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A Stress Management Workshop for Junior Faculty
Friday, August 5, 2016
11:15am-2:15pm
Anaheim Convention Center, 205A
Sponsored by the OB and CM Divisions
Overview
The junior faculty career stage involves managing multiple demands from research, teaching, and service domains. Accordingly, this workshop offers an innovative, skill-based opportunity for junior faculty members to understand how to manage these stressors, and in turn, find meaning from their career experiences. Workshop attendees will leave with a better understanding of skills to cope with career ups and downs, along with a toolkit to use with future experiences.
Skills Toolkit
Attendees can expect to learn skills including, but not limited to:
- Sense-making regarding the impact of stress on health and well-being (Murphy, 1996; Sonnentag & Frese, 2003)
- Harnessing emotions towards taking action and effective decision-making (Law, Wong, & Song, 2004)
- Raising self-awareness and building emotional intelligence (Goleman, 1998)
Format
Part 1. Presentations
· Payal Sharma, The Wharton School/Rutgers University. Welcome and introduction.
· Jessica Rodell, University of Georgia. Research overview: stress and stressors.
· Dana Sumpter, California State University, Long Beach. Yoga and breathwork.
· Gavin Kilduff, New York University. Outsourcing and limits.
Part 2. Panel
· Katherine DeCelles, University of Toronto
· Ingrid Fulmer, Rutgers University
· David Hofmann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
· Matthew Pearsall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
· Myeong-Gu Seo, University of Maryland, College Park
Attendees will be invited to submit real-world scenarios on which they are seeking support from senior and junior faculty panelists -- both in advance of the workshop and live the day of. The panelists will offer their perspectives as (1) having experienced themselves career stressors and developed skills and insights to cope effectively and/or (2) experts on topics related to stress management.
Part 3. Small Group Breakout Sessions w/Facilitators
· Tracy Chang, Rutgers University
· Rellie Derfler-Rozin, University of Maryland, College Park
· Joo Hun Han, Rutgers University
· Oscar Holmes IV, Rutgers University
· Sirkwoo Jin, Merrimack College
· Lisa Marchiondo, University of New Mexico
· Shimul Melwani, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
· Mandy O'Neill, George Mason University
· Naomi Rothman, Lehigh University
· Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, Babson College
The breakout sessions will offer an opportunity for attendees to reflect on and discuss the workshop content; to share their own experiences with managing stress; and to talk about ways to move forward after Academy and upon return to their jobs and lives. The goal of these sessions is to offer a smaller space in which workshop attendees can feel supported on a more personal level, and to start actually applying the skills learned in the workshop.
Pre-Registration
To facilitate a meaningful experience, pre-registration is required and capped at 50 attendees. Please visit https://secure.aom.org/PDWReg to register. The registration deadline is June 17, 2016 – after which time we will provide additional details and some brief, reflective pre-Academy "homework" for attendees to complete.
Note: The target audience for this PDW is early career junior faculty members (2-5 years out from their doctoral programs), preferably those who have already attended other PDWs on related topics such as research productivity; work-life balance; and the junior faculty experience.
Also, given the nature of topics that will be discussed during the PDW, we invite junior faculty members to attend who are prepared to share about their own experiences, to stay open-minded to dialogue that may elicit feelings of vulnerability, and to actively engage in the skills-learning component of the workshop.
Organizers
· Payal Sharma, The Wharton School/Rutgers University (payals@wharton.upenn.edu)
· Jessica Rodell, University of Georgia (jrodell@uga.edu)
· Joo Hun Han, Rutgers University (jhan@smlr.rutgers.edu)