| Title | Time | Room | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Health | 15.09.2026 09:00 - 17:00 (Tue) | TUM Graduate School: Boltzmannstraße 17, 85748 Garching bei München, Room 102 | Judith Bergner |
Staying Sane in Academia, Maintaining Joy and Fulfillment at Work
Participants learn to confidently master challenging situations – with the goal of growing, strengthening their resilience, and building self-confidence. They develop constructive ways of dealing with failures and setbacks and recognize how to draw personal resources from challenges.
A further focus is on self-organization: Participants learn what they need to pay attention to in order to remain functional and healthy despite a heavy workload. They understand the vicious circle of stress and how they can influence it. They learn practical methods and techniques that can be easily integrated into everyday academic life – for greater mental strength, clarity, and composure in everyday work.
- Self-awareness
- Self-motivation
- Self-calming
- Self-organization
- Emotional regulation
Impulses from research of current empirical findings on resilience, self-leadership, and mental strength – concise, understandable, and practical. Self-reflection and mental exercises: participants reflect on their own behavior and experiences in challenging situations. Targeted mental techniques – e.g., the WOOP method (Wish – Outcome – Obstacle – Plan) – help promote inner clarity and the ability to act. Activating personal resources through targeted exercises, participants learn to draw on their own strengths, values, and motivation – especially during stressful or uncertain times. Self-management techniques for everyday life: practical tools such as agile working methods, the Pomodoro technique, and prioritization tools help them better handle heavy workloads and use their energy wisely.
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- Very open and warm-hearted, trusting atmosphere.
- The interaction between the trainer and the other students with exchange of experiences. Good examples. Suggested methodologies were presented clearly. Overall well done.
- The atmosphere was welcoming and kind, lots of practical exercises and ideas to take home, very well tailored to the needs of doctoral candidates.
- Overall, I really enjoyed the course and the teaching methods (good balance between theory and group work/ discussion).
Having been a single mom and a self-employed business consultant, Judith Bergner was forced to take care of herself responsibly in order to be a good mother, a successful consultant and a happy human being. Having learned a lot about mental strength from private experience, she studied scientific research about the issue with great interest. She enjoys the opportunity to design and deliver a course on the topic and to support doctoral candidates to stay confident, strong, and healthy during challenging times.