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High Achiever Mindset: Separating Self-Worth from Success
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Back to IE Mental Health Awareness Month 2026: A Month of Emotions
Mon, Feb 23, 2026
4 PM – 5:30 PM (GMT+1)
MARIA DE MOLINA, 31
MM-103
Calle de María de Molina, 31, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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Details
In high-pressure academic environments, it’s easy to confuse achievement with self-worth. This reflective mental health workshop invites undergraduate and graduate students to explore how achievement culture can shape identity, anxiety, burnout, and perfectionism.
Through guided reflection and discussion, the session offers a compassionate reframe of success, encouraging students to question productivity-driven self-value and external validation. Participants will be invited to explore who they are beyond grades, performance, and constant achievement, and to reflect on healthier ways of relating to ambition and self-expectations.
This workshop is especially relevant for students who identify as high achievers, struggle with perfectionism, or feel pressure to constantly perform, but it is open to anyone interested in developing a more balanced and sustainable relationship with success.
Speakers
Susmita Rani Biswas
Psychologist
IE University
Rani Biswas is a guidance counselor at IE University, where she provides socio-emotional support to students in an international and multicultural academic setting. She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (2013) and has worked with children, adolescents, and adults across both clinical and educational contexts.
In addition to her work at IE, Rani runs a private practice offering therapy, coaching, and psychological evaluation services. Her professional interests include emotional wellbeing, identity, relationships, and how psychological care can remain human, relational, and ethically grounded in times of change and uncertainty.