Coaching

Coaching for Postdocs

In the postdoc coaching program, postdoctoral researchers will be professionally advised, supported, and supervised. Together with professional coaches you reflect on your career development options and important decisions as well as on questions surrounding your work/life balance. It is the objective of any coaching to support you in seeking out possible answers and solutions to these questions.

Possible Topics:

Dealing with Challenges

• Clarifying and strengthening your professional identity
• Stress management, preventing burnout
• Conflict management

Strengthening Leadership Skills

• Leadership role, leadership style, and self-image

If you are interested in any of these topics, you are welcome to apply for funding for individual coaching sessions. Upon confirmation, you can arrange individual appointments with your coach. We will cover a large part of the costs for 4.5 hours of coaching and ask you to contribute 20 € per session that will be directly paid to the coach.

Target group: Coaching sessions are open to postdoctoral researchers at the University of Freiburg.

Basic Conditions

• Confidentiality: The names of coachees and the content of the coaching sessions will be treated confidentially. We do not share any information with a third party.
• Quality Management: We will send you a questionnaire at the end of the coaching, which we will ask you to fill in. That way we want to ensure that the program and the coaches are meeting your demands.

Requirements for Funding:

• Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg
• Financial contribution of 20€ per coaching session
• Evaluation of the coaching

Contact:

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with Dr. Ramona Wurst via phone (+49 761 203-6815) or email.

Registration

We kindly ask you to fill in the registration form and send it to postdocs@zv.uni-freiburg.de. You will receive a timely response to your request.

Choice of Coaches

Marieke Abram

(www.hypatia-freiburg.de, www.limberger-dilger.de)

Coaching Foci

• Philosophical counseling
• Personality development, career development, strategic development
• Conflict management, interaction with difficult personalities (narcissist, psychopath, etc.)
• Time-management
• Authentic self-marketing

Coaching Methodology

• Philosophical counseling
• Systemic coaching
• Hypno-systemic coaching
• Conflict-management

Training

• Hypnosystemic Communication (Milton H. Erickson Institut, Rottweil)
• Systemic Coaching and Change Management (INeKO - Institut an der Universität zu Köln)
• Mediation (VWA Freiburg)
• Academic Change Management (DAAD)
• Study of philosophy (Radboud Universität Nijmegen, NL)
• PhD (2017) in history of philosophy (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Experience

• PhD, scientific staff member (2010-2017), Philosophisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Post-Doc (2018-2021), Deutsches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Owner of Hypatia CMP (since 2014)
• Senior Partner (2017-2021), managing director (since 2021), Limberger+Dilger
• international experience due to schooling (IT), study (A, NL) and research visits (NL, IT, GB)
• area of expertise: management, business- and family-mediation, change-management, team-coaching and individual coaching, coaching of directors and managers, recruitment, career-coaching    

Languages

• German, Dutch, English, and Italian

Georg R. Fisch, LL.M.

 (www.fischandfriends.com)

Coaching Foci

• Career coaching; making & taking decisions
• Time & Conflict Management
• Intercultural coaching; (cross-functional) collaboration across time zones
• Leading meaningful conversations; effective meetings and “aggressive listening”
• Project Management; work/life-balance

Coaching Methodology

• Co-Active Coaching
• Relationship Systems Intelligence Coaching
• Resource-focused and resource-oriented coaching
• Self-reflection and personal responsibility

Training

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC) – accredited and certified member of the International Coach Federation (ICF)
• Alchemy: The Art and Science of Co-Facilitation; Center for Right Relationship (CRR)
• Organization and Relationship Systems Coach (ORSC); Center for Right Relationship (CRR)
• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPPC); Coaches Training Institute (CTI)
• The Leadership Circle (360) Profile (TLC); The Leadership Circle
• Attorney at Law (Germany) & Master of Laws in Comparative Law (LL.M.), USA
• High School Diploma, USA

Experience

• Coaching of individuals and teams/organizations working for and operating within global companies; focus on international and intercultural collaboration
• Coaching of “young professionals” in different professional fields (R&D, Finance, Sales & Marketing, Human Resources)
• 20+ years (people management) experience as in-house attorney in international IT companies (most recently Intel Corporation), incl. 10+ years as individual and team coach

Languages

• German & English

Dr. Dorothee Kaiser

(www.dorotheekaiser.com)

Coaching Foci

• Personal growth and career coaching
• Decision-making and overcoming personal and professional crises
• Coaching in intercultural challenging contexts
• Time management and balance of family and professional life

Methods

• Dynamic coaching approach of Co-Active-Coaching: co-creating new perspectives and solutions with the client (tools such as: visualization, creative methods, change of perspectives, embodiment)
• The “resource model of Zürich” (Zürcher Ressourcenmodell): Rediscovery of forgotten resources, reactivating the power of previous successes for empowering self-confidence
• Work with the “inner team” and the “inner criticizer” for minimizing fears, blockades and exaggerated perfectionism

