Online Coaching for Doctoral Students
Are you a doctoral student at the University of Bonn and in a difficult phase of your PhD project? Do you need help and suggestions to overcome it? Then you have come to the right place!
Upcoming dates:
- January 27, 2025 (waiting list)
- Dates for 2025 will be released soon (sign up for waiting list)
Our offer
- One day a month you can book one of a total of four 90-minute slots in which you can discuss your concerns online with our coaches.
- The coaching is offered in both German and English.
- Our offer targets doctoral students in all phases of their doctorate and is free of charge.
- It is a one-time coaching offer and not an accompanying coaching.
- The doctoral coaching sessions are carried out exclusively by coaches with expertise in academia who can relate to the specific concerns and issues doctoral students face.
- All processes are subject to a confidentiality agreement.
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What is coaching?
Coaching is a goal- and process-oriented dialogical process. The clients are seen as experts for their concerns and their individual background, so no ready-made solutions are presented. Rather, clients are supported in developing and implementing their own individual solutions during the coaching session. This happens, for example, through a change of perspective, the recognition of patterns, a deeper understanding of the problem in dialogic exchange or the awareness of one's own resources.
Possible coaching topics
- Overcoming difficulties in writing the doctoral thesis
- Constructive handling of conflicts
- Self-management in everyday doctoral studies
- Clarification and strengthening of one's own role as a doctoral student
- Stress management, burn-out prophylaxis
- Preparation for challenging situations
- Dealing with biographical transitions: Study/doctorate and preparation for the time after the doctorate
- Dealing with self-doubts and insecurities
- Doubts about the doctorate
I need further advice. What can I do?
An overview of the psychological and social counseling offers at the University of Bonn as well as further information can be found here:
Dates for 2025
- 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
- 10:30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.
- 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Registration deadline: January 20, 2025
Registration
Register now for your online coaching appointment!
Our coaches
Dr. Taiya Mikisch
Advisory focus and profile
Advisory Focus:
- Mindfulness and resilience as key features for navigating the academic field
- Mindfulness techniques as tools for stress management and self-care during the doctoral phase: assessing one’s individual capacities realistically, establishing body awareness, supporting health-promoting behaviour, dealing well with acute stress
- Establishing resource-orientation
- Defining values and purpose of one’s work to help navigate professional decisions and prioritize tasks well
- Dealing with imposter-experiences, finding a healthy attitude towards mistakes and failures
- Easing perfectionism and self criticism through mindful self-compassion
Profile:
- Freelance resilience- and mindfulness trainer in the academic field
- Doctorate in dance studies
- Long term experience in the academic field
- Supporting doctoral students from different universities and research institutions
- Qualifications in the facilitation methods Theory U and Social Presencing Theater by Otto Scharmer and Arawana Hayashi
- Trainer of MBST 1.0, a mindfulness program developed for students by Achtsam.Digital/Achtsame Hochschulen
Prof. Dr. Martin Zierold
Advisory focus and profile
Advisory focus:
- What comes after graduation: career paths inside and outside the university
- Professional goals: developing perspectives, formulating personal goals and needs
- Clarify conflicts in supervision and elsewhere
- Self-care and self-control: dealing with crises & dilemmas
- Self-management and self-organization: from time management to time sovereignty
- Shaping change and bringing it to success
- Communication and leadership, working in teams
Profile:
- Professor for cultural management at the HfMT (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg) with focus on organizational development & strategy
- Practical experience in culture, media, foundations and science management
- PhD in communication science
- Certified coach (systemic coaching and change management, ineko institute at the University of Cologne)
- Freelance coach, trainer and consultant since 2010
Dr. Majana Beckmann
Advisory focus and profile
Advisory focus:
- Reconciling doctorate and family
- Manage task diversity and structure yourself
- Overcome writer's block and procrastination phases
- Deal with low motivation, crises and self-doubt
- As an introverted scientist, use your strengths consciously
- Keep your nerves in the final phase
- Approach the disputation confidently and well prepared
Profile:
- Coach for doctoral students, systemic consultant, emTrace®-Coach, Feminist Coach®, author, mother of three children
- PhD in linguistics. Studies of General Linguistics, English and Romance Languages in Osnabrück and Southampton
- Several years of experience in academic teaching, in media and university didactic consulting as well as in adult education
- Self-employed coach and trainer with a focus on doctoral studies since 2018
- Owner of KLARwärts; coaching for doctoral students (https://www.klarwaerts-coaching.de) and zartherzig; coaching for highly sensitive women (https://www.zartherzig-coaching.de)
