Gather with Intention

This workshop aims to support researchers in making intentional, strategic decisions about gatherings to maximize the return on individual professional goals. A framework of how and what values gatherings can create will be introduced. By applying the framework to individual goals, participants will develop their own strategic approach to better seize opportunities gatherings present.

What to expect?

"Encounters let the spirit discover new path." - Unknown

Researchers spend a significant amount of time attending seminars, conferences, talks, workshops, meetings, retreats, and networking events. These gatherings are often treated as given rather than perceived as nuanced opportunities for professional development.

Gathering can be linked to various personal objectives and can create different kinds of values. Whether it’s about getting feedback or input, the development of expertise and know-how. It can be about building relationships, discovering opportunities or gaining visibility and making yourself know. Sometimes we aim at developing collaborations or securing a research visit. Throughout a professional career, different values will come into focus.

This workshop invites participants to take a step back, reflect on their current professional goals and on how gatherings can support them.

Using a practical framework, participants will explore how gatherings contribute to research success and learn to distinguish between different types of value-creation.

The goal is to support more conscious decisions about where to invest time and attention, enabling researchers to approach scientific interactions with greater intention and impact.

Why participate?

By participating in the workshop Gather with Intention, you will be able to:

• Understand different types of values that gatherings can contribute to your professional goals.

• Make intentional decisions about what opportunities to seize

• Develop personal objectives and a conscious approach to maximize value from gatherings