Education

• 2017-2018: Formation of Leadership Development of the Coach Training Institute (CTI), Barcelona
• Since 2017: Professional Certified Coach (PCC) of the International Coach Federation (ICF)
• 2012-2013: Coaching Formation by CTI in Fürth, Certification as a Co-Active Professional Certified Coach (CPCC)
• Member of ICF Global and ICF Germany
• 2002: PHD in Spanish Linguistics, Tübingen University, Germany

Professional Experience

• Since 2013: Coaching for researchers and executives in national and international contexts, expats and expat-families
• Since 2007: Trainer for Intercultural competence at universities and companies; lecturer at Reutlingen University for Intercultural Management
• 1998-2004: Research Assistant in Romance Philology at Tübingen University
• 1994-1998 DAAD-Representative and guest lecturer in Caracas, Venezuela

Languages

German, English, Spanish and French

Please note: A majority of the coaching sessions will be conducted virtually or via phone.

Prof. Dr. Christine Lohmeier

(http://www.christinelohmeier.com/)

Coaching Foci

• Overcoming doubt and overwhelm
• Time management
• The application process
• Preparing for job interviews and hearings

Methods

• CTFAR-Model
• Holding space
• Tools derived from cognitive and positive psychology research

Education

• Certified as a coach with the Life Coach School
• Certified as a yoga and mediation instructor with the Hridaya School, Munich

Professional Experiences

• University professor
• PhD and postdoc supervisor
• In-depth knowledge of selection committees (including as an applicant, a member, head of the selection committee and external examiner)
• Worked in different international contexts

Languages

English, German

Please note: All coaching sessions will be conducted virtually or via phone.

Dr. Mirja Michalscheck

(https://www.lemon3coaching.com/)

Coaching Foci

• Good decision making: explore, prioritize, achieve your goals
• Overcoming crises, consolidate your strengths
• Time management
• Structuring and visualizing complex thoughts or situations

Methods

Systemic-solution oriented coaching, i.a. using:

• NLP Timeline: your life, your resources and your trajectory
• Affect balance: intuitive prioritization
• Tests: explore your personality, values and drivers
• The 5/5/5-model: 5 days, 5 months, 5 years projections
• Picture cards: visual summary of thoughts and feelings

Education

• Certified Systemic Coach and Change Manager (INeKO, University of Cologne)
• PhD at Wageningen University & Research (NL): Decision-making among smallholder farmers

Professional Experiences

• Individual coaching sessions
• Post Graduate course (transferable skills) on ‘intuitive decision making’ (University of Basel)
• Systemic analysis of research group (Wageningen University & Research)
• Senior consultant and project manager (7+ years) for international institutions and governments (i.a. UN FAO, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, GIZ, GIGA, USAID, CIMMYT, Mercy Corps)

Languages

English, German

apl. Prof. Dr. Karin Orth

(www.karin-orth.de)

Coaching Foci

• individual coaching sessions with researchers
• research supervision in the humanities, cultural and social studies
• crises in the research process and how to overcome them
• biographical and professional stock-taking
• balance of skills

Methods

• central to my work as coach is the individual with their concerns. The method is therefore adjusted to the coachees and their topic, as well as to their individual situation.
• trained according to the principles of “Pedaktik” in the tradition of humanist psychology and a person-centred dialogical approach
• dialogue (with the elements of listening, questions, understanding, visualising) is central to my work
• frequent use of instruments form systemic coaching, psycho drama (e.g. role play, work with constellations), biographical work (e.g. life profiles, genograms)
• questions concerning career planning and decision-making processes: use of balance of skills according to Lang-von Wins/Triebel

Education

• certified postgraduate studies “coaching and consultation” at the Akademie für wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung der Freiburger Hochschulen according to the principles of Pedaktik® (didactics of personality development for managers)
• certified balance of-skills coach at PerformPartner Munich
• certified Guided Autobiography Instructor at the University of Southern California; certified as crisis companion at the professional association for prevention and rehabilitation at the Erzdiözese Freiburg
• further training in person-centred dialogic communication and psycho drama
• teaching appointments for coaching, biography work at the University of Stuttgart, the Freiburger Akademie für wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung, the PH Freiburg
• founder of the institute for biography work and biographical studies, _ifbas (http://www.ifbas.de/index.html)
• member of the CoachingnetzWissenschaft e.V (www.coachingnetz-wissenschaft.de)
• lecturer (with a habilitation) for modern and contemporary history at the university of Freiburg, more than 25 years of professional experience in research and teaching (research interests: history of science, research funding and research policy, national socialism and the history of violence during the 20th century, biographical research, "war children", social history of the 19th century, oral history)

Professional Experience

• since 1991: historian in research and research management
• since 1997: consultation and supervision of students and young academics in history
• 2003 – 2009: voluntary engagement as companion to people in crises
• since 2009: coach for researchers, work with academics (among them PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, assistant professors, full professors in Freiburg, at the graduate school GRADE at the university of Frankfurt, and for Scimento)

Languages

German, English

Dr. Sebastian Philipp

(www.ph-coaching.org)

Coachig Foci

• professional or private conflicts and crisis
• time- and stressmanagement, work/life-balance
• decision-making and orientation
• improving self-confidence, coping with fears and pressure to perform

