Join us at The Workaholic Detox: Practical Tools for Real Balance, an interactive PDW at AOM 2026 featuring self-assessments, reflection exercises, and practical tools for creating a more balanced academic life. Featuring insights from Allison Gabriel, Erik Gonzalez-Mule, Adaora Ubaka, and Min-Hsuan Tu.
📅 Saturday, August 1 | ⏰ 1:00–3:00 PM EDT
📍 Philadelphia Marriott Downtown: Level 4
🔗 Session link (ID:10092)
Workaholism is harmful to individuals' personal, familial, and work well-being. These detrimental effects have resulted in a scholarly emphasis on the importance of managing workaholism; yet many academics still struggle to find both meaning in work and a life outside of work. This PDW incorporates five modules that build on one another, beginning with acknowledging one's own workaholism, learning from others' experiences, and ultimately developing personalized strategies for managing one's habits. These modules integrate a panel of accomplished scholars, individual reflection activities, empirically grounded interventions, and small-group discussions. Participants will receive personalized feedback through completing a Multidimensional Workaholism Scale, engage in an evidence-based nonwork-goal reflection exercise facilitated, and work with a custom-designed Self-Work-Home Balance Tool that helps identify imbalances across core life domains. Through introspection and peer-supported problem-solving, this PDW offers a judgment-free environment for participants to explore what balance means for them and how to pursue it. We welcome all academics wary of falling victim to workaholic tendencies to join us in this attempt to rebalance our lives and shed this label and its associated pressures.
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Pascale Fricke
UNSW Sydney
Randwick NSW
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