ORIGINS Mentoring for Women

What it is all about:

ORIGINS is setting up a mentoring programme for women!

To actively support gender equity at the Cluster we offer

• 1-to-1 mentoring
• training for interviews, self-presentation, writing, and more
• personal career advice
• casual get-togethers to exchange experience
• ... (What else are you interested in? Drop us a note!)

Mentees: all female PhD students and Postdocs linked to ORIGINS (even if indirectly)

Mentors: Permanent staff scientists of the ORIGINS Cluster

Initial situation:

"Time we take is time that gives us something." (Ernst Ferstl)

The tension between "work-life balance", meaning the combination of career and leisure time, which creates a balance, puts many people to the test / to their limits - not only the people concerned themselves, but also the social environment involved. One often finds oneself in a complex system of structural constraints, institution-specific, personal / group-related interests, private demands / expectations, and in the hectic pace of everyday life often takes too little time and peace for introspection, to reflect, question and consciously shape one's own habits, behavior patterns, sunny and shadowy sides (especially in the current situation, which is not necessarily made easier by home office).

Therefore, the following topics are the focus of the training:

• Self-management - approaching a multifaceted field.
• Self-management killers - collective and individual
• Effective self-management methods - collective and individual
• Reflection methods - consciously and self-observantly shaping life and work

Learning objectives

• Participants are familiar with methods of self-management;
• Participants are able to organize their professional and private everyday life consciously, purposefully and to their satisfaction through good self-management;
• Participants are able to derive concrete measures from the conscious reflection of self-management methods in order to increase personal effectiveness and to harmonize private and professional life more optimally;
• Participants know methods to reflect on themselves and their patterns of thinking/behavior, values, goals, desires and to draw self-careful consequences;

Work Form

Self-management and self-leadership thrive on the willingness to self-reflect and the joy of trying things out. Methodically, the training is designed in such a way that exercises, exchange and input alternate and invite the participants to actively participate and shape the process. 

• Impulses by trainer
• Group and individual work
• Moderated discussions and exchange of experiences. 
  
   

Dates: as above, ½ day means after lunch 14:00-17:00, otherwise 9:00-17:00, 2 courses, each run 1.5 days.

Venue: TUM-IAS Conference Room, Ground floor, Room 0.004

Science is (also) a women's thing
Our ORIGINS Vera Rubin Fellow Veró Errasti Díez celebrated  the UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023 in her hometown in Spain and gave a lecture to over 100 high-school students. She discussed the women's under-representation in STEM research and elucidated the educational and professional path towards research (i.e. how does one become a researcher, regardless of topic?). Then, she debunked the popular misconceptions of lack of qualification and/or lack of interest by women for STEM research using data from the UNESCO Science Report 2022. In the end she debated with the students palliation techniques, including female presence in selection committees, institutional support for maternity and positive discrimination measures.

Are you also mentoring youger peers? Let us know!