Tag: Higher Education
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Stress, chronic stress, or burnout?
In my first post I introduced burnout as a collection of symptoms related to sustained nervous system arousal, and highlighted reasons why burnout may be particularly common in academia. In this post, I am going to introduce the stress-burnout spectrum, with some indicators for positioning yourself on that scale, and suggest appropriate interventions for each…
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Am I tired, or is it burnout?
By far the most common topic I have been asked about has been burnout: what is it? how do we mitigate against it? how can we recover? So over the next few posts I am going to do a series on burnout, including a deeper dive into what is happening in our bodies when we…
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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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