DCSI and @durhamcollege present: 🧠DC MENTAL HEALTH CHECK IN *REPLAY*💭
Couldn't join us for our packed calendar of events and activities that put your Mental Health first?
Check out our schedule below and catch what you missed now! 👀 ✨
Tuesday October 6, 2020
Redefining Resilience with Rumeet Billan, Ph.D
Missed the session? Don't stress! Watch the recording here!
Join special guest Rumeet Billan, Ph.D. as she leads a workshop focusing on resilience.
Resilience is a powerful skill that can be developed. It is the ability to bounce back from obstacles and setbacks to achieve higher levels of performance. It requires developing positive adaptation processes to help overcome the challenges that we face, and the use of positive experiences to build confidence in our strengths and abilities. It also involves interventions that support and develop self-trust, objective reasoning, perseverance and possibility thinking.
Research shows that these capabilities can be learned, and this workshop focuses on how we can develop strategies to build our resilience by examining the capabilities of psychological capital, and improve the experiences that we have to reach our full potential.
Keeping Stress in Check .
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Jordan Axani, Shift Collab will be speaking on the best techniques to keep stress in check during stressful times.
His session will go over techniques and methods to help to alleviate stress and avoid becoming overwhelmed and burnt out.
Tuesdays With DCSI
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Hang-out with other students and take part in fun virtual activities such as movie nights, game nights and other online activities. Each week we'll be doing something new!
This weekly session serves as your opportunity to meet other students and win some cool prizes!
Wednesday October 7, 2020
Self-Care Check-In
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Are you feeling tired, worn-out and exhausted?
Have you taken a moment for yourself lately?
Join us for this session with Melody Phu, Shift Collab where we are taking a moment to check-in how we are coping with everything that is going on.
As a student with a ton on your plate this semester, we highly recommend that you take some time for self-care, you deserve it!
Through this session, we’ll be providing instruction on self-care techniques you can try from home in addition to creating a safe space for you to drop in and chat about whatever you may be going through. We’re here for you!
De-Stress Paint Party
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Being creative is a great way to relieve stress and anxiety!
Join us alongside DC Alumni, Olivia Brumbill for a guided painting experience.
Materials List:
White, black, red, yellow, and blue acrylic paint
One large and one small paintbrush
Canvas (16 by 20 inches, or any size you have at home)
Palette (Can be wax paper, a plastic plate, any hard, flat item that isn't porous.)
and a cup of water for cleaning the brush.
Optional extra supplies include:
An apron
An easel
Thursday October 8, 2020
Dating During a Pandemic
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Relationships are hard during normal times, let alone during a pandemic.
Whether you've been isolating with your partner or separately, how you go about your relationship has definitely changed.
Through this session, we'll be asking what does a healthy relationship look like during the pandemic?
Join us for this session with Lynn Cohen from the Durham Rape Crisis Centre where we talk about what a healthy relationship looks like when in a worldwide pandemic. We'll be addressing red flags that may be caused by the pandemic, how to foster a healthier relationship with your partner (when you are sharing a space for 6 months), among answer any questions you may have!
Staying Focused in a Noisy World
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We understand that virtual learning is tough, after all, how do you staying on track with so much up in the air?
Jordan Axani, Shift Collab will be leading us through this informative session on staying focused in a noisy world.
Through this session, you will learn techniques to help stay focused and on-track when distractions are abundant.
Friday, October 9, 2020
Sleep Matters with Althea Fernandes
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Have you been catching enough Z's lately?
Join us for this session where we discuss the relationship between sleep and mental health with Althea Fernandes.
Yoga w/ Adam Duke
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Adam Duke of Duketree Yoga will be guiding us through a 30-minute yoga practice. Through the session, we'll be exploring 15 minutes of relaxing poses and running through a 5-minute meditation exercise.
This session is great for beginners and professionals alike and will help you to reduce stress and anxiety.
Adam Duke
Yoga Teacher (RYT 200)
Shamanic Sweat Lodge Practitioner (NACTI)
Guided Meditation w/ Lisa Consoli
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Lisa Consoli is a Certified and Master Hypnotist and Reiki Practitioner. She herself struggled in her early twenties from panic attacks several times a day which she overcame through the help of guided mediation and hypnotism.
Lisa’s sessions are a great way to build your confidence, motivation and a positive attitude. Join us for this guided mediation that will address mental health and letting go of stress and anxiety.
Guided Mediation Begins at 26:00