CSI Seminar: Imposter Syndrome
October 2, 2024 @ 15:00 – 15:30 CEST
Dear Everyone,
We are excited to host a new Coaching in Science Initiative (CSI) Seminar titled: ‘Imposter Syndrome’
Imposter Syndrome is a common yet often overlooked challenge in academia, affecting scholars at every stage—from graduate students to senior faculty. Despite your accomplishments, do you often feel like you don’t belong or fear being “exposed” as a fraud? In this seminar, we will examine what imposter syndrome is, when and why it manifests, and reflect on the deeper psychological and social factors that contribute to it. We will also provide practical strategies and tools to help you cope with these feelings of self-doubt, overcome perfectionism, and reclaim your confidence.
Date: 02/10/2024
Time: 15:00 – 15:30
Zoom link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/65426414592
On-site location: Gamma 2 lunch room
We will begin with a ~ 20 min talk, held in Solna and over zoom. Then proceed with a reflection and discussion held only on-site. We encourage other sites to form watch parties, by listening in together to the talk and then hold their own discussion afterwards. Hopefully seeding many local chapters of CSI.
To help facilitate discussion and reflection, consider the following starter questions:
Awareness: where do we experience imposter syndrome in our lives?
Analysis: how do I currently interact with imposter thinking?
Alternative: how could we relate to imposter syndrome, in ourselves and others?
Action: how will knowledge of imposter thinking change my decisions going forward?
Please forward this to friends and colleagues!
Yours sincerely,
The CSI Team
Ways to keep in touch with CSI
- Visit our webpage for coaching material, access to older seminars, links to external resources and our events: https://www.thecoachinginscienceinitiative.org/
- We will also post our events in the SciLifeLab event calendar: https://www.scilifelab.se/event
- Our seminars has/will be recorded and can be watch and re-used as workshops to raise awareness on this YouTube channel, the first CSI seminar is already there: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCoachinginScienceInitiative
- If you have a scilifelab e-mail, find our channel in the scilifelab.slack.com workspace #coaching-in-science-initiative
- Reach our committee thought our e-mail: csi@scilifelab.se
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