At a time when we are all permanently interconnected digitally, the line between our working life and our private life is becoming increasingly blurred. We can find a balance when both areas of our life are flexibly interlocked with each other.
At the Potsdam Science Park, many opportunities have been created to achieve this: using your lunch break for a round of sports, meditating at the nearby lake, or calmly working because you know your child is being well taken care of at the Campus Kindergarten. For the employees at the park, such things are a matter of course.
As the network hub of all the partners at the Potsdam Science Park, we help you take good care of yourself. Because a successful work-life integration requires a strong awareness of your own personal resources.
The gut is not called “the 2nd brain” for nothing.
The regulation of metabolism, food intake and emotions is a complex interplay of organs that is also influenced by our gut. This means that an altered composition of the microbiota can also influence our state of mind.
Our expert will explain how the brain interacts with the gut to support our health and how our diet can help us stay healthy and strengthen our mind.
This workshop took place on September 19, 2023. Please reach out to our contact person, if you are interested in more information.
Achtsamkeit und Meditation werden uns von allen Seiten als Allheilmittel präsentiert. Gleichzeitig gibt es jedoch viele Menschen, die trotz bester Absicht Meditieren zu lernen, nicht länger als 5 Minuten ruhig auf einem Meditationskissen sitzen können. Oder die, obwohl sie bereits seit Jahren meditieren, weiterhin mit ihrem Gedankenkarussell, selbstschädigenden Verhaltensweisen oder Depressionen kämpfen.
Der Schlüssel zum Verständnis, warum Achtsamkeitspraktiken für viele Menschen (noch) nicht funktionieren, liegt in der Rolle unseres autonomen Nervensystems für unser körperliches, geistiges und seelisches Wohlbefinden. In diesem Workshop erfahren Sie, wie Sie lernen können, still zu werden.
Dieser Workshop fand am 28. Februar 2023 statt. Bei Rückfragen melden Sie sich gern bei unserer Ansprechpartnerin.
The inclusion team of the University of Potsdam invites you to a regular inclusion café. A monthly meeting is planned at one university location each (every 3 months in Golm). In a cozy atmosphere, people with health impairments can get into conversation with others affected. The personal exchange and the experience of others can help to better cope with barriers and problems in everyday work and private life.
Registration is requested. Internationals are welcome.
Uncomplicated and at unbeatable prices: The team at the Academic Sports Center also offers massages for employees of the Potsdam Science Park (booking: status group 3). At the “Massage Knetpunkt” on the university’s campus in Golm, trained physiotherapists offer you a short relaxation phase from your daily work routine.
Please note, that not all team members will speak English fluently. A translated note about your preconditions and needs might help to enhance your experience.
Online-Training | 19. Oktober – 14. November 2023 (German)
Männer aufgepasst! In diesem Programm widmen wir uns eurer Gesundheit. Männer haben trotz besserer körperlicher Voraussetzungen eine geringere Lebenserwartung als Frauen (male female health paradox). Die Gründe liegen in einer erhöhten Risikobereitschaft, rücksichtsloserem Umgang mit dem eigenen Körper und dem Einfluss von traditionellen Rollenbildern.
In diesem, speziell auf männliche Themen/Bedürfnisse zugeschnittenem, Programm erhältst Du interessante Informationen zu mentaler und körperlicher Gesundheit, Arbeitsgesundheit oder Ernährungsverhalten. Zu allen Themen bekommst Du Lösungsansätze für Deine langanhaltende Gesundheit und Prävention von Krankheiten.
„Frauen sind keine kleinen Männer“. Endlich wird dieser physiologischen Tatsache auch in der Medizin und im Sport Beachtung geschenkt.
In unserem Workshop lernen Sie, wie ein normaler Zyklus funktioniert, welche Zyklusstörungen (gerade auch im Sport) auftreten und wodurch sie verursacht werden, was bei der Auswahl der Kontrazeptionsmethode im Zusammenhang mit Sport zu beachten ist, welchen Einfluss Ihr Zyklus und Ihre (hormonellen) Verhütungsmethoden auf ihre sportliche Leistungsfähigkeit und ihre Trainierbarkeit haben und wie sie ihren Zyklus monitoren können.
Achten sie auf ihren Zyklus und die damit verbundenen Schwankungen in ihrer Befindlichkeit. Dieses Wissen ermächtigt Sie, mit Ihrem statt gegen Ihren Körper zu arbeiten und Verletzungen zu vermeiden. Ihr Zyklus ist kein notwendiges Übel, sondern ein wichtiger Gesundheitsmarker, den sie für gesundes Sporttreiben nutzen können.
Dieser Workshop fand am 13. Juni 2023 statt. Bei Rückfragen melden Sie sich gern bei unserer Ansprechpartnerin.
