Conquering the seminar – developing tools for personal and professional empowerment – workshop

Content

Welcome to a workshop where we will use drama and improvisation techniques to explore and practice challenging and unpredictable situations in the academic world. One such unpredictable situation might be the academic seminar, where we cannot always know exactly what will happen. In the workshop we will use a fictitious seminar as a starting point for the workshop and prepare ourselves to deal with the unexpected events that arises.

The workshop will actively build on the participants' own experiences in the academic context; what experiences do we have from facing challenging situations and how can we increase our awareness and repertoire in order to act in such situations while maintaining self-esteem? We will reflect on this together and also try different ways of acting on the unexpected.

Eva Göksel, who holds the workshop, has her PhD in drama pedagogy herself and thus has first-hand experience of what it can be like and how you sometimes need to find ways to stand up for yourself when you are challenged and questioned.

Workshop leader

Eva Göksel has a PhD from the University of Zurich, focusing on Drama in Education in teacher training. She is Swiss/Canadian and she was first inspired to work with drama-based pedagogies while completing her Masters at the University of British Columbia.

Workshop offered by

Karriär & Ledning – Career and Leadership Development Centre
Uppsala universitet – Uppsala University