Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

This course takes place at the University of Freiburg (as part of a cooperation project, see below).

You will receive impulses on how to actively tackle change, change habits and create something new. Insights into various models and methods of positive psychology will help to raise awareness of your own ability to change and strengthen your willingness to act.

Orientation is provided by Martin Seligman’s theory of well-being and the PERMA model (an acronym for Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment) derived from it. The starting point for this course are the two PERMA factors P (for positive emotions) and M (for Meaning/ Matter).

Focusing attention on these factors should enable you to:

• become more creative and open to new approaches
• strengthen problem-solving skills
• become more flexible in decision-making and adapt more easily to changing situations
• to be able to act proactively and self-determined
• aim for long-term goals and link them to personal values
• develop the willingness to grow in the face of challenges and overcome obstacles
• increase resilience and perseverance

This course is part of an EUCOR cooperation project of the Center for Key Qualifications at the University of Freiburg (ZfS UFR) in conjunction with the House of Competence at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (HoC KIT). Students from Karlsruhe can attend this event in Freiburg as part of their EUCOR mobility. Travel costs cannot be reimbursed.

Workload for ECTS:

2 ECTS: Regular participation in the course, completion of transfer tasks with subsequent written reflection (approx. 2-3 pages)

 

Lecturer:

Michael Stolle is

• since 2007: Managing Director of the House of Competence (HoC) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• previously: Research Assistant at the Institute of History; Press Officer – both at the University of Karlsruhe
• His main areas of teaching at the HoC are: Leadership, change, decision-making and shaping the future
• Outside of academia, he offers workshops on the topics: Empowered Self, Mental Health, Change Actions, Appreciation despite Conflict
• Motto for this course: “Everything could be different.”