NPAW: National Designing Your Postdoc for Early-Career Postdocs

Your postdoc training is more than just research! Apply design thinking to the wicked problem of a comprehensive postdoctoral training plan and make a bold plan that amplifies your interests and values as you transition to your career of choice. The work we do together will support new perspectives, identify mentoring needs, and ensure that your individual development plan is thoughtful and balanced.

Note: there is approximately an hour of required prework for this session. You will receive details for the prework upon registration.

Professional & Academic Writing Fall

II: Professional & Academic Writing

Prerequisite: Oral Communication

Fall Session: Tuesdays, October 13 - November 17, 9:00am-11:00am

This  course on academic writing for publication focuses on learning to write coherently, clearly, and concisely. It will also include some practice in writing effective emails, letters, and short proposals. The course includes two 30-minute individual tutorials with the instructor.

Accent Reduction Fall

IV. Accent Reduction

Prerequisite: Oral Communication

Fall Session: Thursdays, October 15 - November 19, 1:00pm-3:00pm

This class helps non-native speakers to recognize and practice American English sounds, stress, and intonation patterns in order to improve comprehension and intelligibility. This is accomplished through identification of problem areas, focused practice and recording of exercises for instructor feedback.

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Oral Communication Fall B

I: Oral Communication

Fall Session B: Monday, October 5 - Thursday, October 8, 3:00pm-5:00pm

Attendance is required ALL 4 Days

This course focuses on helping students improve their oral communication skills for academic and daily life. Emphasis is on increasing confidence and fluency through realistic activities both in and out of class covering pronunciation, idiom and slang usage, active listening skills, and conversation strategies.

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Oral Communication Fall A

I: Oral Communication

Fall Session A: Monday, August 17 - Thursday, August 20, 1:00pm-3:00pm

Attendance is required ALL 4 Days

This course focuses on helping students improve their oral communication skills for academic and daily life. Emphasis is on increasing confidence and fluency through realistic activities both in and out of class covering pronunciation, idiom and slang usage, active listening skills, and conversation strategies.

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Influencing Your Emotions and Creating Restoration and Resilience in Times of Adversity

Experiencing positive emotions is important, not just in the good times, but even more so, when stress is high. In a pandemic and a time of great uncertainty, our usual routines are important, but not enough. When the typical restorative strategies aren’t available or are no longer effective, you have to be more intentional to maintain your emotional well-being.

Redefining Productivity: The Unexpected Way COVID-19 Could Change Your Life?

Yearning for the way life used to be? Predictable. Productive. Permitted to freely gather.

Although COVID-19 and the accumulative events of 2020 have taken much from us, perhaps there is something we can gain. Drawing from philosophy, neuroscience and the science of self-compassion and happiness, this interactive workshop will demystify how and why uncertainty is experienced as a strong psychological adversity and guide you in the deep self-exploration required to turn this crisis into an opportunity to live from your inherent value.

Productivity, Creativity, & Focus in a Chaotic World

Getting things done can be a challenge any day. Trying to focus during a pandemic can be particularly challenging with new stressors and schedules at play. We know there are behaviors we could change to support ourselves better, yet finding the energy and motivation during global chaos is a struggle to say the least. Be it better relationship patterns, healthier eating habits, consistent sleep, more physical activity, or breaking that addiction to social media, there are good reasons to change and good reasons to stay where we are.

Self-Compassion in Academia & Career

Struggle is part of the human experience. How we handle difficult moments can be the difference between a downward spiral of critical isolation and a confident step toward the meaningful work we want to do in the world. This 90-minute workshop includes an overview of what self-compassion is (and isn’t!); a look at current research addressing the ways self-compassion protects ambition, increases productivity, and decreases stress; and several practical tools for HOW to practice self-compassion in accessible, impactful ways.

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