These reviews are from the one or two day coaching workshops I facilitated during the three International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Astrophysics annual student retreats in Tegernsee, Germany (2017), Berlin, Germany (2018) and Granada, Spain (2019).

While I was the IMPRS student representative, I felt a sense of leadership responsibility to dig into my experiences to give back in some way to fellow PhD students. I have also offered many guided meditations at the MPIfR for fellow PhD students and I volunteered to lead a life coaching workshop for three annual IMPRS student retreats.

In 2017 I presented a theoretical and practical 10 hr workshop on Psychosynthesis and Life Coaching, ``Coaching in the Sciences", for about 40 students, revolving around what it means to be a leader, what one's values are and other group based discussions and personal reflection.

In 2018, I led a half-day coaching workshop, ``Effective mental strategies", for about 35 students. I focused here on asking my student colleagues  to look back on the past months to identify the ways they have used their time, and what behavioral change they are inspired to make based on any patterns they observe. I then asked them to focus on designing their weeks in an ideal setting to set priority to their work and life harmoniously--again followed by an action request to apply their ideal week to their life.

In 2019 I led another one day workshop for 40 students which I called,  ``Effective Coaching Techniques to Aid in Completing a PhD", which included a set of deep questioning and reflection exercises. I provided prompts such as ``Who must you become to finish your PhD?" and ``What sequence of events will allow you to overcome the challenges that confront you?".

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