Lessen Academic Stress
November 10, 1–2:15 p.m.
With certain mindsets and deliberate practices, academic stress can be modulated and even leveraged to support academic success, not hinder it. This workshop will discuss the “stress cycle” and invite real-time practice of evidence-based stress-release techniques. Students will have opportunity to consider upcoming academic stressors and begin to formulate personalized plans to manage stress going forward.
It’s common for systemically marginalized students to hear and believe that they must work twice as hard as everyone else to get the same results and recognition. In this session, we will examine how added diversity work and imposter work can show up in the academic lives of marginalized graduate students, how some marginalized scholars have navigated these challenges, and how you too can honour your energy, realign your values to match your goals, and regain a sense of control despite the ongoing demand for your labour.
This workshop is for grad and professional-degree students to take a critical look at how you currently “manage time” and what managing time actually means: planning ahead to ensure sufficient space to learn well and produce quality academic work with a balance of self-care and well-being. Students will leave with a map of deadlines for the coming term, some weekly-target objectives, and a plan for daily follow-through on key tasks.
More than just a state or mood, academic motivation is something that can be built, with practice, to support learning and productivity in grad school. Academic motivation involves both self-regulation and consistent behaviours proven to support self-care, cognitive function, and academic success. This workshop will explore aspects of motivation, as well as mindsets and practices, to encourage self-efficacy in navigating the ups and downs of motivation during one’s grad degree.
This follow-on to an earlier Time Management workshop will give space to build out a specific academic plan for the remainder of 2025 and for your 2026 academic terms. Get strategic feedback on your academic planning from a learning strategist focused specifically on grad and professional-degree students. We’ll review key principles of high-level deadline planning, weekly goal-setting, and following through on daily tasks. Attendance at the November 17 workshop is strongly recommended but not firmly required.
Academic feedback (on evaluations, and from supervisors/professors, etc.) is a powerful support deep learning and development in your field as a grad student. Learning to hear feedback with true curiosity, openness, and even confidence is key to an academic growth mindset; this skill requires self-regulation capacity to meaningfully consider and actually apply feedback given. This workshop will touch on the social affective neuroscience and somatic psychology of self-regulation around feedback and learning-mindsets. We’ll explore managing emotions when hearing feedback and ways to process feedback after the fact, to improve learning towards academic success.
Academic self-care is vital to sustain the cognitive work required in grad school. This workshop will give space to get clearer about your current stress and burnout levels; examine the impacts of burnout on your learning, academic performance and holistic well-being; and explore ways to rejuvenate your academic routines for renewed energy and focus.
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