Mind matters -blog

In our quest to bolster student well-being, we’ve adapted the well-known concept in organizational psychology – job crafting – and applied it to higher education
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The intention of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, IDAHOBIT, is to make visible the discrimination of LGBTIQA+ people and factors that still stand in the way of their equal rights. At Nyyti, we want campuses, where everyone can feel safe, seen and recognized as a valued part of the community.
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Every one of us knows what the experience of loneliness can feel like. Despite this, the experience may involve strong feelings of guilt or shame.
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We are often afraid of making the wrong choices concerning our field of education or jobs. Many people are worried about finding employment in their chosen field.
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Friendship does not get created on its own, but requires input from both parties in the relationship. In practice, this means initiative, time spent together and interest in the other party. This is true for both parties. If any of these elements are missing, the friendship will not deepen.
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Delaying, procrastination, postponing tasks. For most of us, these words have a negative feel. Procrastination is sometimes understood as not getting anything done, which definitely sounds undesirable.  So, we think it is counterproductive and that it is a weakness in us as individuals, and that we should get rid of it altogether.  
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Self-compassion is a compassionate attitude towards ourselves, especially when we’re having a hard time. Self-compassionate people talk to themselves in the same way as they would talk to a friend.
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When you move to another city to study, it’s likely that there are others who have moved, too. Even though the beginning of your studies might be the easiest time to make new friends, it’s not the only time.
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Around 75%, of mental health problems in the Finnish population, develop before the age of 25, with the onset of mental health problems potentially beginning during the student years.
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Shame is often divided into two different types: good shame and bad shame. Good shame is short-lived and guides us towards acting fairly and justly towards other people.
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Students’ Mental Health Day is on Thursday, 22 April,2021. In this year’s #HelpWorthy campaign, we tackle the obstacles for seeking help.
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It’s important to ask “How are you?” and to listen closely. Young carers’ stories are constantly being told all around us. We just have to tune our ears to hear them.
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Freedom is often mentioned as a positive aspect of the student life. With an increase in studying from home and remote teaching, students now take on even more responsibility in planning and scheduling their studies.
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Sure, there are positive aspects to studying remotely, especially for us, who are located in a different city than our higher education institutions. You can attend lectures just fine over a video connection, and seminar meetings are running without a hitch over the internet. When there’s less mandatory commuting, there’s more time to study and recover from the workload. However, I do feel that we should think of a way to incorporate more than one method for completing courses remotely in the future. Even when studying at home, people have different ways of learning.
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Being a student is sometimes like riding a train: Sometimes there’s a delay or a brief shutdown, and at other times it’s a smooth ride forward, like you would expect when heading down a ready-made track. Fortunately, the tracks can be repaired, developed, and improved for the proverbial train so that every student can have a steady and safe ride during their studies.
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It’s a professional trait that doesn’t turn a blind eye to other people in a conference room or a lecture hall, and it doesn’t look for persons who are ‘worthy’ of compassion. It encourages young people to adopt an action-oriented mutual responsibility. The starting point for pedagogy of compassion is that the compassionate agent cannot always be distinguished from the receiver of compassion.
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I graduated with a master’s degree in political sciences three years ago, in June. The change was fundamental, as I had been a student basically throughout my twenties.
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This spring has been an unusual one. These exceptional circumstances have affected all of us, some more favorably than others
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The implications of a lack of a sense of community are harsh. Anxiety, depression, study burnout, exclusion and an early death are all more common among people who feel lonely.
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If you have psychological symptoms, have mercy on yourself. Your symptoms are not your own fault.
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According to the figures from the Finnish national agency for education on student mobility in 2016, there were 295,038 students in Finnish higher education.
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