Future Life and Career Plans: Priorities, work-life-balance and a good life

TitleTimeRoomTeacher
Future Life and Career Plans: Priorities, work-life-balance and a good life29.09.2025 09:00 - 17:00 (Mon)OnlineUrsula Wendeberg
Future Life and Career Plans: Priorities, work-life-balance and a good life30.09.2025 09:00 - 17:00 (Tue)OnlineUrsula Wendeberg
Keywords: 
Clearness about status quo, awareness of strengths & values, work-life balance, prioritization vs. procrastination, short, middle, long term orientation, concrete next steps
Course Description: 

Do you sometimes struggle to approach upcoming tasks or decisions for the next professional and private steps? This course offers the opportunity to familiarise yourself with important orientation factors for complex life and career planning: your own strengths and values as well as lasting ideas about your own life. It uses concrete exercises about strengths, prioritisation, value reflection and work-life balance.

In a first draft of a so-called "life statement", you summarise all results in a compact format. The benefit of this course is that you will find it easier to make and implement future life and career decisions.

Course aims: 
  • Awareness of strengths and values
  • Ability to prioritize
  • Consistent target orientation
Teaching methods: 

Short thematic inputs, self-reflection, exchange in small groups, discussion rounds, interactive exercises, analysis of life paths of others, collegial counseling.

This course fits doctoral candidates in the following phase: 

At the beginning of the doctorate │ during the doctorate │ at the end of the doctorate

Participation requirements: 

None.

Technical requirements: 

Laptop/tablet with stable internet connection, microphone, webcam, Zoom (in most cases).

Course preparation: 

Print out cards "areas of life" (will be sent by e-mail in advance).

Additional information: 

None.

What participants say about this course: 
  • The exercises helped to be able to use the methods in real life instead of just knowing they exist.
  • I liked how calm the instructor was and how helpful she was.
  • Ursula turned this course into one of the most useful courses on "soft skills" I ever attended.
Category: 
Fachübergreifende Veranstaltung
Event type: 
Seminar/Workshop
Organizer: 
Graduate School Geschäftsstelle
Responsibility for event: 
Hauptverantwortung
Format: 
Digital/Online
Course Language: 
EN
Course Capacity (Max): 
12
Course capacity (Min): 
1
Duration in hours: 
14
Financial contribution: 
40 Euro
Trainer: 
Ursula Wendeberg

Ursula Wendeberg, educator, political scientist, historian M.A., is a freelance trainer with a focus on life and career planning, team development and ADHD. She works with a method mix of systemic consulting, superlearning and theme-centered interaction (TCI) for universities, companies and public institutions - and is convinced that an open, appreciative and humorous atmosphere in the course significantly increases the learning success.