Having individual communication with students from different social and cultural backgrounds as well as handling different forms of interactions, such as e-mail or face-to-face conversations, can be quite challenging for professionals at TU Dresden.

The workshop is aimed at scientific and teaching staff that provides students with professional advice and support on a variety of concerns, decisions or difficulties as part of academic everyday work. It gives the participants an introduction to counselling and support and is designed to help acquire basic techniques in interpersonal communication. The workshop opens up the opportunity to share and reflect on own experiences and discuss supportive strategies with the group.

Aims: The workshop intends to let participants

• find out helpful ways of counselling students;
• reflect and enhance their strategies for supportive communication with students;
• reflect challenges of difficult interactive situations.

This workshop is held in English, but the trainer is bilingual English/German. Nevertheless, in order to get the most out of this workshop, a minimum English level of intermediate is recommended.

Methods: Theory input, group/pair work, discussions, exercises

The workload of the workshop is 8 teaching units (1 teaching unit = 45 min).

Your registration is binding and expresses that you agree with our GTC (PDF). In case of illness or altered circumstances, we kindly ask you to inform us in due time to enable participation for other interested persons. In case of sudden cancelation from 12 days before workshop, we will calculate 50 per cent and for a later cancelation, we will have to calculate 100 per cent of the cost due to our GTC. Please register by the button "Anmeldung" below.

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