Our connections with others affect our lives: our health, commitment, performance and wellbeing. Connecting with others can be practised and developed, just like any other skill.
How to communicate so that mistakes do not lead to conflicts? What is the role of the person giving the feedback and the one receiving the feedback? Read the blog post below by Suvi Helko, Project Specialist of Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, to find out!
Teamwork First-Aid Kit gathers tools that have proved to be useful in supporting diverse teams tackling ill-defined problems and building the foundations for successful teamwork. It is a small step toward educating game-changers who can make a team more than a sum of its parts. Undeniably, teamwork skills are among the most pivotal work-life skills that younger generation entering the workforce are expected to master.
As a teacher, are you ever frustrated and annoyed when students do not master the basic knowledge of the field you teach and the basic study skills? When they lack motivation? It's frustrating and annoying, but what could be done? As one way, you could change your own thinking with the help of compassion pedagogy.
Stress decreases our wellbeing, creativity and capacity for change. Radical Creativity team organised two embodied practices workshops to boost collective resilience and renewal. You can try the exercises with your team.
What is inclusion in the context of higher education? What kind of feedback do we get from our students? And what is the teacher's responsibility? Why is it important to foster inclusive learning culture? It's all about interaction. Pirjo Kääriäinen works as a professor at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS) and collaborates closely with the School of Chemical Engineering (CHEM). Since 2011 she has been facilitating interdisciplinary CHEMARTS collaboration together with professor Tapani Vuorinen.
Listening is a key communication skill. Listening skills are related to both professional success and personal wellbeing. Listening is more than just hearing ─ it also involves the ability to understand, remember, interpret, evaluate, and respond to what we have heard.
As a teacher, researcher and developer of leadership, I have had hundreds of opportunities over the years to support managers, supervisors, experts and students in their cooperation and development of interaction skills.
Keys To Your Wellbeing series by Oasis of Radical Wellbeing collects wellbeing materials (science-based articles, podcasts, videos, trainings and exercises) on monthly changing topics.
We can try to accept and explore difficult feelings. How? A wellbeing package for your use, produced by Aalto wellbeing professionals.
Self-compassion helps, and you can learn and practice it. A wellbeing package for your use, produced by Aalto wellbeing professionals.
Flow can also be achieved together with others! A wellbeing package for your use, produced by Aalto wellbeing professionals.
Keys to Your Wellbeing IV (2023) contributors: Suvi Helko, Merita Petäjä, Tiina Pylkkönen, Inkeri Roos-Manninen, Viivi Virtanen, Ilona Suojanen and Jari Ylitalo. Produced by Sakari Heiskanen. The quotes on these pages are course feedback from students. Read more about the course feedback survey here.
