MAPP Workshops 2008

The Maximising Academic and Personal Potential (MAPP) program is an academic and personal development intervention, especially designed to improve students' academic performance. It is a joint initiative of the RMIT Counselling Service and the Study and Learning Centre from the RMIT Student Services Group.

Students are able to attend the Intensive MAPP program or participate in the five individual workshops which are run for 1 hour and scheduled at different times.

Please note that you must book to attend a workshop and numbers are strictly limited. To make a booking for a workshop, please complete our booking form.

• One-day MAPP Intensive - includes all topics
• Work/Life Balance
• Active Learning and Revision
• Time Management
• Maintaining Motivation and Momentum
• Stress Management
• Creativity
• Tackling exams and exam stress effectively

One-day MAPP Intensive

This one-day intensive includes all topics in the MAPP Program: “Active Learning and Revision”; “Maintaining Motivation and Momentum; “Time Management”; “Stress Management” and “Tackling Exams and Exam Stress Effectively”

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Work/Life Balance

Achieving work/life balance is an important way to manage your day to day demands and still make time for you and the things you enjoy. Balance as a subjective feeling of fairly distributing a limited resource. For most of us, this precious resource is time! When things are out of balance, you can be at risk of academic failure, high levels of stress or anxiety, feeling compromised, feeling dissatisfied and being burnt out. This workshop will help you look at ways to better achieve balance to help you better manage your study demands.

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Active Learning and Revision

Active learning means being aware of what you know and what you don’t know, finding out what you need and taking steps to do this. In this workshop you’ll find out how to do this so you’re more likely to understand and retain information. You’ll find out what kind of learner you are and learn strategies such as mind-mapping to help you revise and to be in control of your learning. You’ll also learn how to organise your study patterns to make your revision more effective.

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Time Management

Effective time management is a key to good academic performance. This workshop will provide students the drive to prioritise and plan their schedule so that they are able to put aside quality and quantity time for studying as well as meeting assessment on the due dates. Time management is also about managing your life, studies, job and other areas in your life efficiently.

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Maintaining Motivation and Momentum

This workshop will help you understand the cycle of motivation and utilise it to your academic advantage. Through proactive thinking, commitment to goals, valuing yourself, and appreciating the challenge, the positive reward will be at your hands. This workshop will assist you in understanding how you refuel and maintain your enthusiasm in your studies until you reach your academic ambition.

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Stress Management

4 key points will be the focus of this Workshop:

• Stress is normal (and, in small doses, can aid motivation and enhance performance(
• Is managing stress all about: Massage? Sport / exercise? Bubble baths & spas? Nutritious diet? Meditation?
• Stress management is very much about perception - your perception of the stressor
• So minimising stress is about 'changing your mind', or altering your perception of the stressor.

The Workshop challenges you to apply these 4 key understandings to a University / TAFE environment.

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Creativity

This workshop will explore how to find, maintain and use your creativity effectively. Myths about creativity will be debunked and the phases of the creative process explored. The workshop will also explore specific creativity techniques, barriers and enhancers to the creative process and connecting to your own sense of creativity. For students who are struggling with their creativity or are experiencing creative blocks, this workshop is a must.

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Tackling exam and exam stress effectively

Before and during exams, do you experience increased heart rate, stress, concentration problems, or going blank? These symptoms may be part of exam anxiety. This workshop will provide students strategies to reduce exam stress and improve their academic performance.

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