Aims and content of the peer coaching workshop:
Gaining clarity in a structured way, recognizing options for action and developing solutions with others who are in a similar situation - this is what the coaching workshop for scientists (in the doctoral phase) offers.
Research careers are demanding and present many personal challenges in everyday research in a wide range of subject areas:
▪ Collaboration, co-creativity and leadership
▪ Self-organization and self-management
▪ Good communication
▪ Personal development and career issues
▪ Good scientific practice.
Most academics reach a point in the course of their doctorate where they want to reflect on their own situation with others in order to find new perspectives for their development. The peer coaching workshop offers a structured framework for working on solutions for your own development issues.

Procedure, framework and methods:
At the heart of the joint work is the structured and trusting exchange with peers in a group over eight months. Around six participants form a fixed peer group that meets and works in a self-organized manner at intervals of around 4 - 6 weeks over a period of around eight months. The work is framed by a start and end workshop for personal goal setting and assessment as well as a workshop on personality and potential after 4 months. The central method is peer-to-peer coaching. After an introduction to the method, the peers advise each other independently and without a coach according to a structured process. Afterwork meetings with the coach take place every 6 - 8 weeks, in which the peer groups come together in plenary to exchange ideas and get to know other methods for differentiated group work and to receive brief content-related impulses.

Joint and individual learning in Blendend Learning:
The workshops, work in the peer groups and after-work meetings are supplemented by a media board. The media board contains videos on all content-related impulses, worksheets and links as well as further in-depth content. This enables a high degree of social connection within the group and highly individualized work to pursue one's own topics and questions. The peer groups organize their work independently. The after-work meetings take place virtually.