Pre-recorded workshops
We have a large selection of pre-recorded workshops available for those unable to attend our in-person sessions.
This workshop is suitable for anybody who feels stuck or held back by their anxiety. The anxiety workshop is divided in two parts. In this workshop we will be:
- Exploring what anxiety means, the function it serves and its causes
- Understanding how anxiety works as well as what maintains it
- Investigating your own individual experience of anxiety and how it keeps you feeling stuck.
In part 2 of the anxiety workshop, we will use the information gathered from this workshop to consider alternative more helpful responses and how to practice these.
This workshop is suitable for anybody who feels stuck or held back by their anxiety. The anxiety workshop is divided in two parts. In this workshop we will be:
- Understanding the role of avoidance and how it maintains anxiety
- Exploring alternatives to avoidance and how you can practice them
- Safely habituating to anxious sensations or situations through exposure exercises
- Testing negative predictions through behavioural experiments
This workshop is suitable for anybody who feels stuck or held back by their anxiety. The anxiety workshop is divided in two parts. In this workshop we will be:
- Outlining how to manage worry
- Distinguishing between what is and is not within your control
- Investigating practical steps you can take when feeling stuck
These sessions are being delivered by Remedi, who specialise in restorative justice and victim support.
This four-session workshop programme accessible to all students, aims to help to you:
- Recognise the subtle indications of an abusive relationship
- Understand who you could talk to if you suspect or personally experience domestic abuse
- Know what you could do if you suspect or personally experience domestic abuse
- Create Empowerment And Self Efficacy
The programme is taking place over Zoom on the following dates:
Session 1: Monday 15th February at 11am
Session 2: Monday 22nd February at 11am
Session 3: Monday 1st March at 11am
Session 4: Monday 8th March at 11am
To sign-up, you simply need to email the facilitator to book your place and complete the Pre-Evaluation form. A facilitator will be in touch with the zoom link before the session.
If you have any questions about the sessions, please contact adviceandresponse@manchester.ac.uk
If you are experiencing domestic abuse right now and need support, get in touch with a confidential and specialist advisor.
We can all fall into unhelpful thinking habits, and when our way of life has changed so much since lockdown, unhelpful thinking habits can make things even worse. This recorded workshop is suitable for anybody who feels stuck or held back by their patterns of thinking. The aims and objectives are to:
- Develop a basic understanding of the interplay between thoughts, feelings and behaviour
- Recognise how some patterns of thinking are unhelpful and lead to emotions and actions that are not in our best interests
- Identify what your unhelpful thinking habits are
- Consider alternative more helpful responses and how to practice these
You may find it helpful to download the worksheet handouts which accompany this workshop from the panel on the right.
This workshop is the same as the one for students (above) but with examples more appropriate for staff.
Click here to access this recorded live workshop.
- Do you sometimes feel trapped in a limited range of responses to the demands of others?
- Do you sometimes find it difficult to express yourself?
- How do you handle criticism?
- Are you your own biggest critic?
This workshop will look briefly at the different communication styles which contrast with an assertive style: passive, passive-aggressive, aggressive. We will then look at how an assertive style can allow us to be more effective communicators and help us to find a better balance in our relationships.
This recorded workshop is full of study tips based on published research on effective study habits. It explains the science behind effective learning and advises on how to build strong memories and use your revision and study time productively.
In addition, here is a podcast with further advice on how to improve your study and here are some links:
- Are you finding PhD studies stressful?
- Are you, for example, avoiding work out of a lack of confidence?
- Or are you disengaging out of anxiety and a fear of seeking academic support?
- Are you unsure how to realistically develop as an autonomous doctoral scholar?
In this workshop we will work towards developing a deeper understanding of the particular stresses during your journey towards completing your PhD. We will also look at ways to offset the inevitable difficulties and identify ways you might be inadvertently making things more difficult for yourself. We will focus on some psychological issues specific to the PhD and examine ways of navigating them more effectively.
This recorded workshop explores how perfectionism robs us of that glow of achievement and ultimately makes us miserable. Having high standards is good but not if they make everything in life so challenging that we are exhausted before we have even started!
If you find that you are never really satisfied with your achievements, spend a lot of time procrastinating rather than working and are increasingly self-critical, then this could be the workshop for you.
You will learn:
- About the psychology of the perfectionist
- How perfectionism becomes self-defeating.
- Ways to challenge your perfectionist mindset.