Episode #6: "Nature: the root to academic growth!" with Dr. Maria Kramer Your Friendly Physicist and other Nerds

Dr. Maria Kramer did her Bachelor of Science and her Master of Education at the University of Hamburg, where she studied the growth conditions of radiated tortoises and developed educational trails in the nature around Hamburg. After her studies, Maria moved to Munich for her PhD at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU). There she investigated how to support the diagnostic competencies of biology teachers. Today, Maria works as a nature mental training coach, where she uses nature as an environment to help people develop new visions and learn strategies to face their next challenges. 🐢🌲🐌🍁🌍

In this episode, Maria explains how her techniques can help academics to establish sustainable boundaries, develop inner resilience, and generally improve their situation in an increasingly demanding and energy-draining academic environment. 🏞️🌄



Tune in for a fascinating journey with Maria into nature, mental training, and the underlying scientific principles. 

If you have further questions for Maria or me, feel free to drop me a short message. You can find me either on Twitter (⁠⁠@friendly_phys⁠⁠) or ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠.

 

Further resources:

More information about Maria and her Nature Mental Training can be found here:

https://www.naturmentaltraining.com

Maybe your university offers some soft-skill courses (see an example from LMU below):

https://www.peoplemanagement.uni-muenchen.de/angebot/vaprog2023/doktoranden/index.html

 

Please find here some resources (unfortunately, some of them are available in German only).

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jqoj6w1ktlxinijkm291e/h?dl=0&rlkey=m1gdv50qucc6pw8zeb0dcqsg9