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While I was away, the group continued with Catherine and Anna taking responsibility for organising meetings. We now have a new time and venue and will experiment with a new meeting format at the next meeting on Monday 16th July. This is described in an email that Catherine sent out last week, and which I've reproduced below: We had our first ...

The viability of this group as a peer learning group is about to be tested! I'm going away for a month, and 2 meetings have been scheduled during that time - so it's time for group members to take over completely. Anna has volunteered to be the contact person for the next month - so if you have any questions, want to know about meeting times etc. ...

Since the last post, we've met twice as a group. At the first of these meetings Catherine discussed some literature on self discipline, self motivation and will power. Building self discipline was discussed as being analogous to training in sports ie  use progressive goals to gradually build your self discipline. Willpower was seen as ...

It's been a long time since I first tried the (10+2)*5 technique and I love it. It really helps me get started on things I have been avoiding, because once the timer starts, I find myself in ''competition'' mode and start doing something on the task I've set myself. All those internal dialogues about how hard the task is and how overwhelming it ...

At our meeting on 23rd February, Karen brought in and discussed two articles on thesis writing that she'd found useful. These were  ''A simple approach to thesis writing'' http://bcr2.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/thesis-hints.html and ''How to write a PhD Thesis'' (http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/thesis.html). The ...

The Defeating Self Sabotage group has been meeting  since September 2006 and we have covered a lot of issues in that time. While we have a core of people who have attended most workshops, new people have joined us recently and are always welcome. Those wanting to join us will get the most out of workshops if they know how we function and what ...

Thanks for posting this Catherine. It would be good to mention it at the meeting on Friday. Krys

   The purposes of the meeting today, the first since early Dec 2006 were, first, to catch up on how everyone’s going and second, to plan how to proceed in the coming year.   The students in the group agreed that regular meetings should continue in 2007, preferably fortnightly and at least monthly. These meetings ...

The final meeting in 2006 for those taking part in the ''Defeating Self Sabotage'' workshops will be held from 2-4pm on Wednesday 13th December in Guild Seminar Room 1. The booklet that will form the basis of this workshop is attached.

There's an interesting interview you can access from Tama Lever's blog on this topic. http://myresearchspace.grs.uwa.edu.au/blogs/tamablog/archive/2006/12/01/what-s-it-like-for-families-of-postgrads.aspx