Coaching for PhD students

The concept, goals and recipients of coaching

Coaching is a development tool used to activate the strengths of UMK PhD students and build new strategies of thinking and acting leading to increased effectiveness in the task and relational areas.

Individual coaching involves building a partnership-based, trust-based relationship with the client. It is focused on defining and achieving specific goals. It is based on the client's internal resources, and the methods used help to extract the talents they have in order to achieve the intended goal. Coaching is not psychotherapy, counseling, or mentoring. It is characterized by a lack of directiveness, and its goal is to create change in the client's current life.

Expected results of coaching

The effects of coaching will appear in both the personal and professional areas, helping to identify and develop existing resources. They have both an individual and organizational dimension.

Expected results in the individual dimension: increased self-confidence, development of interpersonal skills, improved work efficiency, improved balance in personal and professional life, better organization of work and personal life, better well-being and better relationships at home and at work.

Expected results in the organizational dimension of the University: fuller use of resources, increased motivation of PhD students and their involvement in their own development, increased effectiveness in scientific and teaching work, strengthened relationships between colleagues, greater creativity and openness to change.

Coaching offer

Individual coaching sessions last 60 minutes. We offer interested persons participation in a series of 6 coaching sessions (the number of sessions may be less than 6 depending on needs). Sessions are held once a week in the form of a personal meeting. In justified cases, after prior arrangement with the trainer, meetings can be held online on the TEAMS platform.

Coaching location

University Centre for Support and Personal Development
ul. Reja 25, 87-100 Toruń

Coaching schedule

Coaching meetings are held on dates individually agreed with the trainer.

Registration

People interested in participating in coaching sessions are asked to contact the trainer by e-mail in advance (afmaruszak@umk.pl) to arrange a date for the visit.

In the body of the e-mail, please provide your first and last name and the proposed date of the coaching. After sending the message, please wait for the trainer to contact you in order to arrange a coaching date.

Trainer

Furmańska-Maruszak Agnieszka zdjęcie profilowe

Agnieszka Furmańska-Maruszak, PhD - ICI coach, provocative coach, academic teacher, PhD in economic sciences. She works at the Institute of Sociology and the University Centre for Support and Personal Development at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. For over 20 years, she has been dealing with issues of people management in organisations (HRM) and the labour market. She conducts trainings on interpersonal skills. She supports academic teachers, doctoral students and university administrative staff in their development through individual coaching and group workshops. Academically and passionately observes the lives of seniors and their needs. President of Toruń University of the Third Age. An enthusiast of international cooperation of all kinds, a lover of swimming, a woman, wife and mother.

 

Terms and conditions for individual coaching sessions

  1. Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń provides free individual coaching sessions understood as a development tool for activating the strengths of UMK PhD students and building new thinking and action strategies by building a partnership-based, trust-based relationship with the client focused on defining and achieving specific goals.
  2. Individual coaching sessions are intended for Nicolaus Copernicus University PhD students.
  3. Coaching sessions last 60 minutes. The maximum number of coaching sessions in work with one client is 6 sessions.
  4. Coaching sessions take place in the form of a personal meeting. In exceptional cases, online sessions are possible using the TEAMS platform.
  5. The coach is obliged to maintain the confidentiality of the course of the session.
  6. The following topics are not worked on during coaching sessions: addictions, physical and mental violence, mental illness, mourning.
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