Mental health services available to students 

(Doctoral) students of the Berlin University Alliance (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) can use all of the services outlined below. 

Berlin University Alliance

• Mental health and resilience: 2-day online workshop. The focus will be on strategies to strengthen psychological stamina and resilience in situations of crisis with the goal of prevention. 
• • 4 groups = 2 German & 2 English
  • 4 assignments over the course of four weeks and 30 min "online-huddle" to connect and to reflect on the assignments
  • 1/2 day follow-up after 4 weeks 

Next dates: March/May 2022

Satellite: Mental Health - Humboldt Graduate School

• Planning the completion of your dissertation, 01. - 02.11.2021

See for upcoming events in 2022 and further information at https://www.humboldt-graduate-school.de/de/services/mental_health

Satellite: Mental Health - Dahlem Research School ´(Freie Universität Berlin)

• Selbstmanagement für Promovierende - Svenja Neupert: 24.01./25.01.2022
• Mental Health: Resilience in International Transitions for Academics Abroad - Amanda Wichert: 16.02./17.02.2022
• Selfmanagement for Early Career Researchers - Svenja Neupert: 02.05./03.05.2022
• Mental Health: Time & Activity Management, Priorisation and Mindfulness - Mark Edwards: 13.06.2022

Further information at https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/drs/offers/drs-workshops-and-courses/index.html

Satellite: Mental Health - Technische Universität Berlin

• Schluss mit Aufschieberitis (Prokrastination), 28.-29.10.2021
• Wakei-seijaku - Neue Wege für den Uni-Alltag, 05.11 & 03.12.2021
• De-stress your PhD with mindfullness, 20.01., 28.01. & 04.03.2022
• Stärke stärken - Volle Kraft voraus, 24.02.2022 
• Die Kunst, den Stress einfach (da) SEIN zu lassen 

See for further information at https://praxisblog.zewk.tu-berlin.de/herzlich-willkommen-aktuelles-aus-der-zewk/zewk-aktuell/

Self organized PhD Students initiative by students from Charité - Universitätsmedizin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Scholar Minds - Mental Health Conference 2021

Special Focus on the role of graduate schools, the integration of international students and impostor syndrome. 

The conference will be hosted online and is fee of charge.

Date: October 19, 2021

To keep updated about services and events hosted by Scholar Minds, you can subscribe to their mailing list and/or follow them on twitter. 

Further information at Scholar-minds.net

The doctoral network of the Max Planck Society runs a specific initiative on mental health:

https://www.phdnet.mpg.de/events-and-activities/mental-health

All talks from the Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) 2021 can be found on the Collective’s Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrBCKBtX_9SaJGaKgGv3eTQ/playlists

Non-profit organization created to improve mental health in academia - for academics from academics

https://dragonflymentalhealth.org/