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Hi Isabelle,
I run a session on ‘self-management’ here at Bradford which is largely a session about motivation.
It can be a bit hit and miss with attendance and I have found that it attracts students with quite widely ranging expectations about what the session will cover. Despite various iterations of the session blurb, I’ve found that students will often come expecting a bit of time-management/motivation/planning advice in the same session. I now try to include a bit of all of these things.
Key areas I cover include:
- Life goals (short-term/mid-term/long-term)
- Why people do/don’t do things (bit of Maslow and some other Humanist Psychology stuff on motivation and fear)
- Dealing with procrastination (utilises a couple of exercises drawn from ‘coaching’ literature)
- An analysis of their time (the learn-higher page on time-management can give you some ideas)
- A revisit of goals with a bit on SMART targets
You will find lots of useful stuff in Management and Psychology literature on motivation. The management stuff is a bit, well.. managerial, but it can usually be tailored to a more self-reflective frame with a bit of tweaking and the Psychology material can be used as a theoretical underpinning.
I’ve found two books really useful in particular:
‘Co-active Coaching: New skills for coaching people to success in work and life’ by Laura Whitworth et al. (lots of motivation-type reflective exercises) and;
The A-level text ‘Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour’ by Richard Gross for some nice straightforward theory on human motivation.
I hope this helps as a starter but feel free to contact me if you want more info.
Best wishes,
Mark
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From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sandra Sinfield
Sent: 01 May 2012 16:17
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Subject: Re: Workshop on 'Motivation'
thanks for sharing your workshop programme Isabelle - it looks really interesting.
I run a session on Positive thinking - which can be harnessed to Motivation - and can can send something if you like (it's also a chapter...)? Another thing that I've been offering recently is a Draw to Learn workshop - very heavily based on one from Pauline Ridley - and that is motivating in, in a different way - happy to share?
All the best,
Sandra
On 1 May 2012 12:18, Pottinger, Isabelle B <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear All,
We’re currently reviewing the Library Workshop Programme from last academic year and looking at the requests students have made for new topics. One such request was for a workshop on ‘Motivation’. While I’ve an activity that I use one-to-one with students who tell me they feel de-motivated, I can’t see how that might translate into a workshop . Has anyone a workshop on Motivation (or a related topic) that they are willing to share?
In the spirit of sharing, here’s what we deliver at the moment - Library Workshops: http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/workshops.html
Best wishes,
Isabelle
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