Organizational Habits and Keys to Consistency - Staying on Track in Grad School Series

We need more than good intentions and resolutions to change or improve behaviours, regardless of whether it is related to your desired self-care or academic goals. Learn about the stages of behaviour change and related skills needed to move towards effective and consistent action that you can realistically maintain in order to reach your goals.

In this session you will:

• Understand some psychology of behaviour change
• Clarify what you want to change and why
• Learn how to get organized
• Learn strategies for taking action
• Learn to practice consistency in order for change to occur and be maintained in the desired direction.

This session is part of the Staying on Track Series: A 5-part framework to make change stick for good. 

Please note sessions in this series will not be recorded. Slides and resources will be posted following each session.

We are living at a time when there is no shortage of information at your fingertips for how you could be taking better care of yourself or working towards your goals. But the problem with change is rarely a case of not knowing what to do. The real challenge many of us face is doing the things that would improve our well-being or progress towards our goal with realistic planning, strategies that work, and consistency. In other words, there is a gap between knowing and doing.

In this series you will learn a few key skill sets that, when applied, will help you take better care of yourself and work towards your goals with greater consistency and ease. Although the sessions work together, they can be attended independently. Please come prepared to discuss these topics with other students (breakout rooms may be used), and engage in personal reflection. You may wish to have paper and a pen ready for these reflections.

Upcoming sessions:

• February 4th, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Waiting for Motivation? Do This Instead!
• February 26th, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Self-Care Strategies for Managing Stress and Avoiding Burnout
• March 18th, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: The Practice of Realignment, or, Getting Unstuck
• April 3rd, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Imposter Phenomenon

Facilitators

Polly Cheng (she/her), PhD is a licensed Psychologist (Quebec, BC in progress) with UBC Counselling Services. She provides individual counselling and co-facilitates the Graduate Student Support Group. She integrates her doctoral research about childhood maltreatment and emotion regulation into her clinical practice with a trauma-informed approach. She earned her doctorate in Counselling Psychology from McGill University.

Vanita Sabharwal (she/her) is a Registered Social Worker in BC with over 35 years of counselling experience, and 20+ years at UBC Counselling Services.  She works within an intersectional, anti-oppression, social justice, and trauma informed framework, that encompasses a holistic experiential approach, collaborating with others to increase awareness of themselves within their environment, their social locations, values, goals, and identities to find their voice and express their needs.