Wellness workshops

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Name and understand the UBC resources that support student wellbeing
• Identify how to connect with a resource to help yourself or a peer

Time: 10-30 minutes

Intended audience: All students

Presented by: Health Promotion Specialists

How you decide to spend time and prioritize responsibilities can contribute to how you feel. This workshop can help you identify how you currently spend your time and how you would like to better manage your time. You will learn effective time management strategies that you can personalize to fit your values, priorities, and lifestyle in order to reduce stress and achieve success.

This workshop will be hosted in a small group session of up to 10 people. You will be invited to reflect on your personal experiences and your unique wellness needs.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Assess your current use of time
• Develop effective time management strategies
• Examine your energy cycle
• Set priorities and goals

Time: 1 hour

Intended audience: All students

Presented by: Wellness Peer Educators and/or Health Promotion Specialists

Student leaders are often important role-models for their fellow students, and prioritizing your personal wellbeing is fundamental to assisting and supporting others. This workshop guides students in leadership positions to reflect on their own wellness to empower them as role-models for student wellbeing.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Recognize your own personal wellness needs
• Relate the concept of wellness to more effective leadership
• Role-model wellness as a student leader
• Identify and apply strategies to support the wellness of yourself and others

Time: 1 hours

Intended audience: Student leaders

Presented by: Wellness Peer Educators and/or Health Promotion Specialists

BC and Canada are in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis. In this workshop, you will reflect on the subject of substance use and its impacts, examine stigma and biases you may hold that would prevent helping, and gain practical strategies you can use to minimize the risk of substance use for yourself and others. These skills will increase participants' confidence to recognize and help an overdose situation and make UBC a safer place.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Minimize harm in situations with substance use
• Identify ways to prevent overdose
• Recognize and help someone who is overdosing

Time: 1 to 1.5 hours

Intended audience: All students

Presented by: First Aid Student Team member and/ or Health Promotion Specialists

Learn about communicating with impact and effectiveness. This session aims to help improve your relationships and conversation outcomes.

By the end of this workshop, individuals will be able to:

• Understand different communication styles
• Practice assertive communication
• Communicate healthy boundaries
• Understand what active listening looks like

*Strategies for public speaking are not included in this session

Time: 1 hour

Intended audience: All students

Presented by: Wellness Advisors

Better understand your mood by learning about the relationship between your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

By the end of this workshop, individuals will be more more empowered by:

• Learning about the subconscious thoughts you experience in response to everyday events, how they impact you and how to spot them
• Recognizing limited thinking patterns

Time: 1 hour

Intended audience: All students

Presented by: Wellness Advisors

This workshop helps you understand why break-ups feel so hard

By the end of this workshop, individuals will have learned to:

• Grieve the end of a relationship
• Heal and move forward
• Identify what a healthy relationship looks like

Time: 1 hour

Intended audience: All students

Presented by: Wellness Advisors