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Course - human resources

Brainbugs

Brainbugs – a course for handling negative thinking about yourself. Now is your chance to take part in a useful and fun coping course on how your thoughts and attention affect your mood and actions.

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This course is for early-stage researchers who wants to learn more about how psychology affects us in everyday life.

The aim of the course

  • Knowledge of normal functioning and how common it is to have negative thoughts. You learn that thoughts in themselves are harmless, it's how we react to thoughts that can potentially make us sick.
     
  • Knowledge of the psychological immune system, and how it affects mental health. You also learn how to take care of the psychological immune system by creating good frameworks for yourself.
     
  • Knowledge of different brainbugs, and training in identifying them in yourself.
     
  • With the help of psychological vitamins, you learn appropriate ways to relate to your thoughts so that you can function to a greater extent, also in periods with lots of negative thoughts.

 

You can take trip 4 by the campus-bus to get to the course. Trip 4 starts at 12:00 from Haukeland Central Building.  

There will be 3 - 8 participants in the course.

Language: English