2024 Faraday ECR Conference

Harness the tools that will help you embrace self-doubt and peak your self-confidence in time for your next career challenge.

Marc Reid, PhD

Course Leader

Imposter Syndrome Masterclass

You get: ✅ 10 video lessons ✅ 9 self-paced challenges ✅ 1 live session ✅ a signed hardback copy of Marc's book ✅ an exclusive momento for course alumni... From the author of the uniquely data-driven new book on managing the so-called Imposter Syndrome comes the interactive workshop that teaches the tools you need to reframe your relationship with the feelings of being a fraud in the workplace. "You're NOT good enough......those people to whom you compare yourself are every bit as superior as you think they are.They know more than you...and they're going to find you OUT!" Sound familiar? This is how you speak to yourself when you think you're a fraud but all the hard evidence of your success says otherwise. This self-doubting, confidence-draining voice in your head is the so-called Imposter Syndrome. But you DO know enough......and as part of this community, you will connect with the others who feel as you do.You will discover the hidden histories behind the personal and professional origins of the Imposter Syndrome. From new research directed by Marc (your host), you will acquire the tools and frameworks to prevent your self-doubt from interfering with your day-to-day life and career. This is NOT an Imposter Syndrome workshop......this is the workshop that will convince you to ditch the term 'imposter syndrome' forever. Recast 'syndrome' as 'phenomenon' and build your path towards teaching others how common the imposter experience actually is.

Turn your crippling imposter experience into a career-building superpower.

Ambitious early-career scientists who feel like a fraud and want to find the community of others who feel as they do.

University graduates who want to grow their self-confidence to make the most of their first major career move.

Emerging leaders who want to level-up their ability to serve others in their team who might struggle with self-confidence.

Career-changers moving between academia and industry who worry that they don't know enough compared to those on the 'other side'.

Who is this workshop for?

What you’ll get out of this workshop

<ul><li>Critique the common terms associated with Imposter Syndrome.</li><li>Recast 'syndrome' as 'phenomenon' and build your path towards teaching others how common the imposter experience actually is.</li></ul>

Enhance your awareness of how language impacts the severity of your imposter experiences.

<ul><li>Break down all the mechanisms through which genuine imposters come to be.</li><li>Build the case against having ever labeled yourself as a phoney by investigating the psychological 'opposite' of the Imposter Syndrome.</li></ul>

Produce your case against the 'imposter' label.

<ul><li>Design a path to a productive focus on comparing you to an earlier version of yourself. </li><li>Break free from social comparisons that are holding you back by testing how your workplace metrics influence your decision-making.</li></ul>

Reframe social comparison to focus on self-improvement.

<ul><li>Deploy a subtle class of storytelling to reveal the fullness of your efforts from a hidden side of your resumé.</li><li>Write and report on your approach to turning failures into experiments. </li></ul>

A toolkit for turning repeated rejection into real opportunity.

<ul><li>Dive deep into the odds of ever being alive! </li><li>Reflect on the genealogy frameworks that will maximise your time spent on action, celebrating success, and avoiding self-sabotage.</li></ul>

Construct a productivity-enhancing approach to gratitude.

<ul><li>Devise an approach to support team members who might share their own imposter struggles.</li><li>Collaborate with your course cohort to compose an approach to supporting others who might confide in you the story of their imposter struggles.</li></ul>

Principles of leadership for when the imposter tables turn.

<ul><li>Challenging the common language of feeling like a fraud.</li><li>Unpacking the loneliness of Imposter Syndrome.</li><li>Dissecting your 'Imposter Cycle'.</li><li>Finding your individual origins of your imposter experience.</li></ul>

It's not a Syndrome

<ul><li>Mechanisms and madness behind the word 'imposter'.</li><li>The Dirty Harry Problem and Dunning-Kruger Effect.</li><li>The magic of genealogy in facing Imposter Syndrome.</li><li>Letter writing as a medium for perspective setting.</li></ul>

The Real Story of Imposters and Luck

<ul><li>Building your CV of Failures.</li><li>Relative Deprivation and the Big-Fish–Little-Pond Effect.</li><li>Frameworks of re-writing imposter experiences: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Fear Setting, and Constructed Emotion.</li></ul>

Repeated Rejection and Social Comparisons

Workshop syllabus

Our live session begins with a reflective exercise followed by a breakout session for you to learn about yourself and your cohort. Using data generated for your cohort, by your cohort, interactive exercises help you see that you're not alone in feeling like a fraud.

Part 1

A series of individual projects and peer feedback challenges introduce you to tools you need to question your relationship with the so-called Imposter Syndrome.

Part 2

By the end of the Imposter Syndrome Masterclass, you will swap your short-term self-doubt for long-term self-confidence. During the final part of the session, you will identify your strategies for how you will face every new imposter experience from here on out.

Part 3 Workshop schedule

What people are saying

Meet Marc

Workshop exercises are derived from over 5 years of Marc's book-related research.

Uniquely data-driven content

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams. Together, you will complete innovative exercises to generate insightful, anonymised data for the cohort, by the cohort.

Interactive and project-based

100% of surveyed participants in the Imposter Syndrome Masterclass highly recommended Marc as a course facilitator.

Course completed by

About this course

Get notified about the next cohort

Learn from live sessions