Pick up some mental health giveaways and a photo wall provided by Bell Let's Talk, connect with your fellow Thunderwolves and unwind with a hot chocolate bar, games, puzzles and other activities.

Therapy Dogs will join us from 12-1pm. 

Reps from Student Health and Wellness and Human Resources will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about the resources available to you.

Open to students, staff and faculty.

To see the rest of the Thrive Week schedule, visit www.lakeheadu.ca/Thrive

Join Student Health and Wellness for a facilitated discussion focused on mental health stigma including basic mental health literacy, an overview of mental health resources and supports and an invitation to take part in reducing stigma on campus with the use of our toolkit.

Open to faculty and staff. Sign Up

Get into your self-care era by taking a break to make a bracelet with reps from Student Health and Wellness. Free coffee and treats provided. 

Thrive kits, funded by the Thunder Bay Community Foundation, will be available for students, faculty and staff.

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), like chlamydia and gonorrhea, can go unnoticed as they don't often cause symptoms so it is important to routinely get STI tests.

Student Health and Wellness, in partnership with the sexual health team at Thunder Bay District Health Unit, is hosting drop-in, confidential STI testing in the SHW activity room from 11-2pm. Urine, blood, rectal and throat tests will be available. 

Drop by for a test, get a free slice of pizza, and pick up sexual health supplies for future consensual activities. 

Lions, Dolphins, Bears, Oh My! 

According to the Sleep Foundation our chronotype is the natural inclination of your body to sleep at a certain time, or what most people understand as being an early bird versus a night owl. In addition to regulating sleep and wake times, chronotype influences appetite, exercise, and core body temperature. 

Join staff from Student Health & Wellness outside the Main Cafeteria on February 1st between 11am and 1pm to learn more about sleep health, uncover your chronotype, and grab some free sleep health supplies to support you in achieving a more restful sleep as you head off towards the end of the semester!

Join the Peer Wellness Educators and try your hand at polymer clay! Make earrings, beads, a keychain, whatever your heart desires. Drop into the activity room anytime between 1-4pm.

All supplies provided, no cost or previous experience to participate but you will need to bake your creation at home.

Join speaker Jayla Rousseau-Thomas, author of Thinking Differently: Using the Seven Generations Principle, for a workshop about how to make decisions like a good ancestor. 
The Seven Generations Principle is common within many Indigenous communities across North America. Simply put, the Seven Generations Principle puts the onus on decision-makers to consider the options and their impacts outside of just the current context when making decisions at the individual, family, and community levels. Each person is to consider the decision they are seeking to make, in addition to considering what would the seven generations before them have done, and how will this decision impact seven generations into the future. It encourages us to think of the connections between and among us and our environment, and to tread lightly and in solidarity. It encourages us to look both forwards and backwards to better integrate intergenerational equity into policies and administration. 

Open to students, staff and faculty.

To see the entire Thrive schedule, visit lakeheadu.ca/Thrive

Artwork in image: Seven Generations Moons‘ by First Nations Metis artist Leah Marie Dorion – Original painting presented by DaVic Gallery of Native Canadian Arts

As staff and faculty, you are often the first to recognize that a student is in distress so it is important that you feel equipped to identify these behaviours and also understand how you can help.

The Supporting Students in Distress Guide and accompanying workshop outline the various levels of distress and the resources you can provide for a student in each level of distress.

We will also cover available supports in various areas, both on and off-campus including Counselling and Wellness, Academic Services, Disability Services, Legal and Conduct, and Community Supports.

Open to staff, faculty and graduate students.

Student Health and Wellness invites instructors and faculty to visit our centre and have a discussion about mental health at Lakehead, how Student Health and Wellness supports students and strategies that faculty can adopt into their own practice to support their own well-being along with that of their students.

Refreshments will be provided.

Open to instructors and faculty only.

safeTALK is a 4-hour, in-person workshop to build skills in suicide prevention. Participants will learn how to recognize and engage with someone thinking about suicide, overcome attitudes that act as barriers to help, talk openly about suicide and connect with intervention resources for further support.

Through presentations, audiovisuals, small group discussion and scenario practice, you will learn a 4-step TALK model and practical steps to help activate a suicide alert that connects people having thoughts of suicide with more specialized intervention care and relevant resources.

All participants will receive a learning booklet, resources and a Certificate of Completion. 

Registration is required, space is limited.

Open to students, staff and faculty.