Methods

• systemic work
• gestalt therapy
• working with inner parts
• mindfulness-based techniques

Education

• gestalt therapy
• systemic family constellations
• Phd in systemic neuroscience (focus on: learning, neural plasticity and meditation)
• zen-training (line: „Leere Wolke“ )

Professional Experience

• coaching for adults and students since 2013
• hosting of meditation groups and workshops since 2010 (authorization by zen-master Gisela Drescher to lead zen-groups)
• postdoc in different universities, clinics and facilities from 2013 to 2017

Languages

German, English

Dr. Ulrike Schneeberg

(https://deinemonster.de/de/start-2/)

Coachig Foci

• Stress Management and Self-Care
• Career development outside of academia
• Career opportunities for humanities and social sciences graduates
• Career strategies
• Professional orientation

Methods

• Solution focus (De Shazer)
• Systemic coaching
• Non-violent communication (M. Rosenberg)
• NLP

Education

• Certified Business Trainer (Trainergemeinschaft Berlin)
• Certified Systemic Business Coach (Anette Schirmer & Partner)
• Trainer for Non-violent communication (Gabriele Seils)
• PhD in American Studies (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
• M.A. in Comparative Literature (Freie Universität zu Berlin)
• B.A. in Modern and Medieval Languages (University of Cambridge and Université de Montréal)

Professional Experience

• 1-on-1 coaching with people with a research background/ academic career, as well as people looking for a new professional direction or searching for a job
• Trainings in research institutions on the following topics: stress management, careers beyond academia, applications and job interviews, intercultural communication
• Author of Monster zähmen - Ein Übungs- und Unterhaltungsbuch für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen auf Jobsuche (Martapress: 2017)
• working experience in marketing and fundraising in two startups

Languages

German, English

PD Dr. Angelina Topan

(www.topan-personalentwicklung.de)

Coaching Foci

• career planning, professorial appointment procedures and negotiation, strategic considerations, self-management, reflection on values and meaning; team development, conflicts, management, support for change processes, time management, and work-life balance

Methods

• systemic solution-oriented coaching method
• focuses on strong points by improving and developing existing skills
• recognizes and works with successes
• focuses also on setting goals and solving problems
• an important aspect is to formulate goals in a positive manner and to respond creatively to hopes and visions for the future
• takes a coachee’s environment into consideration when looking for solutions
• my philosophy: I pursue your goals with enthusiasm – taking a structural and analytical approach that is effective and full of compassion and understanding. I believe that fairness, transparency, respect, appreciation, and communication at eye level are essential for a working relationship based on trust.
• additional methods: creative techniques, Edgar Schein’s career anchors, role plays

Education

• psychological diagnostics in coaching (Führungsakademie Baden-Württemberg)
• certified as systemic-goal-oriented coach (DBVC-zertifiziert) at the Führungsakademie Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe
• habilitation in political studies
• training and certification: „key qualifications in teaching“ at the Hamburg University for economics and politics; areas: presentation, Moderation, conversation techniques, conflict management, team development, project management (160h of courses including supervision; conducted by Prof. Claus Nowak)
• certified postgraduate studies: „teaching qualification for research and further training at the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Hochschuldidaktik, Universität Hamburg; (Prof. F. Schulz von Thun)
• PhD in political studies

Professional Experience

• since 2004, head of the Institut für Personalentwicklung und Coaching (Institute for Personnel Development and Coaching)
• many years’ experience in an academic career as an assistant professor and a research fellow (1996-2004) and since 1999 as a trainer and coach.
• I work nationwide for different academic status groups: professors, group leaders, post-docs, PhD, academic governance: managers, deans, vice-chancellors

Languages

German, English

Dr. Thomas C. Uhlendahl

(http://www.memo-u.de/)

Coaching Foci

• managers and teams from private and public sectors, research and young academics

Methods

• systemic, resource-based, oriented towards solutions
• conflict coaching

Education

• 2006: certified mediator (according to BM-guidelines)
• 2012: certified systemic business coach ( Führungsakademie Baden-Württemberg, similar to DBVC)

Professional Experience

• conflict-, team-, leadership-coaching in various sectors and with several status groups

Languages

German, English

Dr. Peter Weber

(http://www.in-tak.de)

Coaching Foci

• professional development
• decision making, crisis and stress management
• intercultural coaching, handling multicultural settings
• personality development and role-taking

Methods

• systemic and hypnosystemic approaches
• coaching with the 'inner parts or voices'
• coaching of values and mindsets
• solution focused brief coaching

Education

• Certified Systemic Business Coach (Führungsakademie Baden-Württemberg)

Professional Experience

Provided coaching services to the following:

• PhD students at the International Office (University of Freiburg)
• coaching at the International Graduate Academy (University of Freiburg)
• coaching within the framework of collegial coaching groups
• foreign medical doctors at the Freiburg International Academy (FIA)

Languages

German, English

Evaluation by Coachees

• Recommendations, speeches, suggested steps, everything was very sincere.
• [My coach] encouraged me, helped me and made me confident during my job application process, which ended up being successful in a short amount of time.