Over the past three weeks, Martha Coulter and Amy Bremel have offered workshops on topics relating to mental health and wellness of staff as well as students.
Martha Coulter 
Feb. 17: Getting to Calm
Many of our students understandably experience chronic anxiety, racing thoughts, insomnia, and panic. This session covered practical and accessible tools to teach your students how to calm their mind and body. Here are two Dropbox links to resources from this workshop:
- Getting to Calm: Activities, Apps, and Practices for Daily Use
- Quick tools to use when a student is experiencing extreme anxiety: Emergency Tools for Anxiety
Feb. 24: Recognizing and Effectively Responding to Students in Distress
We reviewed signs of student distress, the language we can use to approach these students, and effective ways to connect students to appropriate support services. Here is a link to a recording of the presentation . Please follow this link below for a copy of the PowerPoint presentation:
March 3: What Happened to You?
Students who have experienced trauma often present with perplexing patterns of behavior, including having trouble regulating emotions, problematic relationship patterns (including with professors), hyper-sensitivity, executive functioning issues, and more. It is helpful to consider these students with a mindset of “What happened to you” rather than “What is wrong with you?!” Here is a link to the recording of the presentation. Please follow this link for a copy of the PowerPoint Presentation for this session.
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