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Grief in the Academic Process
Welcome back. In the first of a new series for 2023 I am going to explore grief, and how it might affect the academic journey. I realise this topic may sound out of synch with popular New Year culture, when everything around us is about goal setting and fresh starts (and on that subject, for…
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Understanding Procrastination…and finding compassion
Procrastination is something that we all struggle with, but in the creative life it can feel and become profoundly disabling. For academics, the discourse around procrastination is typically quite unhealthy – you are ‘lazy’, or ‘not doing well enough’, or just ‘not cut out for academia’. These kinds of comments have the unfortunate effect of…
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No one cares, work harder. Or, why I started a specialist coaching practice for academics
We all know what the problems are. Overwork, presenteeism, constant emails and reactivity, lack of resourcing for complex pastoral needs, inadequate mentoring, non-transparent hiring, ever-changing research priorities, lack of opportunities, discrimination and internal bias, precarity, failure to confront the legacies of Covid… Higher education is a mess. Despite being one of the most potentially rewarding…
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Coaching, counselling, or mentoring? Choosing the option that is right for you.
Part Two – coach, therapist, or mentor? In part one of this blog I explained what coaching is, and is not, and offered some tips for choosing a coach to work with. In this post I am going to compare coaching to the other two prominent helping models that are often offered when workplace anxiety…
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Coaching, counselling, or mentoring? Choosing the option that is right for you.
When you are experiencing challenges in your working life, especially if those challenges involve or are impacting on your mental health, it can be tricky to know where to access support. In academia, mentoring programmes or referral to occupational health or counselling are fairly common; coaching remains less so, though perhaps with the caveat that…
Beatha Coaching 