laura Paige and Lakeita Servance

Audience: Preference will be given to early to mid-stage Graduate students

Application Deadline: 5pm. Friday, January 17, 2025- see flyer for QR code

BioE and Project Engages will be offering this for  graduate students to learn and implement strategies for building resiliency into their professional lives.  A small group (12-15) of graduate students will meet 6 times in the fall with the course facilitators to discuss a webinar viewed on their own time prior to the meeting.

The 6 discussion group meetings will cover the following topics:

  1. Intro to wellness and resilience
  2. Cognitive distortions, imposter fears and stereotype threat
  3. Emotional intelligence and emotion in the workplace
  4. Self-advocacy and assertiveness for scientists
  5. Developing feedback resilience
  6. Maximizing mentoring relationships.

A confidentiality statement will be made at the beginning of each session to guarantee that this is a safe space and that the meetings will not be recorded.

The goals of the program are to:

Provide strategies and tools to help trainees

  1. increase their resilience with a specific focus on academic and research environments
  2. develop interpersonal and emotional intelligence skills needed for success

Provide a place for trainees to come together to discuss

  1. resilience strategies learned in the previous lectures
  2. work toward integrating strategies learned into school, work and life
  3. life, career, research, school and pandemic stress in a facilitated setting

Expectations:

  1. Required attendance at 6 group meetings via Teams (1hr) according to the dates provided below. Prior to the group meeting, watching the provided webinar (2 hours each) either asynchronously or synchronously (with the option to ask questions in real time with synchronous watching).

Attendance Policy:

Due to the limited nature of this workshop, the importance of group discussion, and the fact that topics will build upon one another each week, it is critical that participants attend all 6 sessions and participate fully, including previewing the required webinar ahead of the group meetings. Thus, we expect that absences should only occur in the case of illness or other unforeseen circumstance, which should be discussed with the workshop leaders.

Group Meetings are on (all from 1-2pm):

January 30, 2025
February 13, 2025
February 27, 2025
March 13, 2025
March 27, 2025
April 17, 2025

Thank you,

Laura and Lakeita

 

Laura Paige
Academic Program Manager I
BioEngineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
315 Ferst Drive N.W. Room 2303
Atlanta, GA 30332-0363