Open Life Science: helping you care for yourself and your community

Open and collaborative research is becoming increasingly important. While open practices are now required more often, research culture has not yet adapted to accommodate and recognize new ways of working. This can lead to those researchers advocating for and engaging in open and inclusive practices to become run down and maybe even burn out. Open Life Science (OLS), a 16-week online mentorship and cohort-based training, teaches Open Leadership skills that allow participants to grow and sustain communities around their projects. This presentation introduces the importance of self care and wellbeing within the OLS curriculum. It provides exercises to reflect on current care and well-being strategies for individuals and within their community or workplace.