Creating a balanced lifestyle in academia

Having a good work-life balance in the academic environment is crucial for the well-being and productivity of researchers. 
PhD students are often faced with an intense work environment and need time for personal interests and relaxation to avoid long-term stress. 
For faculty in the tenure-track, finding a balance between career development and personal needs is essential to prevent a burnout. As research group leaders, they, like their tenured colleagues in the faculty, face the challenge of leading their research groups in a healthy and positive way, thus creating a healthy work situation.

In this context, we will offer lectures and workshops on the following topics:

Pausing, Planning and Executing:
Techniques for Effective Break and Time Management in Academia
 
This workshop introduces techniques for effective break organization and time management in an academic context. 
Learn how regular breaks, structured time planning and proven methods such as the Pomodoro Technique or Time Boxing can increase your productivity and well-being. 
Learn how to reduce daily stress levels, make the most of your resources, and organize your work efficiently to successfully accomplish both short-term tasks and long-term goals -- while getting more out of your free time.
 
Stress Smart: 
Finding Peace Under Pressure
 
This workshop teaches you how to effectively manage short-term stress in an academic context. 
The physiological meaning of stress and its effects on the body and mind are explained. 
You will learn how to recognize your own stressors and develop strategies for dealing with them. 
Techniques for coping with stress (e.g. relaxation and breathing techniques) and time planning will be presented to help you cope with deadlines for articles and research projects. 
The course also shows how resource management can optimize energy and strengthen mental health.
 
Resilient Researcher:
Strategies for Coping with Academic Challenges
 
This workshop looks at how to become more resilient when dealing with short-term challenges, but also how to take a preventative approach to stress in the long term. 
The program focuses on adaptability, lessons learned from setbacks, emotional strength to cope with stress and anxiety, and ways to build support systems. 
It will also show how mental resource management, goal setting, self-efficacy and problem-solving skills can help overcome academic challenges, while remaining mentally stable and maintaining energy for personal life as well.

Lunch Break: Healthy, Delicious and Easy to Make Wraps

We will prepare some healthy wraps together with the participants.
The recipes will be provided to the participants so that they can easily recreate them at home (with the family). 
Wraps are also great for meal prepping so that healthy eating does not become yet another "time thief".

We are very happy to invite you to attend this event. Please send us an e-mail to aklasen@mpi-klsb.mpg.de
by July 28th letting us know you would like to participate and on which of the three days.

You have the choice between three days (two in English and one in German, the program will be the same on all three days):

Monday, 09/24/2024 English
Tuesday, 09/25/2024 English
Wednesday, 09/26/2024 German

The workshops will take place in building E1 4 and will be spread out over the day.
We will let you know the exact times once you have confirmed your attendance.

Online registrations for the 21st Saarbrücken Women's Run will be open from Monday, March 4. It will take place on Saturday, May 25, 2024 at the Alte Brücke on the Saarwiesen below the Staatstheater. There will once again be a ten-kilometer and a 4.5-kilometer running course as well as a 4.5-kilometer walking course.

The 10-kilometer runners will start at 3 p.m., followed by the 4.5-kilometer runners and finally the walkers. In addition, there will once again be a team competition in which three runners register for the same course under one team name. The fastest teams in each race will receive a special prize.

Registration at: https://my.raceresult.com/272290/

March 8, 2024 is International Women's Day - a day for fighting, discussing, celebrating. The members of the FrauenForum Saarbrücken as well as various institutions, activists and associations invite you to a variety of events around this day in March.
You can find further information here: https://www.saarbruecken.de/rathaus/stadtpolitik/frauenbuero/

Events for the International Women's Day in Saarbrücken: https://www.saarbruecken.de/media/download-65f297de55a33