Wellness Programs
Check out our Menu of Wellness Programs!
The Student Health and Wellness Center (SHAW) offers a variety of wellness programs that help you develop healthy habits for personal well-being and skills for contributing to a healthier campus community. Request a program for your class, residence hall, or student group, or sign yourself up for one of our scheduled programs. Click on the topic areas below to find a program that suits your needs.
Emotional Health/Stress Management
Calm and Crafty
🕐 50 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Description: Get artsy and zen out with the Student Health and Wellness Center! Drop in and dive into a world of relaxation through creative self-care with arts and crafts.
De-stress, not Distress
🕐 50 Minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student/Professional Staff
Description: Let’s take a break! As busy college students, experiencing stress is common. The impact of ongoing or unresolved stress can lead to feelings of anxiety, depression, irritability, poor concentration, physical illness, fatigue, and sleep difficulties. In this workshop, we will discuss the stressors in our lives, reflect on the tools and strategies we currently use to cope and take care of ourselves, and explore new ways to proactively manage stress.
Intro to Mindfulness
Intro to Mindfulness is a 4-part workshop that will teach the skill of mindfulness and help you use it in your life on a regular basis. Mindfulness is the capacity to pay attention to your present-moment experience with an attitude of kindness and compassionate curiosity. The benefits of a mindfulness practice include more confidence, better memory, less negative thoughts and improved focus. Each of the 4 sessions is 75 minutes. A $3.99 workshop fee includes lifelong access to a mindfulness app.
Managing Anxiety
🕐 50 Minutes
Description: Learn skills to manage your anxiety so that you can feel better quickly! We will teach box breathing, mindfulness, meditation, grounding techniques, and progressive muscle relaxation to help you get control of your body and mind when anxiety has a hold of you! Also, learn about the latest neuropsychology on how the brain works when you are anxious and ways to pull it out of fight or flight mode to regain control of your life.
Mindful Walk
🕐 Typically 1 hour
Connect with nature during a mindful walk. We’ll practice basic mindfulness during a nature walk near campus and spend time individually practicing mindfulness at our destination before heading back to campus. This program is great for groups of friends, student organizations, clubs, and students looking to connect with others and get outside!
Unhooking from Imposter Syndrome
🕐 50 Minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Professional Staff/Graduate Student Staff
Description: Do you feel like a fake or phony? Do you have a hard time taking credit for your successes, or do you constantly worry you won’t live up to expectations? Are you an overachiever, or do you sabotage your own success? If any of these apply to you, you may be experiencing what’s known as the impostor phenomenon. Learn more about how this sneaky self-doubt hooks you, reels you in, and beats you up, and how you can unhook from it in order to put your time and energy into doing what really matters to you.
You Can Help!: Prevent Suicide
🕐 75-90 Minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Professional Staff/Graduate Student Staff
Description: You Can Help!: Prevent Suicide is a bystander intervention program that enables students to help fellow students in emotional distress. Through this program, students will:
- become familiar with some basic facts related to college student mental health,
- understand the warning signs of emotional distress and suicide,
- be prepared to support someone in emotional distress in crisis,
- learn how to refer fellow students to the appropriate resources, and
- understand strategies for increasing resiliency and engaging in self-care
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
Sleep
Sleep on It
🕐 50 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Professional Staff
Difficulty sleeping? Daytime sleepiness? As a college student, getting quality sleep can be tough. Sleep is essential to academic performance, physical, and emotional health. In this workshop, you can expect to learn about ‘sleep hygiene’ — daily behaviors that can improve the quality of sleep. You’ll complete a brief survey to assess your current sleep hygiene, identify your sleep goals, and create a tailor-made plan for things you can start doing right away to help yourself sleep better. You’ll be on your way to maximizing all the benefits of a good night’s sleep!
Zs Get Degrees
🕐 50 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student/Professional Staff
Description: Getting quality sleep is crucial for overall well-being and for academic success. Drop in to discover how small changes to sleep can make a big difference in your energy, productivity, and well-being, and participate in sleep-themed crafts!
