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Navigating your role: Self-care and wellness

Indira Sultanic, Translation Studies Tanesha Walker, Counseling and Human Development Services. Navigating your role: Self-care and wellness. Objectives:. Provide an overview of the scope of the graduate student roles and responsibilities

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Navigating your role: Self-care and wellness

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  1. Indira Sultanic, Translation Studies Tanesha Walker, Counseling and Human Development Services Navigating your role: Self-care and wellness

  2. Objectives: • Provide an overview of the scope of the graduate student roles and responsibilities • Increase students’ knowledge of the importance of self-care in navigating through graduate school • Inform graduate students of existing resources and how to utilize them • Demonstrate a breathing exercise that students can do on their own

  3. Complex Conversations • Here’s a scenario…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH79UtcCbhU&feature=youtu.be

  4. Role: Student Responsibilities: • Attending Classes • Weekly Readings • Individual and Group Projects • Blackboard Blogs and Forums • Deadlines

  5. Role: Scholar Responsibilities: • Conducting research • Writing papers • Running experiments • Finding publishing opportunities • Co-authoring • Meeting publication deadlines • Preparing for the job market

  6. Role: Teaching Assistant (TA) Responsibilities: • Class Preparation • Syllabus • Teaching • Weekly Lesson Planning • Grading • Office Hours

  7. Role: Research Assistant Responsibilities: • Working on research for your professor • Helping develop research methodology • Doing research in the lab • Experiments

  8. Role: A Person With a Life! • Single/Married • Children • Pets • Hobbies • Part-time/full-time job • Expenses • Non-academic responsibilities • Etc.

  9. What is Wellness? • "...a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." - The World Health Organization. • "a conscious, self-directed and evolving process of achieving full potential." - The National Wellness Institute

  10. A Holistic Approach to Wellness • The National Wellness Institute proposes a holistic wellness model: • Six Dimensions of Wellness

  11. Self-Care • Emotional Wellness • Tuning into your emotion • Expressing emotion in a healthy way • Self-reflection and self-awareness • Physical Wellness • Sleep, exercise, and nutrition • Calming the body • Healing through movement and music

  12. Self-Care • Spiritual Wellness • Religious practices • Connecting with nature • Meditating • Intellectual/Cognitive Wellness • Curiosity in ones work • Collaborating with those from other professions • Getting involved

  13. Self-Care • Occupational Wellness • Job interest and value • Using your own talents and skills • Job satisfaction • Social Wellness • Friends and family • Peer relationships with colleagues • Attending social gatherings

  14. Useful campus resources Student Support Services • Counseling and Human Development Center • University Health Services • Psychological Services

  15. Recreation Options at Kent State Student Organizations: • Center for Student Involvement • Graduate Student Senate – Gradfest • Graduate Studies – Graduate Student Social Fitness and Wellness: • Recreation and Wellness Center

  16. Recreation in/and around Kent Restaurants, bars, live music, hike & bike trails, the Esplanade etc. • Downtown Kent Yoga in Kent: • One Love Yoga Studio • Kent Yoga National Parks: • Cuyahoga Valley National Park Museums: • Cleveland Museum of Art • Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

  17. Let’s try an exercise! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnHlB8aQp3Y

  18. References • Counseling and Human Development Services. (2014). Self-care. [PowerPoint slides]. • National Wellness Institute: http://www.nationalwellness.org • World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/

  19. Thank you for attending GSO! Feel free to contact us with any questions: Indira Sultanic – isultani@kent.edu Tanesha Walker – twalke30@kent.edu

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