Contents:

1. Review of concepts of mental health and wellness
   • What does it mean to experience wellness?
   • Personal wellbeing vs institutional wellbeing
   • Personal selfcare practices vs institutional selfcare practices
   • Experiential activity: SWOT analysis by areas (research, admin, IT)
2. Promoting a wellness culture at work:
   • Who are we and who do we want to be?
   • What’s the main institutional goal and what’s the goal of each area (research, admin, IT)?
   • What are the values and culture we want to promote as a community?
   • What are the opportunities and challenges to promoting these values?
   • Aspiration and goals vs Perfectionism and pressures
   • Experiential activity to facilitate communication between areas (research, admin, IT)
3. Consolidating structures of wellness and support
   • Values
   • Rituals and community care routines
   • Resources for wellness support, internal and external

Objectives:

1. To do a brief overview of the concepts of wellness, and emotional distress
2. To learn elements that contribute to wellness cultures at work in general
3. To explore the elements that promote or get in the way of wellness culture in this line of work and institution
4. To promote communication within and between areas (research, admin, IT)
5. To identify the values and care rituals that this work community wants to promote

Bio:

Dr. Cristina Muñiz de la Peña is a psychologist specialized in mindfulness, trauma, family-systems therapy, somatic therapy, attachment, the therapeutic alliance, and multicultural conscience. Dr. Muñiz de la Peña currently holds a private practice in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, where she provides individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy. Dr. Muñiz co-founded Terra Firma in 2013, a program focused on providing services for refugee and migrant youth and families at the Montefiore Hospital in New York, where she worked as director of mental health services. Currently, she serves as a member of the board of directors since it became its own non-for-profit organization in 2020. She has worked as professor of psychology at University at Albany, New York, and at the Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, in Spain. She’s currently part of the faculty at the Institute of Core Energetics in The Netherlands.

Contents:

1. What threatens our sense of wellness?
   • What does it mean to experience wellness?
   • Sources of anxiety, distress, and toxic stress... in the academic field?
   • Our emotions as a mind-body experience
   • How do our body and mind respond to stress?
2. How can we recover and maintain a sense of wellbeing?
   • What are ways to take care of ourselves in the midst of chaos?
   • Personal Self-care: to know and care for our needs, and boundaries
   • The role of social and emotional support: sense of belonging and community
   • Professional services and supports
     • What types of mental health services are there?
     • What’s to be expected in therapy?
     • What kinds of therapies are out there?
     • How do I pick a therapist or mental health service?
   • Barriers in the pursuit of wellness
     • Access barriers, social barriers
     • Stigma, misconceptions, and false beliefs

Objectives:

1. To review the concepts of wellness, anxiety, emotional distress, and toxic stress
2. To help participants identify signs of psychological difficulties
3. To learn different levels of intervention and self-care to attend to psychological difficulties
4. To understand the different types of mental health services available
5. To learn ways to seek out mental health services

Bio:

Dr. Cristina Muñiz de la Peña is a psychologist specialized in mindfulness, trauma, family-systems therapy, somatic therapy, attachment, the therapeutic alliance, and multicultural conscience. Dr. Muñiz de la Peña currently teaches mindfulness-based therapy at the Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR) for the Master program in Psychotherapy: Third Generation Therapies. She also holds a private practice in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, where she provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy. Prior to the pandemic, Dr. Muñiz founded and worked for 8 years as the director of mental health services at Terra Firma, a program focused on providing services for unaccompanied refugee and migrant youth at the Montefiore Hospital in New York. Currently, she serves as a member of the board of Terra Firma since it became its own non-for-profit organization in 2020.

A fundamental skill throughout the career of a researcher is to effectively present their research, a paper, a poster or a new idea to other researchers, industry, and society. Presentation skills are necessary for Ph.D. candidates to successfully defend their dissertation and for researchers to give engaging talks and effectively pitch their research ideas during conferences, poster sessions, networking events and job interviews.

This seminar talk will include advice on how to create engaging presentations, practical tips and tricks on how to structure a slide deck and a poster and practice how to best communicate research ideas.

Agenda:

• How to structure a slide deck, depending on the occasion and audience.
• How to keep the audience engaged and be confident presenting and answering questions.
• Practical tips and tricks on creating slides.
• Demo on Microsoft PowerPoint.
• How to structure and present a poster.
• Practice "elevator pitches": how to briefly pitch a research idea / project.

• 1.1. Modalities of Industrial Property (IP) protection.
• 1.2. Intellectual Property. Differences with Industrial Property.
• 1.3. What is a Patent?
• 1.4. What inventions can be protected?
• 1.5. Why protect by patent?
• 1.6. Patent holder vs. inventor. Work-related inventions.
• 1.7. Scientific article vs. Patent.
• 1.8. Use of information or knowledge contained in patents (or patent applications) of third parties.

• 2.1. Patentability requirements. Exclusions. Parts of a patent.
• 2.2. Computer-implemented inventions (patentable software).
• 2.3. Protection strategy and territorial scope.
• 2.4. Extensions and International agreements (European Patent and PCT).
• 2.5. Artificial intelligence. Patent protection.
• 2.6. Doubts and queries.

• 3.1. Precautions when using free and open-source software.
• 3.2. Procedure for the protection as a trade secret. Generation of electronic evidence.
• 3.3. Types of technology transfer agreements: licensing agreements, technology integration agreements, resale licensing agreements, codevelopment agreements.
• 3.4. The exploitation of results in the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 programme.
• 3.5. Doubts and queries.

• 4.1. Legal concept of software.
• 4.2. Software created as a collaborative work and as a collective work.
• 4.3. Software developed at enterprise level.
• 4.4. Registration of a computer programme
• 4.5. Metaverse. NFTs. Legal implications from the point of view of the protection of intangible assets.
• 4.6. Doubts and queries.