How to Learn Effectively: Master Learning and Reclaim Your Time

The Well-being Working Group invites you to an interactive workshop: How to Learn Effectively, which will take place on 11 December 2025, from 14:30 to 17:30, in room C612 in Jinonice.

Tired of spending hours over textbooks with the feeling that it just does not work? Stop struggling with ineffective cramming and discover how to study smart! This intensive and practical workshop delves straight into the psychology of learning, revealing what happens in the student’s mind during study. It offers scientifically backed techniques on how to master these mechanisms to your advantage.

Workshop Content

The workshop is designed to completely reset the approach to studying and help participants achieve better results with less effort. Key topics:

• Psychology of Learning: Understanding how memory and metacognition (learning about learning) work, and how to actively use these key mechanisms for deeper retention.
• Learning Styles: An objective look at the concepts of learning styles and how to find what truly works for the individual.
• Learning Strategies and Techniques: Introduction to methods that are scientifically proven and maximize information retention. Focusing on active study instead of passive reading.
• Deep Motivation: Principles for jump-starting and maintaining the internal study engine and long-term interest.
• Managing Procrastination: Practical tools and procedures for effectively starting work, eliminating delay, and finishing tasks.
• Emotional Regulation: Explaining why it is crucial for focus, managing exam stress, and overall study calm.
• Optimization: Tips for improving your study environment and taking care of your own well-being, because effective study starts with a well-rested mind.

About the Lecturer

The workshop is led by Kathleen Geaney, a psychologist and therapist with her own practice. In addition to therapy, she specializes in learning consultation, where she helps students and professionals orient themselves in how to work with their brain more effectively. As a lecturer who is constantly learning herself and emphasizes time efficiency, she passes on only proven and practical insights to the participants.

Who is the Workshop For? And how to get enrolled? 

For every student who wants less stress, more time for personal life, and simultaneously achieve better academic results.

If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please send an email to zuzana.kasakova@fsv.cuni.cz. In the subject line, please write “Application for the workshop: How to Learn Effectively” and in the body of the email include your first name, last name, and institute.