Events

Thrive in academia and work-from-home

An interactive webinar for research groups and institutions – online with breakout rooms. Topics ranging from the role of the academic culture in supporting researchers to the challenges of working-from-home, sharing hands-on tools for stress management, high performance, optimal sleep and healthy habits.

• 19/01 2021 – Electrical Engineering Department, Chalmers Technical University

Burnout prevention & Coping under COVID19 

Interactive webinars for PhD students – Online with breakout rooms. Topics ranging from the role of the academic culture in burnout prevention to the mindset of performance, building a toolbox for wellbeing and resilience as well as how to cope and work from home under the COVID19 pandemic.

• 01/06 2020 – PhD Student Guild at Chalmers Technical University
• 03/11 2020 – Career talks at Sahlgrenska Academy – Gothenburg University
• 14/12 2020 – Faculty of Medicine – Lund University

Navigate academia and Maximize your potential

A series of workshops to support personal and professional development of PhD students. This is holistic process resulting in the design of a manifesto for each PhD student to reflect, create their vision and set goals for the PhD and beyond. Insights and progress shared in breakout rooms to foster learning and peer-to-peer support. The themes covered are self-leadership, healthy habits and sleep, nurture wellbeing and maximize your potential. 

• 25/09 2020 to 16/10 2020  – PhD Student Guild at Chalmers Technical University

Leadership training – Enkindle Global

A facilitated and tailor-made strategic process to support organisations create their own wellbeing culture. This is a holistic deep participatory process of 5 workshops to explore stressors, create a vision of wellbeing for the organisation and design wellbeing solutions to support leaders and employees in the long term.

Educational webinars – Enkindle Global

Webinars raising awareness about burnout prevention and supporting leaders in their role to foster a well-being culture in their organisation.

• 20/04 2020 Hacking teams’ wellbeing
• 22/09 2020 Preventing burnout for change makers
• 20/10 2020 Take a Reality Check on Employee Burnout

Career seminars

Seminars aiming to inspire PhD students on the variety of career paths after the PhD featuring my personal career journey and lessons learned along the way.

• 21/01 2020 Physics department at Chalmers Technical University
• 30/01 2020 PhD Student Guild at Chalmers Technical University
• 06/02 2020  Sweden employment safety agency – Trygghetsstiftelsen

International Coaching Federation

Coordinating community and educational events for International Coaching Federation – West Sweden Chapter

• 26/02 2020 Borders between coaching and therapy
• 06/15 2020 Coaching small business owners

PhD Connect meetups

PhD Connect is a community gathering researchers of all horizons and career situations to share together in a safe space about the challenges of working in academia and beyond. To join the online community, click here. 

• 06/02 2020 Meetup #1
• 03/05 2020 Meetup #2

creative mornings

Inspirational talk at Creative Mornings Gothenburg as part of Audience Takes The Stage event. The theme was Wonder and I wondered how the world would be if we were friends with our mind.

Listen to the talk here.

Photos by Sina Farhat.

more2020

Seminar and workshop organized by the Mobility for Regional Excellence 2020 program (MoRE2020), a research mobility program co-founded by Region Västra Götaland, Sweden and the European Union. During the seminar, we discussed the stress factors of being a researcher and explored tools for mental clarity. During the workshop, we navigated personal challenges in a safe and shared lessons learned from a group and individual perspective.

Here’s a snippet from the seminar.

Enkindle Global Workshop

A particpatory workshop organised by Enkindle Global, a worldwide organization that supports people in preventing burnout and reigniting their passion. Our team facilated open conversations and sharing circles around the challenges of burnout and how to incorporate wellbeing at the workplace.

Here’s a snippet from the workshop.

gothenburg women scientists

Inspirational talk organized by Gothenburg Women Scientists as part of the community networking event. The theme was Reduce Stress and Avoid Burnout – How do you take care of your mind to avoid burnout?

Here is a snippet of the talk.

podcast interview

A podcast interview where I describe my professional journey from Ph.D. in biophysics to becoming a coach for science innovators. A raw and vulnerable story about how stressed I was during my Ph.D., almost hit the wall and got a wake-up call. I dig into how I rebuilt myself from scratch and changed mindset, switched carrier and became a professional coach to protect others from burnout.

International Coaching Federation

Coordinating community and educational events for the International Coaching Federation –  West Sweden Chapter.

• 09/09 2020 Coaching Leaders in the wind of change
• 07/10 2020 Coaching personalities – do they exist?
• 04/11 2020 Leadership in an agile era

lunch seminar

Sustainability lunch seminar organized by Lindholmen Students for Sustainability and Göta Student Association, IT section of Gothenburg University. Together we explored the question Is your mind sustainable? and discussed how mental clarity is a key component to reaching sustainability for the planet.

Listen to a snippet of the seminar here.