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Carving Out Your Niche This Year
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In touch with yourself
Following your personal goals
Loving your life
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Given the Covid19-context, starting the new academic year may involve simply you, your desk, your computer and your plants...
Irrespective of your position right now - in, in-between or transitioning - positions, and if this applies for you: irrespective of the efforts of your institute or team to gather (online) and make the most of the situation, you may feel alienated, lonely and possibly a little bit lost.
So, let's try our best and get energized together to start off this new academic year. With this letter, I offer you support in to get full access to your energy, your potential before starting the new year.
My core goal is to support academics and academic teams to create a more nurturing work environment together. One of my key strategies is to help academics develop their emotional literacy: enhancing insights, knowledge, skills and motivation to develop personally.
For me, a game changer has been to fully realize that if I am not in flow, if I'm not thriving, I am blocking myself.
Understanding how we block ourselves is a great way to regain access to all of our energy.
What strikes me in working with academics is how many of us feel out of place or undeserving.
The consequences? We adapt to who and what we think belong and deserve. Censoring ourselves, not pursuing our passions, we get estranged from ourselves.
Most academic newsletters amplify our feelings through a discourse of ranking and comparing and very particular definitions of success.
So, if we are going to expose ourselves to this by opening up our inboxes, let's lower the risk of losing energy over self-doubt and corresponding self-defeating dynamics because of it.
You can start this year differently. To support you in having full access to your energy and potential, I've created an Emotions by Numbers Assignment for you.
You only have to invest a little bit of time.
Open up and become curious about how you are relating to the academy right now. Raise your awareness to the feelings, out of a list of 40, dominate this moment for you.
Why? It will help you articulate the underlying needs, and help you free up your energy for your core responsibilities this year.
You'll help yourself re-member the academia on your terms and carve out your niche.
So, if you have 7 minutes of undisturbed time to spare, check out 'On Belonging in Academia':
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Blog Post:
On Belonging in Academia
with the list of 40 emotions
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And of course, I offer other opportunities to work together on your academic/life themes. You are welcome for both individual trajectories and workshops of small groups of kindred spirits.
You are very welcome, <<First Name>>, to come and work with me in the upcoming Academic Authenticity Course.
You can pick and choose the workshops that resonate with you, and you can also embark upon the full program with a passe-partout at a reduced price.
Just choose whatever suits your needs and schedule best.
I will be gathering with small groups (max 11 participants) to address the core themes that will help us thrive.
What participants say about my online training program?
- "I did not really expect anything from this online gathering, but I am simply amazed by how we got to such a profound depth, and felt such confidentiality together to address our life themes," a PhD student at Leiden University.
- "A) I've realized that previous safe spaces weren't actually 'safe'. I am so gonna use your conditions as well! B) The way you turn a safe space into a brave space is simply mind blowing. This is what we need in academia!" a postdoc researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen.
- "This is the best workshop I've attended in all of the years that I've been at this university," PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Want to find out for yourself?
Then join me in the Academic Authenticity Course.
Please check out the program of the Academic Authenticity Course (Sep-Nov):
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