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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.
Details
In Everyday Mindfulness, you will learn and practice number of mindfulness techniques that you can use in a variety of situations in your everyday life.
Join Normand as often as you wish on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. This is a half hour long, in-person workshop that will run from September 12 to November 28, 2022. Drop in as often as you wish.
Location
Mondays at 6:30 p.m. in P111 or on Teams.
Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. in P 111 or on Teams.
DBT Coping Skills Workshops: Distress Tolerance
Starting September 15, 2022
Description: this set of 4 workshops will review distress tolerance skills from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). You do not have to attend all 4 sessions, but it is highly recommended. Join us Thursdays from 3 to 4 p.m. in P119 to learn how to get through difficult situations that may be emotionally overwhelming.
DBT Coping Skills Workshops: Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness
Starting October 20, 2022
Description: this set of 5 workshops will review skills from emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness modules from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). You do not have to attend all 5 sessions, but it is highly recommended. Join us Thursdays from 3 to 4 p.m. in P119 to learn to how to get more positive and less negative emotions in your life and how to improve your communication in relationships.
The Skill-Building Modules for Anxiety and Depression is a series of in-person workshops that will help you learn skills to manage anxiety and depression. This workshop includes four modules that will teach different skills to address different aspects of anxiety and depression.
This is a drop-in group that will run in person in P119 on Mondays from 1:30 to 2:30 pm from September 12 to November 7, 2022. We will not meet on October 10, 2022. Check here soon for the location.
September 12: Anxiety and Depression 101
September 19: Self-Care and Mindfulness
September 26: Thinking Skills
October 3: Action Skills
October 10: No workshop during Reading Week
October 17: Anxiety and Depression 101
October 24: Self-Care and Mindfulness
October 31: Thinking Skills
November 7: Action Skills
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.
This workshops is a series of in-person workshops to help you understand and manage feelings of anxiety and depression. The five modules will show how these feelings and thoughts affect us and provide several tools to help manage them.
Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3 p.m. from October 19 to November 16, 2022.
This is a drop-in group that will run in person in SC Board 1. You do not need to attend all five sessions, but it is encouraged. Join us from 1:30 to 3:00 pm as often as you wish.