NAU Graduate College
The Graduate College teaches robust skills that graduate students need in pursuing their degree and an impacting career after graduation.
2022 Professional Development Series Events
Wellness & Life Balance Series – Presented by Heather Rist, MA, LPC, CCTP – NAU Employee Assistance and Wellness
Wellness & Life Balance 1: Building Resilience and Managing Impostor Syndrome
Friday, Feb. 4 from 3:00-4:00pm
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https://nau.zoom.us/j/85496311662
Meeting ID: 854 9631 1662
Password: BEWELL
Impostor syndrome is the collection of feelings of inadequacy about one’s competence as compared to others. Perhaps you feel that “everyone” in your program is more prepared/experienced/talented than you; this is a normal feeling and felt by many graduate students and professionals alike. Resilience tools can be used to counteract this negative internal dialogue. First, we will give an overview of what is meant by wellness & life balance and define and break down the components of resilience. Then, we will explain how building resilience will help you thrive in graduate school, including showing you how resilience tools can help you reframe your thoughts surrounding impostor syndrome.
Wellness & Life Balance 2: Building Meaning and Purpose in Your Life
Thursday, Feb. 10 from 3:00-4:00pm
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https://nau.zoom.us/j/83098025009
Meeting ID: 830 9802 5009
Password: BEWELL
While individual in nature, finding meaning and purpose in life is often tied to a graduate student’s studies or research. They study what they’re passionate about, whether that’s the reproductive patterns of fungi, how people learn another language, or physical therapy exercises for pregnant women. Life’s meaning and purpose is often tied to one’s values; indeed, if we live in alignment with our values, then we often achieve inner meaning and purpose. This workshop’s goals include learning how to identify one’s values (they may be different from the ones we grew up with) and how to keep one’s values at the forefront of one’s daily life in order to find meaning and purpose.
Wellness & Life Balance 3: Completing the Stress Cycle
Wednesday, Feb. 23 from 1:00-2:00pm
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https://nau.zoom.us/j/87588139727
Meeting ID: 875 8813 9727
Password: BEWELL
Stress is the combination of a stressor (the thing that triggers a stress response) and the stress response (the cascade of hormones transmitted by the body in the face of the stressor). In this workshop, you will learn about the interaction of stressors and stress responses, how to deal with the hormones flooding the body so that you can complete the stress cycle and return to equilibrium, and how to match stress interventions with how the body is reacting to stress in a given moment.
Wellness & Life Balance 4: Building Emotional Intelligence
Monday, Feb. 28 from 4:00-5:00pm
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https://nau.zoom.us/j/82742692960
Meeting ID: 827 4269 2960
Password: BEWELL
To relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict, humans have to understand, use, and manage their emotions in positive ways. This is our emotional intelligence. This workshop aims to help you learn ways to develop emotional intelligence and pay attention to the messages that your body and mind send you so that you may live in alignment with your value system.
Information: gradcollegeoffice@nau.edu
Graduation & Thesis/Dissertation Workshop
Thursday February 24 from 3:00 – 4:00pm
As part of the Graduate College’s Professional Development Series, this interactive workshop covers the deadlines, requirements, and steps that graduate students need to follow to apply for graduation as well as all of the information needed for theses or dissertations, including the roadmap for doctoral students/master’s (thesis) students, deadlines, forms, and steps.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://nau.zoom.us/j/89026437678
Meeting ID: 890 2643 7678
Password: GC2022
3 Minute Research Presentation Competition
Information Session – Q&A : February 15, 3:00 – 4:00pm
Preliminary Heats: March 7 & 8 via Zoom(TBD)
Finals: Thursday, Mar. 31 from 3:30-5:00pm – HCCC Ballroom
Information: 3MRP@nau.edu
The Graduate Student Government Spring Poster Symposium & Conference
A spring poster symposium and conference for graduate students.
Poster Symposium: Thursday, Mar. 31 from 5:00-6:30 (following the 3MRP Finals)
Conference: April 11 10:00am via Zoom
Details: https://nau.edu/graduate-college/poster-symposium/
Information: GSGPoster@nau.edu
March is Career Month!
Various dates and times in March, many on Zoom
We will feature weekly workshops related to: managing the job market, writing a cover letter, determining the need for a resumé vs. a CV, documenting the soft skills, networking & LinkedIn, financial management of graduate school and beyond
Check back in February for the complete schedule of events for March is Career Month!
Information: gradcollegeoffice@nau.edu