| Part 5: Why be happy when you can be real? |
Here we pull everything together. Living fully and meaningfully is greater than happiness. At what cost do we chase and try to own happiness?
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Tim Knowlson |
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| Part 4: The Matryoshka Doll - is it really happiness or something else? |
Tim tries to unpack the word happiness using the metaphor of the Matryoshka Doll, and wonders how it connects to the state of our world and the transience of experience. |
Tim Knowlson |
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| Part 3: I’m a tourist in my own life |
We think about moving from spectator to actor in our own lives, away from autopilot using values and goals. |
Tim Knowlson |
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| Part 2: How do we even define happiness? Stories of the mind and the secret director |
Tim tries to define happiness and fails badly doing so. Sometimes definitions are confusing and need to be treated flexibly. Happiness as a label might not be so useful and is very contextual. |
Tim Knowlson |
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| Part 1: Introduction |
This part sets the scene and manages expectations. It introduces attention to the mind and mindset. There’s a warning about multi-tasking and treadmills.
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Tim Knowlson |
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| Episode 3 - Doing the social rounds and reflecting on loneliness |
Doing the social rounds and reflecting on loneliness |
Elizabeth Edginton |
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| Episode 2 - Finding your people |
Looking for friends and breaking the ice |
Elizabeth Edginton |
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| Episode 1 - Friends |
What do we mean by ‘friends’ and what might impact the size and composition of our friendship group? |
Elizabeth Edginton |
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| Part III – Getting Organised for Your Time Abroad (And Coming Home Afterwards) |
In this third podcast, you’ll be asked to do a bit of contingency planning in preparation for your time abroad and coming home afterwards. |
Elizabeth Edginton |
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| Part II – Preparing for Culture Shock |
This second podcast encourages you to think about the different stages of culture shock and some of the potential difficulties you might experience. |
Elizabeth Edginton |
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| Part 1 – Reflecting on Previous Experiences of Transition and Change |
The aim of this first podcast is to help you to begin to reflect on some of your thoughts and feelings about your time abroad as an Oxford undergraduate. |
Elizabeth Edginton |
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| 6: Self-Criticism |
This sixth podcast in the CBT for Low Mood series focuses on self-criticism. It looks at why we can be so critical of ourselves and when this can become a problem, and introduces three tips and tools to help you deal with unhelpful self-criticism. |
Jonathan Totman |
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| 5: Ten Tips for Coping in a Crisis |
This fifth podcast in the CBT for Low Mood series focuses on those times when you’re feeling most desperate, hopeless or overwhelmed, offering some practical suggestions for how to cope and look after yourself during a mental health crisis. |
Jonathan Totman |
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| 4: A Tool for Dealing with Worry and Rumination |
This fourth podcast focuses on two patterns of thinking that often come with low mood and depression: worry and rumination. |
Jonathan Totman |
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| 3: Rules for living (and how to break them) |
This third podcast focuses on the implicit “rules” affecting how you think and behave, helping you to spot when they’re serving you well and when they might be overly rigid or exacting. |
Jonathan Totman |
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| 2: Six troublesome thoughts and how to respond |
This second CBT podcast focuses on the "C" of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), looking at ways in which low mood and depression can affect your thinking and introducing the key cognitive techniques of thought monitoring and thought challenging. |
Jonathan Totman, Oxford University Counselling Service |
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| 1: Doing more of what matters to you |
This first episode on CBT looks at some of the ways in which low mood and depression can manifest in students, and introduces a central cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) strategy known as "behavioural activation". |
Jonathan Totman, Oxford University Counselling Service |
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