Keeping the balance – “Homeoffice” meets family

Everyday work and family life is getting out of the usual routines and is often already very stressful. Homeschooling, childcare, and academic work is demanding to find one's way in pandemic times. Is the new family division of labor again at mothers' expense, or can new, partnership-based forms be developed?

The online workshop's goal for participants is to reflect on their own division of labor within the family system, and how they deal with their goals and resources. For this purpose, they are offered competence-strengthening methods and support. Furthermore, the group setting has a solidarizing and relieving effect.

In this workshop, participants can analyze their resources, whether beneficial and/or harmful influences, develop opportunities to change the gendered division of labor, understand manifest and symbolic rooms, and find new ways to combine career and family work.

Participants can clarify their issues together in the group under the guidance of experienced coaches. For this purpose, workshop instruments are offered, which work with different methods (collegial case counseling, situation analysis etc.).

The setting: offers space for questions and exchange. Information on possible coping strategies as well as tools for everyday coping can be experienced.

The workshop will take place on 4 and 18 May 2021 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on both days.

Following the workshop, there will be further network meetings (probably in late June and early December). The participants will be informed about the exact dates in due time.

• Trainer: Dr. Iris Koall and Dr. Michael Tunç
• Date: 4 and 18 May 2021, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. each
• Target group: Doctoral researchers of TU Dortmund University or Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts
• Participants: max. 10
• Language: English

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