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Workshops and Groups
Professional, clinical staff in the Student Wellness Centre offer psychoeducational workshops and groups to provide additional support to student. Workshops and skills groups offer unique benefits and provide practical tips to increase resilience, manage stress, and develop stronger coping skills. For more information, or to give us feedback, email wellness@wlu.ca.
Please note that if there are changes to public health guidelines that disrupt our in-person schedule, our workshops will move fully online at their scheduled times. We will provide links and more information at that time.
For more information about the benefits of skills groups and workshops, read our article The Benefits of Skills Groups and Workshops.
For information about what to expect when you attend a workshop online, read about the norms and expectations of virtual workshops.
The clinical staff from the Student Wellness Centre lead a variety of skill-building psychoeducational workshops designed to manage stress and increase resilience.
For the fall 2022 semester, we are offering in-person and online (Zoom) sections for these workshops. Visit the Wellness Education program calendar for the full schedule of workshops.
Please note that if there are changes to public health guidelines that disrupt our in-person schedule, workshops will move online at their scheduled times and links will be provided.
Anxiety has us living in the future. Depressive thoughts keep us in our past. Mindfulness is the practice of living in our present moment. The goal of Mindful Mondays is to learn and use useful meditation and mindfulness skills to lower your experience of anxiety, depression, and stress.
Some of the topics this workshop will cover are:
- Breathing techniques for relaxation and focus
- Guided imagery meditation
- Progressive muscle relaxation to reduce stress and induce sleep
- Meditations of love and kindness for self-compassion.
Join Normand on Monday January 16, Monday February 13, Monday March 13, and Monday April 10, 2023 from 3 to 4 pm in person in P111 or online on Zoom.
The DBT Coping Skills workshops reviews the skills of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). Join us online on Thursdays from 3 to 4 p.m. You do not have to attend all of the sessions, but it is recommended.
Distress Tolerance
The first four workshops will review distress tolerance skills and help you learn to get through difficult situations that may be emotionally overwhelming.
Drop in on Zoom.
- January 26, 2023 - STOP and T of TIP
- February 2, 2023 - DISTRACT, Self-Soothe, IMPROVE
- February 9, 2023 - Radical Acceptance and Turn the Mind
- February 16, 2023 - Willingness and Willfulness
Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness
The last five workshops will review skills of emotional regulation and emotional effectiveness. You will learn now to get more positive and fewer negative emotions in your life and how to improve communication in your relationships. Drop in on Zoom.
- March 2, 2023 - Emotion Regulation: ABC Please
- March 9, 2023 - Emotion Regulation: Check the Facts and Opposite Action
- March 16, 2023 - Assertiveness for Various Relationships
- March 23, 2023 - Mindfulness of Others and Validation
- March 30, 2023 - Interpersonal Effectiveness: How Strongly to Ask or Say No
This workshop series runs as four sections that teach different skills and address different aspects of anxiety and depression. Join us Mondays from 3 to 4 p.m. online.
January 23 - Anxiety and Depression 101
This module will discuss some of the symptoms of anxiety and depression and help you to identify when you are experiencing them.
January 30 - Mindfulness and Self-Care
In this workshop, we will talk about what mindfulness and self-care are and strategies we can use in our day-to-day life to manage anxiety and depression symptoms.
February 6 - Taking Back Control
In this module you will learn what works, and what doesn't, in terms of behaviour that affect anxiety and depression. We will discuss the ways our behaviour impact mood and learn strategies to interrupt the cycles of anxiety or depression. Register in advance.
March 8 - Anxiety and Depression 101
This module will discuss some of the symptoms of anxiety and depression and help you to identify when you are experiencing them. Register in advance.
March 20 - Mindfulness and Self-Care
In this workshop, we will talk about what mindfulness and self-care are and strategies we can use in our day-to-day life to manage anxiety and depression symptoms. Register in advance.
Join out counsellor Maggie for weekly meditations in the wellness hub.
Need a space to breathe and connect with yourself? This is your space to do that. Maggie will lead students through a meditation with a short discussion afterwards. You can drop into any of the sessions, you do not need to attend all of them.
Dates: Every Thursday starting January 19th, 2023 from 11 to 11:45 a.m.
Location: Wellness Hub (Zen Den area), OM 206-30