Mental health webinar "Well-being: An active approach"

Desiree Dickerson on March 23, 2026
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am
Content: Maintaining well-being requires an active approach. In this webinar, we explain the concept of having
an “empty bucket”, a metaphor for the constant outpouring of ourselves into our work and the
inevitable depletion that follows.
But we CANNOT pour from an empty bucket. And our buckets do empty.
In this talk, we explore:

• The many ways that we drain our bucket day-to-day. The physical, the emotional, the mental, the social drains that we often don’t acknowledge.
• The cost of trying to achieve and excel with an empty bucket.
• Key tools that help you fill that bucket – why time doing nothing is key and how gratitude, play, and diversity can help us feel happier, both in the moment and in the long-term.

Registration: possible for scientists working at the Cologne Ageing & Biocampus (for registration link please contact dmorick[at]age.mpg.de)
Target group: PhDs, Master fellows & Postdocs
Venue: online webinar