Studying successfully with learning workshops

“I don't have the necessary talent for it” is what most people say when they are asked to present themselves in a job interview, moderate a round table discussion or give a presentation. It doesn't have to be like that! You have a choice. Dealing successfully with stressful situations is the result of good preparation and a balance of self-confidence, ability and emotionality. Instead of relying on luck and chance, in this workshop you will learn how to transform fear into positive energy. 

You will learn how to control your body, behaviour, thoughts and feelings in pressure situations. Practical exercises and scientifically based methods will help you to control stage fright and presentation anxiety both physiologically and mentally. With the right preparation, you can appear, speak and present with confidence, even when all eyes are on you. Convince yourself and others of your knowledge and skills!

Trainer: Prof. Dr. Adina Mornell (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 23.04.2025, 17:00 – 17:45 
Format: Multi-part seminar
Registration: TUMonline

This online course allows you to reflect on and optimise 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 organisation of your everyday learning and successful exam preparation, such as planning, learning, motivation, and stress management.

Self-learning materials support you in applying the knowledge gained from the videos to your learning and working behaviour.

Once a week, you will meet face-to-face 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, and reflect on your progress.

Please note that this requires active participation with the camera turned on and your spoken contributions. Therefore, a distraction-free environment is necessary for course participation.

The online course covers the following topics:

• How do I learn correctly? Essential facts from learning theory (Bettina Hafner)
• Planning learning - My ideal weekly plan (Bettina Hafner)
• Achieving motivation and goals (Raphael Müller-Hotop)
• Training willpower strategies (Raphael Müller-Hotop)
• Dealing with stress (Dr. Tatjana Reichhart)
• Self-care during studies (Dr. Tatjana Reichhart)
• Dealing with nervousness and exam anxiety (Ursula Kronenberger)
• The last weeks and days before exams (Bettina Hafner)

Trainer: Miriam Roßmanith (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 29.04.2025, 16:00 – 17:30 
Format: Multi-part online seminar with weekly one-and-a-half-hour webinars
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 discover why you are always late or don't get started. 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: Start: 30.04.2025, 10:00 – 16:30 
Format: Online
Registration: TUMonline

Mindfulness is a well-researched approach that can help students to better cope with stress and strain and to master their studies with more serenity. At the heart of the non-religious practice is the ability to turn to the present moment and cultivate an attitude of curiosity, openness and acceptance of one's own experience.

This training introduces the conceptual foundations of the method. It offers space to learn different forms of practice (e.g. meditation, breath observation, body scans, mindful movement, exercises for self-reflection, and journaling). In addition, in the group, we will also work out ways of implementing mindfulness-based strategies for everyday study life. In this way, mindfulness can become an essential skill for the participants' resilience, their personal development and for successfully coping with their studies.

Trainer: Sabine Burkhardt (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 12.05.2025, 17:30 – 19:30
Format: Multi-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

In everyday life, we are often faced with different challenges, tasks and time pressure. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed and doubt whether we can cope with the demands and expectations. How could things be easier for us?

In this seminar, you will reflect on how you deal with everyday challenges. You will explore your personal resources and talents. You will learn strategies to activate your strengths and utilise them effectively in everyday life. Meet life's challenges with more confidence and ease in the future!

Main topics:

• Knowing your strengths - strengthening your self-worth
• Defining and discovering essential resources for success in studying and in professional life
• Accepting one's own "weaknesses" or using them constructively
• Reflecting on one's values, imprints and inner motivators
• Getting to know and expanding the seven pillars and seven keys of resilience (resistance)
• Focus on the essential - What is important, urgent and helpful for me, my task, and my goals?
• Networking

Trainer: Evelyne Mühlich (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 16.05.2025, 09:00 – 17:30
Format: Two-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

We are exposed to high performance and time pressure even during our studies. For this reason, it is essential to learn effective strategies to

• reduce nervousness and tension,

• to apply good time management skills,

• to know one's stress traps and

• to keep to the relaxation phases.

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

Within each module, there is the possibility to address the group's needs and answer questions.

Trainer: Adele Brucks (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 21.05.2025, 09:00 – 12:00 
Format: Multi-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

Studying is full of challenges: exam stress, complex tasks, self-organised learning, etc. Those who want to achieve goals in their studies and master challenges in their way need the ability to think, decide and act independently. In this seminar, which consists of 6 half-days, the participants deal with their goals, spontaneous reaction patterns and fundamental convictions (= mindset), and how they deal with motivational and emotional challenges. Based on empirical findings from psychology and scientifically founded strategies, you will train the skills to recognise connections and shape your study life goal-oriented.

