| Title | Time |
|---|---|
| Overcoming Procrastination | 03.03.2026 09:00 - 17:00 (Tue) |
| Overcoming Procrastination | 04.03.2026 09:00 - 17:00 (Wed) |
| Overcoming Procrastination | 20.03.2026 14:00 - 17:00 (Fri) |
GraduateCenterLMU Workshop for Doctoral Candidates
Do you often find yourself putting off work on your dissertation? Do you prefer to tackle tasks that are more pleasant, easier to complete, and require less effort? Checking emails is a welcome distraction? Most doctoral candidates are familiar with this - and also with the accompanying feeling of constantly lagging behind, not progressing fast enough, and not getting enough done.
This workshop aims to counteract that: Participants will learn not to focus their willpower on achieving overly ambitious goals or rigid work schedules - only to end up dissatisfied for not meeting their own expectations. The goal is to develop new habits that enable a more content, productive daily life.
In addition to moving away from rigid goal-setting and toward mindful daily living, the workshop provides support in establishing new habits. It draws on a wide range of techniques from cognitive behavioural psychology.
Workshop topics:
- Recognizing and understanding one's own procrastination behavior
- Deriving satisfaction from the process rather than the outcome
- Resolving inhibitions and mental blocks
- Attitudes and techniques to facilitate habit formation
- Practical implementation and support in developing personal habits
Organization: This two-day in-person workshop is designed to help participants realign their (doctoral) routines. An online follow-up session held two weeks later provides an opportunity to address challenges encountered when applying workshop insights to everyday life and to consolidate what has been learned. Whether unsatisfactory productivity is really due to procrastination - or rather to issues with self- or time management - can be assessed with the help of this self-test: https://productivity-challenges-self-test.formr.org.
Language of Workshop: English
Target group: Doctoral candidates of LMU Munich (the number of participants is limited)
Certificate of attendance: Participants will receive a certificate of attendance from the GraduateCenterLMU.