„Tackle your issues“

Dear Student,

Perhaps something stresses you out? Maybe it is that you feel anxious about exams? Or are you hesitating to do certain tasks, hindering you from making progress in your study and personal life? Or do you have a hard time adapting to a new country or feel alone in times of pandemic?

The Student Advisory Service together with tutors from the Welcome Centre offer monthly peer-counselling sessions. Based on a peer-to-peer approach, it concentrates on personal exchanges and counselling on subjects such as fear of exams, anxiety related to adapting to a new country, facing discrimination or something that makes you feel uncomfortable in any shape or form.

And this is how it works: One student anonymously shares a personal story to get different perspectives and solutions on how to handle it. The story will read by the moderator to keep it confidential. Afterwards a group of peer students (Welcome Centre tutors and volunteers) will tackle the issue by bringing up different ideas on how to proceed.

Sounds interesting for you? There are different ways to join:

• Just be part by watching!
• Send us your own story and question beforehand, so we can anonymously address it. That way you give others the chance to relate to your story and learn from solutions the group might find!
• Join the Peer Counselling team by sitting with us at the „Virtual Table“ and helping others by sharing your thoughts, experiences and recommendations on the given topics.

The next Peer Counselling session will take place on the 22nd of February at 5 pm via Webex, under the broad theme solitude. One possible topic could be how to establish new contacts and socialize under the given circumstances. 

More Information here: Virtuelles Peer-Counselling