Trainer: Raphael Müller-Hotop (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 22.05.2025, 09:00 – 10:30
Format: Multi-part seminar
Registration: TUMonline

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

Explore what promotes or inhibits your learning. Identifying and developing a customised learning culture is critical to studying successfully. Learning hacks - smart strategies - help you manage and persevere through the challenging learning demands.

Good communication skills are the foundation of success in your study because "only those who communicate can receive support." Guidance and exercises in interpersonal interactions (appreciation, genuineness, and empathy) reduce insecurities, promote self-initiative, and increase self-confidence.

The focus of the course includes:

• Design a personal vision for a study that charts the path for future development.
• Building confidence in one's ability to learn (growth mindset)
• Developing individual learning strategies and routines
• Application of learning hacks for effective learning and time management
• Creation of a customised learning plan
• Use of sketch notes as a pictorial protocol technique
• Development of communication skills

Trainer: Rike Zeus (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 13.06.2025, 18:00 – 18:45 
Format: Multi-part seminar
Registration: TUMonline

Whether in group projects, interactions with professors, personal relationships, or later in professional life – difficult conversations are inevitable. Many people either avoid them or approach them in an emotionally charged way. This seminar equips both local and international students with the skills to handle challenging discussions with greater empathy, confidence, and clarity.

Through practical exercises and reflection, participants will develop essential emotional selfregulation skills and learn how to navigate conflicts constructively. These competencies are invaluable not only during their studies but also for future professional success.

We will dive deeper into the following key aspects, including:

• Perception & Unconscious Patterns (Unconscious Bias, Tool for irritating intercultural situations)
• Emotional Intelligence & Self-Regulation (Amygdala Hijack, Emotional Triggers, Emotions & Needs)
• Fundamentals of Difficult Conversations & Preparation (Descriptive Language, Paraphrasing, Constructive Communication, 4-Step Preparation)

Trainers: Michelle Eberhard & Helen Schliep (Course language: English)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 16.06.2025, 09:00 – 17:30 
Format: Two-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

For a fulfilled and satisfied life, it is crucial to set goals and achieve them in an effective and efficient way. At the same time it is essential to pay attention to your own work-life-study balance in everyday life. Both aspects are important in order to be successful, healthy and happy on your personal path in life.

In this workshop, you will learn how to adapt your everyday life to your individual needs and establish efficient and resilient self-management. You will also learn how to define your personal and professional goals. Find out which project and time management techniques you can use to achieve your goals successfully and in a satisfactory manner. Your own clarity about what hinders or motivates you in achieving your goals plays just as important a role as communication with your professional and private environment.

In the seminar, you will learn various reflection exercises, management tools and creativity techniques and use the exchange with other participants to develop your own time and self-management.

Trainer: Dr. Angela Firmhofer (Course language: English)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 26.06.2025, 09:00 – 17:30 
Format: Two-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

This course invites you to discover your inner compass, reflect on it and realign it if necessary. In terms of content, we look at personal goals, the roles we live and strive for on a daily basis and our own decision-making behaviour. This way, we get to the bottom of our individual value system and find answers to these questions:

• What is valuable to me and my life?
• What values and visions guide me?
• How are my values expressed in the different roles I take on?
• In which situations do I find them particularly supportive?
• And when do they tend to inhibit my development aspirations?

In order to make these abstract topics tangible, we work with theoretical inputs, various coaching methods as well as partner and group work. After analysing and reflecting on our own goals and roles, we will work together to explore ways of actively and consciously shaping them in accordance with the underlying values. This will strengthen our motivation and satisfaction in our private and professional lives.

At the end of the course, the inner compass is strengthened by an individually harmonious metaphor that can act as an anchor for your own value system in everyday life.

Trainer: Quirin Schnack (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 04.07.2025, 09:30 – 18:00
Format: Two-part classroom seminar
Registration: TUMonline

This course is aimed at all students who have yet to be used to presenting themselves and their content freely and unbiasedly in front of others. The participants should be aware of their appearance's impact and learn action strategies to congruently adjust their inner and outer attitudes. The course is meant to be an offer to try out oneself in an uncensored and accessible way with the help of exercises and elements from improvisational theatre and bodywork.

Improvisational theatre means getting in motion, being quick-witted, and surprising 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 body and the person opposite. Bodywork helps to sharpen and change one's awareness of the effect.

Trainer: Veronika Molin (Course language: German)
Provider: Academic Coaching CST & Kontextlehre WTG
Date: Start: 16.07.2025, 09:00 – 17:30 
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/