Coaching


Campus Writing Workshops (in German only)
The Campus Writing Workshops offer different formats to specifically support doctoral candidates in writing their dissertation. In addition to coaching for female doctoral candidates, workshops to teach techniques and methods in order to overcome challenges and difficulties in connection with writing are offered.

Individual coaching by the Office of Gender Affairs and Equal Opportunity
In order to support women in their further academic career, the Office offers individual coaching during the doctoral phase and directly after having obtained the doctoral degree. The offer consists of an individual coaching costs grant up to a maximum amount of EUR 1.000 per supported person for coaching with an experienced external coach.

Individual Teaching counseling (ZQ) (in German only)
The Center of Quality Assurance and Development (ZQ) offers JGU teachers individual teaching counseling and coaching that aims at improving teaching skills. This format is developed in coordination with the teachers seeking advice and supplements the teaching structure and culture of the Peer Group Coaching dedicated to individual disciplines.

Peer Group Coaching (ZQ) (in German only)
The special nature of Peer Group Coaching lies in the fact that it addresses teachers in one discipline or related disciplines. This program’s goal is to further develop teaching competences by means of university discipline-specific didactics courses as well as promote the exchange between colleagues (within one discipline as well as interdisciplinary) on teaching issues in order to meet the challenges that come with the simultaneity of individual and collective responsibility.

Psychotherapeutic Counseling Center (PBS) (in German only)
The Psychotherapeutic Counseling Center offers assistance to doctoral candidates in overcoming a writer’s block and other difficulties and supports them in several individual interviews serving to identify and overcome internal and external blocks impeding the dissertation.