Trainer: Dzifa Vode
Max. 12 participants
About the workshop:
You want to focus⎯but you feel haunted by both email inbox and calendar. You set out to be creative⎯but your brain seems to be empty or filled with distracting thoughts. You managed to carve out some free time⎯but your back pain is killing you. Getting academic writing done often feels like an impossible task.
“Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally,” says Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. In this one-day workshop we will apply the concept of mindfulness to academic writing in order to help you write in a way that is healthy for your body, mind and soul.
Learning outcomes
After the workshop, the participants
- have transferred insights from simple mindfulness techniques to their writing
- have experienced and reflected upon a mindful writing session
- had the opportunity to identify, reflect, and challenge their typical thoughts, emotions and beliefs towards academic writing
- are familiar with strategies, methods and mindsets to create healthier mindful writing conditions
Teaching methods
Interactive teaching dialogue, small group work, methods of informal/exploratory writing, mindfulness techniques
About the trainer:
Dzifa Vode, Dr. des., is the founder and Head of the Writing Center at Nuremberg Institute of Technology. Vode has 11 years of experience in the teaching of academic writing. She is an active researcher interested in (the teaching of) academic writing, writing center research and conversation analysis. She is a board member of the Gesellschaft für Schreibdidaktik und Schreibforschung (gefsus). As a writing coach and writing retreat organizer she received the 2018 Bavarian teaching award and is a long-term meditation practitioner.