Join the Food Resource Centre and Student Health and Wellness for Chopped U!

We’ll be making a fall harvest bowl together while chatting about how to build balanced meals when you’re working with a student budget and a busy schedule.

Lindsey Wachter, Health Promoter and Registered Kinesiologist, will share simple, practical tips for putting together meals that are filling, balanced and realistic for student life.

Come cook, eat and get some ideas for your next meal. Register for the event on LUSU Clubs den

Reading Week is the perfect time to pause, reset and check in with your well-being.

Join Student Health and Wellness for Fall Back into Balance, a simple challenge designed to help you build small habits that support your physical, mental and social well-being.

How it works:

• Download and print the challenge board
• Each day, choose one simple activity to complete.
• Challenges focus on things like getting outside, moving your body, connecting with others, making time for rest and doing something that helps you recharge.
• Check off each challenge as you go and see how many you can complete!
• Use Reading Week as a chance to step back from your usual routine and make some time for yourself.

There’s no need to do everything perfectly. The goal is simply to try something that helps you feel a little more balanced after the beginning of the semester.

Lakehead Student Health and Wellness Thunder Bay will be running a "Run Club" every Tuesday at 3pm, starting on Tuesday October 13th, 2026. Students are welcome to meet outside of the blue wall at the Student Health and Wellness building. All paces are welcome! We will be doing a 5km trail out and back to campus. Please wear running shoes, weather appropriate attire, and bring water. 

 MOVED INSIDE TO STUDENT HEALTH AND WELLNESS ACTIVITY ROOM

Take a break from the excitement of a new school year with Sleepy Flow, a calming yoga session led by an instructor from Modo Yoga. After class, unwind with a build-your-own sleep tea bar and pick up practical tips from Student Health and Wellness to help you get a better night's sleep.

No yoga experience is necessary. Bring your own mat if possible, though a limited number will be available to borrow.

Open to current post-secondary students, this presentation explores the emotional and practical realities of transitioning from school into the workforce. While graduation is an important milestone, many students report feeling unprepared, uncertain, or low in confidence as they step into a new social and professional identity. These experiences can bring up stress, anxiety, self-doubt, or even a sense of loss.

This session creates space to better understand those challenges and build practical strategies for navigating them with confidence.

By participating in this workshop, students will:

• Identify common challenges that arise during the transition after graduation
• Learn practical strategies to manage those challenges
• Explore community resources that can support a smoother transition

Open to current post-secondary students, this workshop explores the growing experience of burnout and how it can show up across different roles, responsibilities, and areas of life. Recognized by the World Health Organization as an “occupational phenomenon,” burnout is increasingly understood as a complex and multidimensional experience that can affect motivation, energy, and overall well-being.

Through this session, participants will gain insight into the signs of burnout and explore practical, evidence-informed strategies to support recovery and prevention.

By attending this workshop, participants will:

• Understand and contextualize burnout as a multidimensional concept
• Learn how core signs of burnout connect to research in motivation, goal setting, and neuroscience
• Develop a solution-focused, three-step plan to recover from and prevent burnout

Open to current post-secondary students, this workshop offers a high-level overview of how stress and anxiety can impact work and academic life. With a particular focus on anxiety in the workplace, participants will be introduced to the 3-R method, a practical framework for recognizing and responding to anxiety in themselves and others.

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Understand and contextualize stress and anxiety as multidimensional concepts
• Strengthen internal coping skills using a variety of practical strategies
• Learn the 3-Rs, a framework for supporting co-workers and peers

Brunch Bar pop up at the Barrie STEM Hub ft. Student Awards and Financial Aid!

Drop by to build your own brunch, learn about the food resources available on campus, and connect with other students in a relaxed and welcoming environment. On the menu:

• Yogurt parfaits
• Bagels
• Fresh Fruit
• Financial Literacy

Gluten free and vegan options are always available.

One more week until reading week! Take 10 minutes out of your day to unwind at Steep into Sleep. Stop by the Student Health and Wellness table at 5 Ross St to build your own sleep kit, grab a cup of tea and our wellness tea bar, explore relaxing activities, and think about how you'd like to rest and recharge over reading week.

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.

This workshop is free for all students, faculty, and staff.

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

Registration is required, space is limited.