Mind Your Own Revisions

Day 3 of the #30days30tips on Productivity.

A proven technique to get to the other side of "I don't feel like it"...

Here's how to get inspiration from action.

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Day 2 of the #30days30tips on Productivity.

How do you eat an elephant? Piece by piece.

But how do you make those little pieces that can be eaten easily?

Here's how.

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Day 1 of the #30days30tips on Productivity.

Productivity is a result of good Time, Energy, and Attention management.

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Kumsal Tekirdag-Kosar is a scientist, parent, migrant, and a social worker based in Toronto, Canada. She has lived experience with mental health challenges and now, her mission is to become a Mental Health Practitioner in Canada herself to give back and support the mental wellbeing of vulnerable communities.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Mental health during PhD and post-doc
• Migration for academic career 
• Isolation that comes with migration
• Career change and "starting over"
• Social work and therapy in North America
• Talking about burnout in the workplace
• Discrimination that migrants face

and so much more...

Find out more about Kumsal at https://www.linkedin.com/in/aysekumsaltekirdag/

Watch this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ce2W0CkIv38

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According to the publication from 2018 by Evans et al. in Nature Biotechnology, 41% of graduate students meet the criteria for moderate to severe anxiety and 39% of graduate students meet the criteria for moderate to severe depression. This is, compared to 6% of the general population.

We are battling with a pandemic of mental health and burnout in academia. The problem is very obvious, but what can we do to be a part of the solution?

Here are some ideas to get you started.

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Els Deboutte is a career coach based in Leuven, Belgium. She is the co-founder of "Make Me Fly!", which offers solution-focused coaching and training in the areas of career management, leadership, collaboration, and life. She is the author and co-author of several books on career management and recently published ‘Content!’ co-authored with her colleague Rilla Lysens. The book offers simple solutions for a happy life. Throughout her career in HR, coaching and training, she worked for multiple decades with and in the academic world, in which she currently combines this experience with her passion for happiness in work, life and collaboration.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Els' burnout story
• Early career researchers
• Supervision
• Wellbeing
• Career prospects for young academics
• Transitioning out of academia for ECRs

and so much more...

Find out more about Els's work at Make Me Fly! at https://makemefly.be/ (in Dutch)

Find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elsdeboutte/

Watch this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5FrgNLLITpY

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Stephan Marchant is a wellbeing advisor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium as well as a dance and movement therapist.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Definitions of "health" and "wellbeing"
• Positive health
• Integration of body and mind (feeling AND thinking)
• Role of wellbeing advisor at KU Leuven
• Supporting young researcher
• Dance and movement therapy
• Play, creativity, and flow

and so much more...

Find out more about Stephan's dance and movement therapy work Move2Create at www.Move2Create.be (in Dutch)

Find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanmarchant/

Watch this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TJ6Ybke32V4

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This episode of Mind Your Own Revisions podcast has a special guest: Danielle De La Mare, Ph.D. (aka. the Self-Compassionate Professor).

Danielle is a career wellness coach helping academics whose work took over their lives.

In this episode, we talked about

• Danielle's burnout story
• Work addiction
• Leaving academia
• How to "check in" with yourself
• Self-care
• Self-compassion
• Coaching
• Nervous system

and so much more...

Self-Compassionate Professor: https://danielledelamare.com/

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This episode introduces my four-week online course Bounce Back from Burnout (BBfB).

More information and application here: https://www.mindyourownrevisions.com/bbfb/

BBfB is designed to kick start a paradigm shift for academics at every level so that they can prevent and/or overcome burnout no matter which stage they are on the burnout spectrum.

If you join, by the end of the four weeks, you will learn:

• WHERE you stand on the burnout spectrum
• WHY you are burned-out
• WHAT kind of support you need
• HOW you can bounce back

This four-week course is going to run once again for FREE in February 2022.

Admissions happen via application and the participants are expected to give constructive feedback during the course and a testimonial at the end. 

APPLY HERE to join this month-long experience with dozens of academics from all around the world: https://www.mindyourownrevisions.com/bbfb/

Deadline for applications is Saturday, January 29th midnight CET.

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This episode of Mind Your Own Revisions podcast has a special guest: Sally Clarke.

Sally is a wellbeing & burnout expert, coach and consultant with a passion for authenticity and connection.

We talked about

• Sally's burnout story
• Causes of burnout
• How burnout happens
• Burnout prevention at individual and structural levels
• Sally's book "Protect Your Spark"
• Self-care
• Self-worth
• Perfectionism

and so much more...

"Protect Your Spark: How to Prevent Burnout and Live Authentically" by Sally Clarke: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09HRC5GVN/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

“Burnout Can Happen to Anyone.”: https://medium.com/@salcla/burnout-can-happen-to-anyone-374101bf6f15

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