The UOW Counselling service provides free and confidential skills-based psychoeducation workshops. These workshops provide practical skills for managing emotions, motivation and relationships. If you have a friend who is having difficulties managing emotions, stress and anxiety these workshops will provide you with practical skills to best support your friend. A light refreshment will be provided during the workshop.
The workshop series is currently in the approval process as a UOWx activity.
Please register below for each of the workshops. There are 20 places available for each workshop. If it is fully subscribed, you will be placed on a waiting list and will have priority placement when the workshop series is run again.
COMING TO THE PARTY WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY (PART 1)
Date: Tuesday 26 July
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm (AEDT)
Venue: Pulse Think Tank; Building 11
This is the first of two sessions that follow one another. In this session we will focus on understanding what social anxiety is, how it is formed, what reinforces it and why our brain thinks it’s a good idea.
Please register to attend, spaces are limited so get in quick!
THIS SESSION IS CURRENTLY FULL, If you would like to be added to the cancellation list, please register and we will also be touch for future sessions that may be run.
UNDER PRESSURE: SHORT TERM STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING STRESS AND EMOTIONS
Date: Tuesday 2 August
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm (AEDT)
Venue: Pulse Think Tank; Building 11
Stress is an often-inevitable part of student life: between juggling deadlines, exams and balancing other life commitments. If this stress builds and increases to become distress, it can have a negative impact on our mood, motivation and wellbeing. This workshop will go through a range of short-term, practical skills and strategies to enable us to better manage and respond to stress and distress while we are experiencing it.
Please register to attend, spaces are limited so get in quick!
THIS SESSION IS CURRENTLY FULL, If you would like to be added to the cancellation list, please register and we will also be touch for future sessions that may be run.
DISCOVERING WHAT DRIVES YOU: MOTIVATION AND VALUES FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Date: Tuesday 9 August
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm (AEDT)
Venue: Pulse Think Tank; Building 11
When people are driven by their values, they tend to be more satisfied, work effectively and lead a healthy and satisfied life. This workshop aims to explore and prioritise inner values and drives that will help you to attain goals that are meaningful and sustainable to you.
Please register to attend, spaces are limited so get in quick!
THIS SESSION IS CURRENTLY FULL, If you would like to be added to the cancellation list, please register and we will also be touch for future sessions that may be run.
COMING TO THE PARTY WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY (PART 2)
Date: Tuesday 16 August
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm (AEDT)
Venue: Pulse Think Tank; Building 11
In this session we will use the knowledge we have gathered from Part One to apply cognitive behaviour therapy and cognitive restricting techniques (which trials tell us work for 75% of people), to take control back from the disorder and begin using it to benefit us.
Please register to attend, spaces are limited so get in quick!
THIS SESSION IS CURRENTLY FULL, If you would like to be added to the cancellation list, please register and we will also be touch for future sessions that may be run.
KEEPING IT TOGETHER: MEDIUM TERM STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING STRESS AND EMOTIONS
Date: Tuesday 23 August
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm (AEDT)
Venue: Pulse Think Tank; Building 11
Given the peaks and troughs of stress that come along with student life, it can be helpful to have practices and routines that assist us in mitigating and tolerating the peaks of this stress. This workshop will look at some of the medium-term, ongoing strategies that can help to build our resilience and capacity to navigate stress and its impacts.
Please register to attend, spaces are limited so get in quick!
THIS SESSION IS CURRENTLY FULL, If you would like to be added to the cancellation list, please register and we will also be touch for future sessions that may be run.
HOW TO CONNECT WITH STYLE: SOFT SKILLS HARD RESULTS (PEOPLE SKILLS)
Date: Tuesday 30 August
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm (AEDT)
Venue: Pulse Think Tank; Building 11
Effective interpersonal skills are key to building and establishing potential successful personal and professional relationships and boundaries. This workshop aims to assist you to understand, learn and implement basic skills, techniques and strategies essential for communicating and connecting more effectively with others.
Please register to attend, spaces are limited so get in quick!
THIS SESSION IS CURRENTLY FULL, If you would like to be added to the cancellation list, please register and we will also be touch for future sessions that may be run.