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
Nutrition
Eating On a Time Crunch
🕐 40 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Description: Finding time to cook and eat nutritious foods as a busy college student is hard! In this workshop, we’ll discuss tips for sneaking in nutritious foods during a busy schedule, tips for meal prepping, and packing lunches. By the end of it, you’ll also have made your own recipe book!
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
Alcohol and Other Drugs
BASICS: Brief Alcohol and Other Drug Screening & Intervention for College Students
BASICS offers students an opportunity to explore their use of alcohol, cannabis, or other drugs in a confidential and non-judgmental setting with a Health Promotion & Wellness staff member. BASICS is a two-session, individuals-only program, it is not designed for student groups.
Drinking/Drug Culture Close-Up
This program can help your student group, team or living-learning community openly discuss all perspectives, attitudes and impacts of drinking or other drug use among members. The program opens the door for a peer-to-peer conversation about the group’s drinking or drug culture, and if and how to best adjust it on an individual and group level. An anonymous online survey completed by group members gets the discussion going. You might be surprised by what your peers have to say!
Rethinking Your Drinking
🕐 50 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Description: Did you know that mindfulness practices can support more than your mental health? In this workshop, we’ll highlight the components of mindfulness, review harm reduction strategies related to drinking, and discuss how you can apply these components and strategies to making safer decisions around drinking.
You Can Help! Stop Overdose
🕐 50-90 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Professional Staff
To learn more about how to help in an overdose situation, participate in You Can Help! Prevent Overdose, a bystander intervention training that encourages students to help others in unsafe alcohol- or other drug-related situations. Participants learn important information and process realistic situations to enhance the skills, confidence and empathy necessary to respond quickly and effectively when someone may be overdosing.
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
Healthy Relationships
Swipe Safely
🕐 50 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Description: In this program, we’ll explore safety features and tips to keep yourself safe on dating apps, and we’ll practice “swiping” on fake dating profiles.
Snack & Chat
🕐 50 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Description: In this program, we’ll watch clips from popular shows and movies and discuss what makes a relationship healthy. Snacks will be provided!
Boundaries: Building the Foundation
🕐 50 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Clearly communicated boundaries is an important component of any relationship. Learn about how you can clearly and concisely set boundaries and practice communicating them in this low-stakes environment.
Boundaries: Revising the Blueprint
🕐 50 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Professional Staff
This presentation builds upon the skills learned in Boundaries: Building a Foundation. We will dive deep and expand understanding of boundaries. By the end, participants will have a deeper understanding of the different types of boundaries, common barriers to boundaries, how to make a boundary most effective, and steps to take if you see a boundary being violated. This workshop will help participants feel confident saying yes, no, and everything in between.
Consent: Sweet as Candy
🕐 50 Minutes
Facilitator: Professional Staff
Audience: Students
This workshop emphasizes the importance of communication in consensual situations. Through interactive demonstrations, we will highlight the impact that open, direct, and consistent communication can have when seeking or giving consent. Participants will leave this program with increased confidence in understanding consent and something to satisfy their sweet tooth!
You Can Help!: Prevent Sexual and Relationship Violence
🕐 75-90 Minutes
Facilitator: Professional Staff
Audience: Students/Staff
Description: With this You Can Help! bystander intervention training, participants will learn the important role they can play as active bystanders in preventing sexual and relationship violence by learning safe and effective ways to intervene. Participants will learn how to identify potentially harmful situations, understand behaviors and attitudes that contribute to a culture of violence, and practice new intervention techniques.
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
Sexual Health
Condom Olympics
🕐 1 hour
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Description: Learn about safe sex practices, consent, and sexual wellness in this interactive program. Test your knowledge with trivia and interactive games!
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
Body Acceptance
Journaling for Body Acceptance
🕐 50 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Description: In this workshop, students can explore various styles of journaling and find one that meets their interests. We’ll discuss using journaling as a form of self-care to help students better express their thoughts and reflect on them. The focus of this workshop is on body acceptance and body neutrality, and how journaling can be an outlet for reflecting on your relationship with your body.
