Workshops and Resources for Self-Care

This three-part workshop series offers insights on procrastination and provides tools backed by neuroscience to help you break through barriers to achieving your goals.

Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 PM

Anxiety Toolbox focuses on helping students understand anxiety symptoms and build skills to manage these symptoms. The sessions include modules dedicated to:

1. understanding anxiety
2. introducing a method for slowing down and disentangling the experience of anxiety
3. developing alternative responses to anxiety

By the end of the workshop, students will have their own individualized plan for managing anxiety.

Workgroup Manual (PDF)

This three-session workshop focuses on helping students learn about body image, what contributes to a negative body image, and how this relates to self-esteem and impacts relationships. This workshop will give students skills for developing a more body-neutral relationship with themselves.

Workgroup Manual (PDF)

Breakup Bootcamp is a three-part series for folks contemplating whether they should break up, wondering how to break up, or struggling to get over a breakup. Students can view the entire workshop or whichever section matches their current situation.

Workgroup Manual (PDF)

BRIDGE focuses on identifying ways to foster healthy relationships via self-monitoring, effective communication, and conflict resolution skills. The sessions include modules dedicated to helping students:

1. better understand their values and boundaries in relationships
2. learn the role of culture in communication, different styles of communication, and strategies for effective communication
3. identify common causes of conflict and effective conflict management techniques

Workgroup Manual (PDF)

Getting Unstuck focuses on helping students understand depressive symptoms and build skills to manage these symptoms. The sessions include modules dedicated to:

1. understanding depression
2. exploring how thoughts and behaviors impact depression
3. addressing how students can begin to make changes to thoughts and behaviors to better manage depression

By the end of the workshop, students will have their own individualized plan for getting unstuck!

Workgroup Manual (PDF)

A brief skills workshop series that provides education and application on coping skills to reset and thrive. The series provides a basic understanding of coping skills to utilize in managing stress, adversity, and fostering growth. Topics include self-compassion, motivation, and resilience.

Workgroup Manual (PDF)

This two-session workshop series focuses on helping students reduce/manage their substance use. By the end of the workshop, students will have an individualized relapse plan and have greater insight into their substance use.

Workgroup Manual (PDF)

Date Yourself (courtesy of Drexel University) is a three-part workshop centered around understanding, developing, and improving a student's relationship with themself! In this workshop, students will address self-perception, relationship patterns (i.e., attachment styles), and techniques to improve self-esteem as it relates to healthy relationships. Students will learn to build up their own self-esteem to feel more confident about who they are and establish authentic relationships.

Workgroup Manual (PDF)

ADHD & Life Skills Series is a set of four single-session workshops that focus on helping students who either have ADHD or struggle with skills associated with planning and organizing. The four different workshops also teach skills to reduce distraction and decrease procrastination. The sessions include modules dedicated to:

1. Understanding ADHD and how it impacts, mood, school, life, and relationships
2. Learning ways to schedule and prioritize daily life
3. Developing tools to reduce distraction
4. Gaining skills to combat procrastination

Handouts
Procrastination (PDF)
Scheduling (PDF)
Reducing Distractions (PDF)
ADHD 101 (PDF)

RIO stands for Recognition, Insight and Openness. This is a workshop that teaches skills to handle painful thoughts and feelings effectively, in such a way that they have much less impact and influence. RIO focuses on changing our relationship with our psychological pain and creating flexibility in how we respond to it. The main goals of RIO are to give you tools to recognize your concerns and to develop a clearer idea of what you want to change in your life.

Workgroup Manual (PDF)

Mood Management is a three-session workshop series intended to help increase your understanding of emotions and develop strategies to help you cope when your emotions become distressing and hard to tolerate. The goal is to provide you with skills to recognize and manage symptoms you may be experiencing.

Workgroup Manual (PDF)