Pedagogical - EN

The purpose of these three workshops is to make space for reflections, idea generation, and sharing experiences as a way to resume a sense of agency and control of our own careers and work life. Post-tenure can be both exhilarating and bewildering. As post-tenure faculty we are typically working on multiple projects, having multiple tasks, and navigating multiple relationships, which at times can make us feel like we are being pulled in a thousand directions. Creativity, dreams, and community become squeezed by a system geared toward speed, productivity, and competition. Working in academia becomes more a matter of survival than thriving, and as post-tenue academics, the struggle becomes magnified as we also have to role model ‘the good academic’ for more junior academics.  
The workshops offer an alternative to internalizing the values of the fast-paced academic system, and instead reimagining ways of creating a work-life based on our own values, stories, and aspirations. Even within a system that is geared towards constant productivity, as post-tenure faculty, we are able to craft our jobs in ways that make life as an academic intentional and meaningful to us.  The workshops are aligned with an overall idea of job crafting, a bottom-up strategy for intentionally and proactively creating a job and career that is meaningful for us individually and helping us advance in academia without overwork or overwhelm.  
The workshops take place over three days for 4 hours each day. There is no preparation, however, active participation is mandatory for all four hours each day. Participants will be requested to shut down their email inbox and silence their phones.