The Refresh Sleep program aims to provide Lakehead students, staff and faculty with the skills and strategies to achieve more restful nights.

Grab a newspaper and give the visiting a warm welcome while taking part in Lakehead Basketball's traditional Whiteout. Wear a white T-shirt!

Open to the community;

STUDENTS - LUSU will be offering free tickets to 50 Lakehead Students

EMPLOYEES - Athletics and HR will be offering free tickets to 50 Lakehead Employees

EMPLOYEES RSVP HERE

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

Stop by Chancellor Paterson Library to pick up a journalling kit as part of Student Health and Wellness' Love week. Each kit includes a journal, writing tools and an intro guide to journalling as self-care. Limited kits available, first-come, first served. 

Keeping a record of personal thoughts and feelings is particularly helpful in supporting mental health:

• Reducing anxiety
• Breaking away from a nonstop cycle of obsessive thinking and brooding
• Improving the awareness and perception of events
• Regulating emotions
• Encouraging awareness

See the rest of the week's events at www.lakeheadu.ca/shw-events.

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