What is your plan to rest?
It's normal to work long hours in the first couple of weeks of semester. It is not sustainable for more than a week or two. That doesn't mean it's easy to rest. In this track I talk about why you must...
9 Okt 20206min
Asynchronous teaching and setting boundaries.
The shift to asynchronous online teaching may leave you feeling that while you are never in class, you are also never not in class. That feeling is stressful. In this track I talk about how to set bou...
7 Okt 20206min
Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars.
How do you manage your workload so you get to all the important things and still have a life outside work? How do you manage your projects so that you can feel good about the classes you teach, the ar...
18 Sep 20209min
Dealing with the loss of a physical boundary between work and home.
The pandemic has made us all hyper-aware of how much of what we’d come to tolerate as “just how things are” is actually deeply unacceptable. The pandemic has not created an impossible to resolve confl...
27 Aug 202010min
You are not broken. You don't need fixing.
This track encourages you to reconsider thinking of yourself in negative terms. You are not broken; you don't need fixing - you might just need some support. The first step is noticing the way things ...
5 Aug 20206min
Resting & recharging is preparing for the new academic year.
Taking a holiday in the summer is really important, especially if you feel like you don't have time to do so. In this track I make the case for taking at least 2 weeks and give you some tips for deali...
5 Aug 20207min
How do you think about meetings when you are planning your day/week/month?
When you are planning your week (or your day or your month) and you look over what’s already in your calendar, what is your reaction to scheduled meetings? When someone contacts you to organize a meet...
17 Juni 20209min
Are meetings really a waste of time?
If you look at what you've been doing over the day/week/month and just see "lots of meetings" it can feel like you wasted your time. Focusing on the content of the meetings rather than the meeting for...
4 Juni 20206min
