FRTF resource hub: Self management

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  • Alleviating Anxiety

    Throughout this seminar, we will introduce you to a number of strategies designed to alleviate anxiety in the moment, challenge your anxious thoughts, and change behaviours that maintain your anxiety. 

  • Calming the Panic: Practical Skills to Reduce Anxiety

    Learn facts about panic/anxiety attacks, common symptoms of panic attacks, and practical coping strategies for calming your mind and body in our three-part Calming the Panic series. 

  • Conflict Management Exploration (Student Leadership Program)

    By the end of this workshop, you will have the ability to identify and use five conflict management styles. You will also be able to practice the basic principle of conflict management by focusing on the situation or behaviour at the heart of a conflict, not on the person involved, and apply the Five Whys technique as an effective problem-solving method. 

  • Coping Skills: Cultivating Resilliency

    Learn how to develop healthier self-care habits; understand the connections between sleep, exercise, and nutrition; learn about the three pillars of resilience, learn how to re-frame failure and move forward, and relax using breathing techniques. 

  • Coping Skills: Empowering Habit Change

    Learn about the habit loop; the stages of the change cycle; how to re-shape or change habits; strategies to increase motivation, overcome obstacles, and increase chances for success; and how to relax using progressive muscle relaxation. 

  • Coping Skills: Managing Emotions

    In this seminar, you will learn how to manage your emotions through distress tolerance skills such as distraction, self-soothing, and improving the moment. 

  • Coping Skills: Thriving With Emotions

    Learn the five core emotions and their functions; the importance of cultivating happiness and how to increase it; how to identify emotional triggers; how to regulate emotions with distress tolerance, self-soothing, and improving the moment strategies; how to increase enjoyable activities; and how to relax using guided imagery visualization. 

  • Developing Your Emotional Intelligence

    Executive coach and organizational psychologist Gemma Roberts explains what emotional intelligence is and why it's important. 

  • Fundamentals of Supervision and Management II

    In this six-week online course, you will learn how to be a more effective manager or supervisor.  

  • Get Assertive!

    Learn specific techniques to become more assertive in all parts of your life. 

  • Grad Student Community and Conversation Circle

    This group offers a safe, confidential space in which to talk about the stressors in graduate school and life, emotions (including anxiety and depression), and relationships.  

  • Graduate Student Stress Management

    This seminar will cover the definition of stress, its common issues, the obstacles to seeking help, coping methods, and provide you with available resources. 

  • Group Therapy: Skills for Safer Living

    This is the University’s suicide ideation support group. It seeks to help members reduce the intensity, frequency and duration of suicide-related thinking. 

  • Improving Your Focus

    In this course, productivity expert and best-selling author Dave Crenshaw helps you develop survival skills to both avoid daily distractions and stay focused on what's most valuable. 

  • Motivating Others (Student Leadership Program)

    How does the power of diversity create better groups/teams? What are the necessary elements to create and sustain a motivating environment? How are diversity and motivation linked? The purpose of this workshop is to explore the factors that fuel motivation, and how to harness them within oneself and others.

  • Relaxation Exercises

    Relaxation exercises from Campus Wellness seminars, available as individual videos.

  • Stress Management

    This seminar will cover the definition of stress, its sources, how to identify if you're stressed, and how to cope with it. It will also discuss physical and cognitive strategies associated with dealing with stress. 

  • Understanding Human Behaviour

    Using the EverythingDiSC Workplace Profile® (produced by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) and a few simple steps, this course will help you to improve your interpersonal effectiveness and emotional intelligence, communicate more effectively with others, build stronger working relationships, and increase your performance in both your professional and personal lives.