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
You Can Help!
You Can Help! Prevent Suicide
🕐 75-90 Minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Professional Staff/Graduate Student Staff
Description: You Can Help!: Prevent Suicide is a bystander intervention program that enables students to help fellow students in emotional distress. Through this program, students will:
- become familiar with some basic facts related to college student mental health,
- understand the warning signs of emotional distress and suicide,
- be prepared to support someone in emotional distress in crisis,
- learn how to refer fellow students to the appropriate resources, and
- understand strategies for increasing resiliency and engaging in self-care
You Can Help! Prevent Sexual and Relationship Violence
🕐 75-90 Minutes
Facilitator: Professional Staff
Audience: Students/Staff
With this You Can Help! bystander intervention training, participants will learn the important role they can play as active bystanders in preventing sexual and relationship violence by learning safe and effective ways to intervene. Participants will learn how to identify potentially harmful situations, understand behaviors and attitudes that contribute to a culture of violence, and practice new intervention techniques.
You Can Help! Stop Overdose
🕐 50-90 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Professional Staff
To learn more about how to help in an overdose situation, participate in You Can Help! Prevent Overdose, a bystander intervention training that encourages students to help others in unsafe alcohol- or other drug-related situations. Participants learn important information and process realistic situations to enhance the skills, confidence and empathy necessary to respond quickly and effectively when someone may be overdosing.
How to Help a Friend
🕐 30 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Professional Staff
How to Help a Friend is a brief training about how you can respond to a friend who discloses they experienced sexual violence and what you can do to help them. This training is great for students who want some tips in case of a disclosure from a friend, family member, acquaintance, or colleague.
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
Overall Wellness
SMART Goals and Vision Boards
🕐 1 hour
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Description: Are you in a period of transition? Are you working toward a particular goal? Maybe you have big dreams, but you don’t know where to start. In this program, we will walk you through how to set SMART goals, how to break down big dreams into more manageable and attainable goals, and create a vision board as a reminder of where you are headed!
Health Bingo
🕐 30-60 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Student Staff
Description: Like traditional BINGO but with health questions! Test your knowledge on a specific health topic, and as you answer the questions, mark your BINGO card to win!
Options for topic-specific BINGO:
- Sexual Health
- Alcohol and Other Drugs
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
Victim Advocacy
Trauma-Informed Care
🕐 2 hours; Offered during Winter and Summer
This trauma-informed care presentation is a revised version of the Wisconsin Hawthorn Project Trauma Informed Care Training. Its purpose is to engage in a process of both a somatic and cognitive understanding of trauma-informed care. You will be able to define trauma and the different types of trauma, become familiar with the signs and symptoms of trauma, learn trauma-informed care principles, explore the parallel process of trauma resilience and recovery, and practice strategies for cultivating resilience. This training is great for professional staff looking to further their knowledge of how to understand students dealing with trauma.
What is Victim Advocacy?
🕐 30-45 minutes
Audience: Students
Facilitator: Professional Staff
This Victim Advocacy training explores the different types of victim advocates who serve survivors of domestic and relationship violence, stalking, and human trafficking and explains the role of the Survivor Support and Victim Advocate on campus. A great presentation for students learning about advocacy and professional staff interested in how advocacy services can help students.
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!
Overview of Student Health and Wellness Center Services
Short Overview
🕐 20-25 minutes
The Student Health and Wellness Center’s short overviews are great options for student groups and new student seminar classes. These overviews encompass all that SHAW offers, including medical, mental health, advocacy and health promotion services; personnel; and eligibility.
What is Victim Advocacy?
🕐 30-45 minutes
This Victim Advocacy training explores the different types of victim advocates who serve survivors of domestic and relationship violence, stalking, and human trafficking and explains the role of the Survivor Support and Victim Advocate on campus. A great presentation for students learning about advocacy and professional staff interested in how advocacy services can help students.
Can’t find the program you’re looking for? Contact us today!