Mental Health Week 2022

Mindful Moments (Online)

Monday May 2, 12:00-12:15pm

Take a short break and engage in two simple mindfulness exercises (just 15 minutes!). These practices can help calm your nervous system, relax your body, and promote clarity and focus in your mind. Take-home instructions for several mindful practices will be offered at the end of the session (also available here), helping you build your mindfulness toolkit. No experience necessary and everyone is welcome.

Please register here: https://libcal.royalroads.ca/calendar/academic_coaching_workshops

Zoom link for session: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82424057893

If you have any questions about the session, please contact counselling@royalroads.ca

 

Cultivating Wellbeing in Tumultuous Times – Online Workshop

Tuesday May 3rd at 12:00-1:00pm PST

It continues to be a challenging time in our world. Maintaining our health and wellbeing while coping with the demands of life, studies, and a variety of other stressors, is not easy. In acknowledgement of Mental Health Week, we invite students to pause and prioritize their wellbeing. Facilitated by RRU’s Counselling & Learning Strategy Team, this workshop will offer some space to explore the impacts of uncertainty, stress and grief. It will also offer strategies to increase your resilience in your personal, academic and work life.

This session will offer:

  • Strategies for how to manage stress in healthy ways
  • Tips on how to respond to adversity and failure
  • Strategies to improve physical and mental health
  • Skills to shift negative thought patterns
  • A model for building resilience

Please register: https://libcal.royalroads.ca/calendar/academic_coaching_workshops

This online workshop will be offered via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82424057893

If you have questions about the workshop, please email counselling@royalroads.ca

Yoga for Mental Health Week

Wednesday May 4th at 4:00-5:00pm in the Recreation Centre

This year’s theme for Mental Health Week is empathy. Join RRU’s talented yoga instructor, Nancy Prevost-Maurice, for a yoga class dedicated to cultivating empathy for ourselves and others. Nancy will lead us through a series of poses and movements that honour our bodies and minds, and all they do for us. She will also highlight the ways yoga practices can support our mental health and wellbeing. Beginners are welcome, and options will be provided for all levels.

Open to all students and staff.

Please bring a mat if you have one, some will also be provided.

Please register: https://libcal.royalroads.ca/calendar/academic_coaching_workshops

If you have questions, please email counselling@royalroads.ca

Mindful Walk in the Gardens

Thursday May 6th, 12:15-12:45pm *Meet outside Library main doors

Join our Counselling & Learning Strategy team for a walk through RRU’s stunning gardens, while also learning some mindfulness exercises that can help manage stress and improve focus.

Meet outside the main entrance to the library at 12:15pm, and dress appropriately for weather. We will go out rain or shine! All students are welcome.

Please register: https://libcal.royalroads.ca/calendar/academic_coaching_workshops

If you have questions, please email counselling@royalroads.ca