Spotting the Signs: Mental Health Awareness and Support at ETH (online)

• 20.11.2025, 14:30 - 16:00

• Gottschewski,?Eva  ()

• Kursadministration,?Development & Leadership, ETH Z¨¹rich  ()

In this interactive session, which is based on the self-paced learning programme with the same name, we will deepen our learning about the mental health spectrum and discuss the challenges that you face when wanting to reach out and offer support.

The self-paced program can be booked and accessed online anytime, independently of the session. But it should be completed before registering for the session below. Use it whenever you or your colleagues need to:

• improve your understanding and awareness of mental health symptoms and issue
• support others in difficult situations to find help to improve their mental health

Access the self-paced programme: https://ethz.sharepoint.com/sites/SpottingtheSigns

Exploring your understanding of terms, common symptoms, and key signs of burnout and anxiety. We will discuss the challenges that you face when wanting to reach out and offer support to a colleague and provide a safe space to answer questions or concerns you might have in this area.

Content Mental Health at ETH:

1. What is mental health?
2. What is mental ill health and how do we know what it looks and feels like?
3. Definitions, common symptoms / presentation of burnout and anxiety.

Helping others navigate academia with their mental health in mind:

1. How to better understand our colleagues: key signs to look out for & how to ask the hard questions
2. Boundaries ¨C what is and isn¡¯t your responsibility; How to guide colleagues to relevant supports (ETH resources & outside)

• Increase our understanding and awareness of mental health symptoms and challenges.
• Overcoming uncertainties and barriers to recognizing others in need, and guiding others to seek help using existing support structures and resources to improve their mental health

All ETH employees

Desiree Dickerson, PhD https://dickersonetal.com/the-team