Skills and Self-Empowerment Courses

The course will be offered in Italian. Please find further information at this webpage.

«In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.»
Daniel Goleman

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage one's own emotions and, at the same time,
to recognize and influence the emotions of those around us.
Emotional intelligence is an important element to possess because our brains are programmed to tap into both the rational and emotional parts, so it would be a waste not to take into account the information that emotions convey.
According to the Word Economic Forum, emotional intelligence is one of the 10 key skills for success in
the near future. A high level of emotional intelligence has a direct impact on people's performance and well-being.

What will you get from this learning journey?
- Ideas and information that can inspire insights on the topic
- A greater awareness of emotional information
- Understanding on how you can train your emotional intelligence

Main topics

- Emotional intelligence: what it is and why it is so useful to train it
- The Six Seconds’ Emotional Intelligence model
- Self awareness: emotional literacy, recognizing emotions, discovering the messages within emotions
- Self management: discovering our behavior/response patterns, exploring how we can be intentional in our communication
- Self direction: vision and sustainability of my noble goal, the power of empathy

Faculty for the course: Tania Paradiso, Otherwise

The course will be held by professor Robert Grant, emeritus professor of strategic management at Bocconi University.

Please check the dedicated webpage for all the details.

Anxiety and stress are increasingly reported (30% of population in US), burdensome and costly to individuals and wider society. In addition to the profound negative impact on individual’s wellbeing and functioning, they are associated to worsened physical health.

The aim of the course is to illustrate the physiological and psychological mechanisms underlying stress episodes or anxiety disorders. The basics of the main evidence-based treatments will be illustrated, and practical hints to manage anxiety and stress will be provided.

Calendar:

10, 17, 24 November 
6:30pm-8pm
Online

Lesson 1
Anxiety and stress: definition and underlying mechanism
Stress definition and models
Anxiety definition
Physiological underlying mechanims

Lesson 2
How to manage anxiety and stress: in theory
Psychological mechanism in Anxiety
Cognitive bias
Basics of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Lesson 3
How to manage anxiety and stress: in practice
A B C (E F ) model: examples from the course participants
Progressive muscle relaxation

Faculty for the course: Leonor Romero Lauro, MPsych, PhD Cognitive Neuroscience

How to register: Registration through yoU@B student Diary (various activity widget).

Improve your study skills and find your personal way of learning

The course is mainly addressed to international students.

Program:

Change is possible! Knowing yourself is the key to making the most of your resources and overcoming your flaws.  In this course, we will try to understand how we function as students and what study strategies we can adopt to increase our academic performance. We will address topics such as concentration, motivation, note-taking, memorization techniques and time management.

Coordinator: Milena Milani, psychologist and psychotherapist

Calendar: 15, 16 and 22 November at 6:30pm

How: in distance

How to register: Registration through yoU@B student Diary (various activity widget).

13 September 2022 at 6pm

Aula Notari

In order to have a good start to your university experience, it's critical to have certain practical information and tools that will help you get organized academically in an efficient and focused way, enhance your study methods, and assist you in the development of rewarding interpersonal relationships.

In our workshop we will address these topics to help you begin this new chapter on a positive note, and with new ideas to reflect upon. We will also focus on the topics of adaptation and adjustment, not only from an academic standpoint, but also a cultural one.

Students will also have the opportunity to listen to student ambassadors who will share their own experience.

In collaboration with the team of counselors from Campus Life — Counseling, Self-Empowerment & Wellbeing

This meeting is particularly addressed to students who have attended a secondary school abroad or an international school (in Italy or abroad). Students who have attended an Italian secondary school in Italy are invited to attend the meeting on 8 September.

Registration required through yoU@B (various activities widget) from 30 August. This opportunity is dedicated to freshers.

The course, made up fo two self-contained modules, will be held by professor Robert Grant, emeritus professor of strategic management at Bocconi University.

Please check the dedicated webpage for all the details.