Stress is not the same as strain!
What one person perceives as a strong strain, another person perceives as a real motivation. How differently is stress perceived and how can you recognize that someone is overloaded?
The workshop helps to develop an awareness of stress and strain, warning signals and stress consequences in oneself and in the employees and gives recommendations and tips for and in dealing with stressed and strained employees.
This workshop took place on June 28, 2023. Please reach out to our contact person, if you are interested in more information.
Pressing deadlines, pressure to perform, making difficult decisions – employees are exposed to high demands in an ever faster changing working world.
What is the best way to navigate through everyday (work-) life and stay healthy at the same time? These are exactly the questions we address in our online workshop, which is specially prepared for employees with high stress jobs. The aim is for you to acquire basic knowledge about healthy self-leadership and to receive suggestions for successful implementation based on practical exercises.
This workshop took place on March 29, 2023. Please reach out to our contact person, if you are interested in more information.
The gut is not called “the 2nd brain” for nothing.
The regulation of metabolism, food intake and emotions is a complex interplay of organs that is also influenced by our gut. This means that an altered composition of the microbiota can also influence our state of mind.
Our expert will explain how the brain interacts with the gut to support our health and how our diet can help us stay healthy and strengthen our mind.
This workshop took place on September 19, 2023. Please reach out to our contact person, if you are interested in more information.
Möglichst lange gesund leben ist ein Wunsch vieler Menschen. Einzelnen Lebensmittel werden auch häufig besondere Anti-Aging Eigenschaften zugeschrieben, also Eigenschaften, die den biologischen Alterungsprozess hinauszögern.
In der Tat gehört die Ernährung zu den wichtigsten modifizierbaren Lebensstilfaktoren, die eine Krankheitsentstehung verzögern oder verhindern, und dadurch ein Altern in Gesundheit ermöglichen. Doch welche Ernährungsweise eignet sich am besten, um gesund zu altern? Kann der Effekt auf einzelne Nährstoffe reduziert werden oder ist das Geschehen zu komplex? Lässt sich ein Effekt auf Alterungsprozesse tatsächlich nachweisen und bedeutet dies, dass Alterung grundsätzlich aufgehalten werden kann?
Dieser Workshop fand am 26. April 2023 statt.
Bei Rückfragen melden Sie sich gern bei unserer Ansprechpartnerin.
The Academic Sports Center is our cooperation partner for more movement at Potsdam Science Park. It offers in-person sports courses as well as OnlineFlex tickets. The offer is supplemented by on-demand sports courses as well as relaxation and nutrition podcasts.
The courses are accessible to all employees at Potsdam Science Park (status group 3). Some courses are also held in English.
In order to counteract a lack of movement at the workplace and the associated musculoskeletal complaints, the Academic Sports Center has come up with something very special for employees: an active 15-minute online break during working hours.
For the first time, the Academic Sports Center offers all online courses combined in one ticket, giving you maximum flexibility. You don’t have to commit to one course a week, but can take part in 15 sports courses at different times of the day from Monday to Saturday. Depending on what you’re in the mood for, you can either relax, mobilize or work out. So put together your own individual training plan and decide for yourself when you want to take part in which course in order to achieve your personal goals.
At the Max Planck Campus Golm, with its three institutes, all employees and visiting staff members can find and use numerous sport and exercise offerings to keep fit and healthy as well as to create a counterbalance to the often stressful daily routine. These include, among other things, an outdoor fitness trail, a football and volleyball field, and an outdoor table tennis table.
Whether Pilates, football, or exercise outdoors in the fresh air, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP there are a variety of options for employees to keep themselves fit, healthy, and productive alongside their daily work routine. They can also take advantage of mobile massages.
At the University of Potsdam there are various offerings for employees to maintain and promote good health. Employees of cooperating institutions can also take advantage of selected activities upon request.
The student health management initiative “Feel Good Campus” was introduced by the Academic Sports Center of the University of Potsdam and the Techniker Krankenkasse to make studying and training at the University of Potsdam even more attractive and in particular to promote good health.
The Academic Sports Center Potsdam is Potsdam’s largest sports provider. Participants can put together their own individual programme from over 500 weekly courses in more than 100 types of sports. In addition to an extensive sports programme, the Academic Sports Center also organizes numerous events and competitions.
At the Brandenburg Main State Archive, employees can take advantage of back exercise courses, the break app “Gym-o-fizz”, and mobile massages. In the future the programme will also include health workshops. External affiliated persons can also participate in selected online activities upon request.
The Standortmanagement Golm GmbH connects all partners with each other and markets the Potsdam Science Park to the outside world. In the area of work-life integration we offer workshops in German and English for all employees on the campus.
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