Join SHW Counsellor, Holly, for a session for queer students can practice self-compassion and respond to difficulties with kindness, warmth, and understanding.
Palentine’s Day is your chance to celebrate all kinds of platonic love! Taking time for social connections with others can boost your mood and contribute to overall happiness, so grabbing your friends and heading down to Lake Tamblyn can be the perfect pick-me-up.
Join ResLife and Student Health and Wellness for a bonfire and hot chocolate as we light up Lake Tamblyn with twinkle lights. We'll also have some love-ly photo ops set up.
Please come and enjoy some herbal tea and/or collective discussions. Teachings will be given about herbs used in various teas. Tea & Teaching is hosted by Frazer Phillips, Indigenous Cultural Wellness Facilitator.
Every Tuesday in February!
Winter time is Round Dance season. Drop in to connect with Frazer Phillips, Indigenous Cultural Wellness Facilitator, and learn about drumming, singing, etiquette, and dancing aspects of the Round Dance. Come and learn!
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.
Open to students, staff and faculty.
Registration is required, space is limited.
Body Talks is a conversation series about the intersections of body image and health offered in collaboration between Student Health and Wellness, the Gender Equity Centre and Pride Central.
This guided discussion will tackle how social media can influence our self-image and how we can establish a positive relationship with social media platforms.
The Refresh Sleep program aims to provide Lakehead students, staff and faculty with the skills and strategies to achieve more restful nights.
When you join the Refresh Sleep program, you will receive a weekly email for eight weeks that has an attached PDF with important information and tips that have been proven to help improve sleep. It is encouraged to spend at least thirty minutes per week with the program information. The materials include information about:
Please note that you will not receive your first email until February 5, 2022.
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
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:
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
