Hack your brain: Unlocking your true potential and bringing your best performance
Content
Are you struggling to juggle demanding research, strict deadlines, and the pressure to excel? Take part in this two-day workshop by Dr Karolien Notebaert (The Science and Leadership Academy) and gain insights in how to increase the potential of your brain. You will learn powerful strategies that can lead to a significant increase of cognitive performance, mental strength and general life quality. All strategies can easily be implemented in your work as researchers, and in your life in general.
Learning outcomes
Attending this workshop will lead to:
- improved self-knowledge and communication through new insights into how the brain processes information,
- insight into the personal basic needs of the brain and how they can be fulfilled for a better performance,
- understanding the neuroscience of decision making as the foundation for improved personal and professional decisions,
- insight into the neurological foundations of personality and how to increase performance through the selection of tasks that fit personality best,
- understanding and knowing how to practice self-regulation as a key to a higher (cognitive) performance.
Competences
An important part of preparing for any further professional step is becoming (more) aware of the competences you have developed and/or want to develop. In the current workshop, the following competences from the UHasselt competency overview are actively dealt with:
- personal effectiveness:
- self-development
- responsiveness to change
- stress management
- interpersonal competences:
- assertiveness
- (self-)coaching
- (self-)leadership
Practicalities
Who is it for?
- PhD students & postdocs - 12 places available
When and where?
Participation on both days is required.
- January 8, 2026 - 9:30-16:30, & January 9, 2026 - 9:30-16:00
- Campus Hasselt: Old prison, Blue room
Registration
- Registration is possible from September 25, 2025 until December 18, 2025. Register.
- As places are limited, registering does not automatically imply that you will be able to participate. You will be notified by email in due time.
- Please cancel your registration at least one week in advance in case you cannot make it (cf. cancellation & no-show policy).
Acknowledged as?
- DS BSH: category 'career management & personal development' - workshop on personal development
- DS HLS: category 'transferable skills' - one compulsory elective course
- DS ST: category 'career & personal development' - course on personal development