With learning workshops successfully through your studies

The workload at university is heavy. Everyone knows the stress associated with it and many have had experience with "procrastination". You have had enough of feeling permanently exhausted, of barely being able to finish work or only being able to do so with night shifts; of having no free time before exams and of feeling exam nerves. You want to change something.

Consciously dealing with time and using methods and techniques for effective time management helps to cope with the workload.

Trainer: Dr. Stephanie Hann (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 19.04.2023, 09:00 – 17:00 
Format: One-day classroom Workshop
Registration: TUMonline

This online course allows you to reflect on and optimize your self-management throughout the semester. Based on eight expert lectures (video inputs of approximately 30-40 minutes), you will deal compactly with topics that are particularly important for the beneficial organization of your everyday learning and successful exam preparation, such as planning learning, motivation, and stress management.

Self-learning materials support you in transferring the knowledge gained from the videos to your learning and working behavior. Once a week, you will meet personally with a learning and exam coach and other students in an online meeting (1.5 hours) to share your experiences, find solutions to any obstacles together, and reflect on your progress.

Trainers: Bettina Hafner, Ursula Kronenberger, Raphael Müller-Hotop, Tatjana Reichhart, Mirjam Uchronski, Barbara Vierthaler (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 26.04.2023, 16:00 – 17:30 
Format: Multi-part online seminar with weekly one-and-a-half-hour webinars
Registration: TUMonline

Even during our studies, we are exposed to high performance and time pressure. For this reason, it is important to learn effective strategies to

• reduce nervousness and tension,

• to apply good time management,

• to know one's own stress traps and

• to keep to the relaxation phases.

All this will strengthen us for professional life and make it easier to get started.

Within each module there is the possibility to address the needs of the group and to answer questions.

Trainer: Adele Brucks (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 27.04.2023, 09:00 – 12:00 
Format: Multi-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

In order to be able to meet the diverse demands of study and work, it is worthwhile to deal with this question mentally and physically. Our posture consciously or unconsciously determines our external effect and is a decisive factor in achieving our goals. In this context, "inner" and "outer" posture cannot be separated from each other. Our own attitude and certain thought patterns are constantly reflected in our facial expression, appearance and behaviour.

Experiencing oneself and others in different attitudes, reflecting on this and getting to the bottom of one's own thought and behaviour patterns is a first step towards a successful attitude.

Trainer: Stephanie Mader (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 28.04.2023, 09:00 – 13:00
Format: Multi-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

Today I start. For sure. Or will it be tomorrow? Do you also always make good resolutions about studying or doing homework – and then fail to keep them? Welcome to the workshop. Starting today, no more procrastination. In this workshop you will find out what the reasons are that you are always late or don't get started at all. You will test yourself, develop your individual, successful work strategy with modern coaching tools and thus finally achieve your goals.

Trainer: Ursula Kronenberger (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 04.05.2023, 13:00 – 18:00 
Format: Multi-part seminar
Registration: TUMonline

Imagine that tomorrow is an important exam - and you can easily get through it. Although exams always cause you stress and sleepless nights.

In this workshop, we will help you find the right exam strategy for you. You will learn how to best prepare yourself according to the latest scientific findings and how to relax at the decisive moment and reproduce your knowledge precisely and comprehensively. Using modern coaching techniques, we will transform your own doubts into a success story. This coaching workshop is aimed at students who want more composure in exam situations and want to complete their studies with good results.

Trainers: Bettina Hafner & Ursula Kronenberger (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 05.05.2023, 13:00 – 19:00 
Format: Multi-part online seminar and two classroom meetings
Registration: TUMonline

Studying brings with it a variety of challenges and often leads to uncertainty and stress. For a few students, it even leads to boredom. Students who increasingly experience a combination of flow and relaxation are significantly more efficient and enjoy a more positive attitude. Therefore, it is helpful to know and consciously create the individual flow state - that is the state in which a positive, fulfilling immersion in learning or one's own work occurs. You can then tackle difficult challenges in your studies or work in a more committed and active way. In the seminar you will learn to recognise your own motivational patterns so that your performance improves. The acquisition of appropriate break management is also indispensable for this purpose.

Trainer: Dr. Maria Miller (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 12.05.2023, 09:00 – 13:00
Format: Multi-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

In addition to organisational skills, self-management skills are also required to manage everyday study life: How can I motivate myself, how do I set goals so that I can achieve them, how do I deal with stress? In a nutshell: How do I organise my studies in a way that I remain motivated, efficient and healthy?

Main focus of the course: 

• Communication skills 
• Confidence in one's own ability to learn (growth mindset)
• Lernability (personal learning strategies and -routines)
• Learning hacks (learning- and time management)
• Development of an individual learning plan

Questions that accompany the course:

• How and when do I learn best individually?
• What inner attitude helps to avoid over- and under-challenging?
• What helps to stay motivated to study?
• What is the vision until graduation?
• What is the individual formula for a "successful study"?
• Why learn and study? Why this subject?

Trainer: Rike Zeus (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 26.06.2023, 09:00 – 17:00 
Format: Multi-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

This course is aimed at all students who are not yet used to presenting themselves and their content freely and unbiasedly in front of others. The participants should gain an awareness of their own impact of their appearance and learn action strategies to congruently adjust inner and outer attitude. The course is meant to be an offer to try out oneself in an uncensored and free way with the help of exercises and elements from improvisational theater and body work.

Improvisational theater means to get in motion, to be quick-witted and to surprise yourself. For this, roles are created, characters are slipped into, stories are invented, absurd things are claimed - all methods to get in touch with oneself, one's own body and the person opposite. Bodywork helps to sharpen and change one's own awareness of the effect.

Trainer: Veronika Molin (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 28.06.2023, 09:00 – 17:00 
Format: Two-part classroom seminar 
Registration: TUMonline

Top performance can be learned. Anyone can prepare confidently and stress-free and present authentically.

“I lack the talent for this” is what most people say when asked to present themselves in a job interview, moderate a roundtable discussion or give a presentation. It doesn't have to be that way! You have a choice.

You'll learn how to skillfully manage your body, thoughts, behavior and emotions. With practical exercises and immediately applicable scientifically based action strategies, you will learn to control your physiological and mental activation and to inoculate yourself against stress. If you prepare yourself adequately, you will act more confidently and convince with your performance, even when all eyes are on you.

Trainer: Prof. Dr. Adina Mornell (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: 29.06.2023, 14:00 – 20:00 
Format: Two-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

The transition from school to university can be challenging. That's why ProLehre has developed a support programme especially for first-semester students to help you get through your first semester at university.  In this Moodle self-study course, you will find helpful materials about learning in the first semester. You can enrol yourself in the course and learn at your own pace with the materials. Click here to go to the Electronic Learning Coach.

OPEN vhb courses are open online courses offered by the Bavarian universities that can be used free of charge by anyone interested. These offers also provide you with helpful information on topics such as self-regulated learning, motivation, emotional competence, resilience or stress management, among others.

These are non-curricular courses, i.e. ECTS credits cannot be earned here. It is not necessary to be enrolled at a university to register. All you need is a stable internet connection and registration at open.vhb.org/login. Once you have registered, you can start learning: All current courses remain available for at least five years and do not have to be completed in a set time. You can join a course at any time, you also determine your own learning pace. More information at https://open.vhb.org/