The workshop sets the focus on two key factors of success: boundaries and power, and a well-reflected resp. well-balanced attitude to both of them.

In this workshop, you

• learn how to comprehend the ‘rules of the game’ in academia, especially concerning power, hierarchy, and dependency
• get impulses how to enlarge your scope
• analyse and clarify your professional role(s)
• get impulses for boundary management and successful self-positioning within the complexity of your working group, supervisor, department, scientific community, and cooperation partners

The workshop provides a lively mixture of short presentations and impulses, training slots, and exchange.

Dr. Karin Herrmann, coach (DGSv) and counsellor, based in Stuttgart. She has an academic background in the humanities; as a literary scholar, she had been working at university for many years, from 2009 to 2015 as an assistant professor (W1) and head of an interdisciplinary team for three years. In her professional work as coach, she follows a systems psychodynamic approach. She maintains professional exchange and discourse in diverse settings in order to ensure a high quality of work. Last but not least: She is mother of an adult daughter.