Failing successfully – using setbacks as opportunities

Learning from mistakes and developing personal strategies

We endeavour not to fail, both in our academic appointments and in our private lives. On the other hand, the experience of failure is part of human life. Those who broaden their view of failure open up valuable learning opportunities for personal and academic appointments. Every mistake offers the chance to rethink strategies and improve skills. Skills training is about how we can accept failure more easily, recover more quickly from setbacks and master similar situations better in the future. This skill is not only crucial for professional success, but also for personal well-being and mental health.

Lecturer

Prof Dr Clemens Hillenbrand

University of Oldenburg

Your gain in expertise

The participants ...

can identify fields of action for dealing with failure.

know the processes of emotion regulation and can apply them.

are able to develop personal strategies for dealing successfully with failure.

can use the results of resilience research to deal with failure.

Further education at a glance

Graduation

Continuing education certificate with 2 credit points

dates

Dates will follow

Scope and duration

6 weeks

Teaching format

Face-to-face workshop, preparation and follow-up online,
Practice-oriented transfer task

Prerequisites

None

Costs

300 Euro

The competence training lasts
6 weeks in total and is structured as follows:

The learning materials will be made available via our C3LLO learning platform at the start of the skills training programme. The content forms the knowledge basis for the two workshops that take place in Oldenburg. In the course of the further education programme, a transfer task must be completed, which aims to transfer what you have learned to your own professional practice.
You should allow around 60 hours for reading, workshops and the transfer task. In the online phases before and after the workshop (input and transfer), participants can distribute the work flexibly over the duration of the course.

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