Self-Care Strategies for Managing Stress and Avoiding Burnout - Staying on Track in Grad School Series

Graduate school can be both an exciting and stressful time for many students. Supporting and caring for one’s health and wellbeing is important to learning and completing your degree, as well as building professional competency. This interactive webinar will be facilitated by members of UBC Counselling Services, and focuses on managing your stress during graduate school.

Discussion includes:

• Understanding the stress response and burnout
• Identifying grad school-related stressors
• Taking stock of your own stressors and how you currently cope with them
• Identifying proactive steps and strategies to support your health and wellbeing
• Learning about health and wellbeing resources on campus and how to access them

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 skillsets 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.

Past sessions:

• January 28th, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Organizational Habits and the Keys to Consistency
• February 4th, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Waiting for Motivation? Do This Instead!

Upcoming sessions:

• 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

Jenna Borisevich (she/her), is a Registered Social Worker holding a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto. Jenna practices from a holistic, emotions-focused, narrative approach, offering a warm and compassionate space for students to safely share their experiences. In her spare time, Jenna is a lover of the arts, movement, and the outdoors - integrating these passions into her work whenever possible. 

Teresa Maynes (she/her) is a pre-doctoral intern at UBC Counselling Services and a PhD candidate in Counselling Psychology at UBC. She is a Canadian Certified Counsellor and Licensed Professional Counsellor in the state of Idaho. Her research and clinical interests are treatments for substance use disorders to promote sustained recovery, including career and vocational interventions.