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Mindset Matters: Understanding the Inner Dynamics of Personal Leadership & Learning

In a world where knowledge quickly becomes outdated, the ability to learn effectively is one of the most essential leadership skills. This course helps you understand the psychological foundations of learning and shows how your beliefs, values, and emotions shape the way you engage with new challenges.

    General

    Specific knowledge and skills quickly become outdated while the ability to learn new things stays relevant. What is required to create and maintain the necessary personal leadership and what are the challenges and misconceptions that can undermine its development? This course will unfold a four-piece model of the necessary psychological stance. 

    With these models, we will explore and illuminate the empowering mindset needed to take genuine ownership of your learning. You will discover why strategies, procedures, and methods alone can never unlock your full potential and how relying on them too heavily may limit personal growth. We will also challenge common misconceptions, such as the idea that learning is mainly about accumulating facts, that effective learning always feels comfortable, or that our emotional responses to learning are fixed.

    In this course you will gain insight in your deepest learning convictions and how they guide your experiences, choices and actions. You will discover ways to cultivate a more constructive and resilient approach to learning challenges and develop a personal leadership style that fits you.

    Learning objectives

    1. Understand the psychological dynamics that drive learning
    2. Recognize the different signs of weak and strong personal leadership
    3. Build a more constructive, motivated, and self-aware learning mindset
    4. Learn how to steer your own learning process with confidence, focus and resilience
       

    Starting date

    22 June 2026, 8:30 am
    City
    Nijmegen
    Costs
    €925
    Discount
    15% when applying before 1 April 2026
    VAT-free
    Yes
    Educational method
    On-site
    Main Language
    English
    Deadline registration
    15 May 2026, 11:59 pm
    Maximum number of participants
    30

    Factsheet

    Type of education
    Course
    Entry requirements
    We are all the pupils of life! This means that enthusiastic students as well as interested professionals are invited to join. Just be willing to have your convictions challenged!
    Study load (ECTS)
    2
    Result
    Proof of participation
    Organisation
    Radboud Summer School

    Contact information

    Radboud Summer School
    Postbus 9102
    6500 HC NIJMEGEN

    radboudsummerschool [at] ru.nl (radboudsummerschool[at]ru[dot]nl)

    timetable

    Costs

    Early bird | €787

    The deadline for our early bird application is 31 March 2026.

    Regular | €925

    The deadline for our regular application is the 15 May 2026.

    Includes

    Your course, coffee and tea during breaks, warm lunch every day, welcome dinner on Monday, Official Opening, Official Closing.

    Excludes

    Transport, accommodation, social events and other costs. 

    Discounts and scholarships

    There are discounts and scholarships available for our partners. Click below to find out if you are eligible. 

    Discounts and scholarships

    Admission

    Level of participant

    Bachelor, Advanced Bachelor, Master, PhD, Post-graduate, Postdoc, Professional.

    Admission requirements

    We are all the pupils of life! This means that enthusiastic students as well as interested professionals are invited to join. Just be willing to have your convictions challenged!

    Admission documents

    CV & Motivation letter.