Welcome to the Mental Health Awareness Days

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS DAYS 2024 for doctoral researchers and postdocs - Improving your resilience during the early career phases

The Mental Health Awareness Days 2024, which will take place from 27 to 29 November, are a joint initiative of Leipzig University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, yDiv/iDiv and HIGRADE/UFZ. Organised by its graduate academies and occupational health management units, we want to support you as researchers at our universities and research institutions. The aim of the graduate institutions and occupational health management is to inform and raise awareness of how you, as researchers at our universities and research institutions, can deal with challenging situations and conflicts in your research activities. Doctoral and postdoctoral researchers are exposed to high levels of mental stress and we would like to support you with the topics presented in order to defuse mental stress situations, set limits or even contribute to your well-being.

Participants

The event is open to all interested doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from the participating institutions. Supervisors are also welcome. 

Registration is not required - simply attend the event you are interested in. Excluded are the on-site workshops on peer coaching and mindfulness.

Programme

During the three days, there will be a variety of online offerings (mostly in English), such as relaxation exercises and a series of short workshops on topics such as stress reduction, de-escalation and setting boundaries, playfulness in the work context, chronic illness, overthinking and mindfulness. In addition, you will be introduced to peer coaching as a tool for mental relief on site at the three locations.

The complete programme can be found below.

 

 

Online and on site

Most of the programme will take place online, so you can participate conveniently from Leipzig, Halle and Jena. In addition, there will be a peer coaching workshop at each site (in Leipzig, Halle and Jena) on 28 November and a workshop on mindfulness at the UFZ on 29 November.

Registration

Registration for the Mental Health Awareness Days is not required - just attend the event you are interested in. Except for the on-site workshops on peer coaching (in Halle, Leipzig and Jena) and mindfulness.

Wednesday, 27 November

Thursday, 28 November

Friday, 29 November

Contact

The Mental Health Awareness Days are organized by: