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.
Facilitated by: Dr. Ellen Field, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education (Orillia) and Aynsley Klassen, Interim Sustainability Coordinator
This workshop is open to all students looking for a safe space to collectively recognize, embrace, explore, and process our complex feelings related to climate change. How can our feelings of fear, anger, powerlessness, and anxiety be recognized and affirmed in ways that translate into possibility, community, and motivation?
Registration Required: tinyurl.com/climatemotion
Take a break in the great outdoors with some classic snow day activities: sledding, snowman building, and skating (weather and ice conditions permitting).
Open to all members of the Lakehead community.
To see the entire Thrive Week schedule, visit www.lakeheadu.ca/Thrive
Imposter syndrome can leave us feeling like we are all alone in the world, but ironically, many graduate students, faculty and high achievers experience these feelings of inadequacy. Join SHW counsellor, Irene, for a discussion around common triggers for the imposter phenomenon and the steps you can take to work through them.
Join Kaelyn, accredited music therapist and neurologic music therapist, for a unique group finding new ways to destress with music! Come out to experience a bit of what music therapy can do for you and gain some resources for you to try at home. Music therapists can utilize different aspects of music to express all types of emotions, regulate mind and body and even slow heart rate during times of active stressors. Activities will all be done in a low-stakes group environment at whatever participation level you feel comfortable, no "solos" required!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pick up some fresh produce at low prices right on campus at the Roots to Harvest market.
Open to students, staff and faculty.
To see the entire Thrive schedule, visit lakeheadu.ca/Thrive
