New for Winter 2025! Journalling for Wellbeing Winter Intensive
Whether you are new to journalling or just want help developing a journalling practice, this session is for you.
This program will use reflective journalling to help you identify personal narratives that are negatively impacting how you think and feel about yourself and how you interact with others. You will be introduced to a writing toolbox full of tools that can help you identify these narratives, turn around them around, and begin to embrace new, healthier, and more life-giving thinking. This program is based on Lengelle & Meijers’ (2009) Transformation Through Writing model. They have done extensive research on how writing can be used to guide individuals in processing difficult personal or workplace events, work through the negative thinking that can result, and transform their thinking allowing them to move forward personally and professionally.
Especially for winter, we are piloting an eight-week Intensive program intended to help individuals develop a journalling for wellbeing routine.
- On Fridays - Meet on Zoom to explore each of the six writing tools used in the program. Learn about each tool and its purpose, and practice using that tool.
- On Mondays and Wednesdays, join in optional Zoom practice sessions to help you build your journalling practice
- register through Portal or email Lynn Long (l3long@uwaterloo.ca) for more information
Don’t worry if you miss a session, all of the content is also available on the Journalling for Wellbeing LEARN site. Self-register and join Homepage - Journalling for Wellbeing
New for Winter 2025! VR for Workplace Wellbeing Winter Drop-In sessions
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The Conflict Management Office (CMO), with support from the Staff Enhancement Fund (SEF) and in cooperation with the Dana Porter and Davis Centre Libraries, brings you the VR for Workplace Wellbeing initiative. The VR for Workplace Wellbeing initiative has placed three Meta Quest 2 headsets in each of the Dana Porter and Davis Centre libraries. The headsets have been preloaded with the Nature Treks VR app and are available for all University of Waterloo staff (part-time, full-time, casual, and student staff) to sign out for one-hour intervals at the circulation desks in these libraries.
Location: Dana Porter Library, 3rd Floor Learning Lab |
Our New Name
In order to promote clarity on campus, moving forward, our office will simply be known as the Conflict Management Office.
- Will your services change? No, we will still offer all of the same services that we have in the past.
- Can I book an appointment to discuss an issue related to human rights? Yes, we are one of several offices on campus whose staff are knowledgeable in this area. You can still book an appointment with us to discuss such concerns.
Postdoc Virtual Drop-in
The Conflict Management Office will host a Zoom drop-in session for post-docs on the last Thursday of every month. This is available to any postdoc seeking advice on navigating difficult conversations with supervisors or colleagues, using effective communication, handling uncomfortable situations, and more. Upcoming dates include:
Sep 26, Oct. 31, and Nov. 28 at 2:00 PM
https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/91057297355?pwd=WtaoEEUlbR9QcQSRVekHfqjAuRGcjy.1
Remember that staff in the Conflict Management Office are available to meet with you individually as well. Email Lynn Long (l3long@uwaterloo.ca) to learn more.
Difficult Conversation Wednesdays
Are you having difficulties with a friend, a classmate, a supervisor, or colleague? Do think you may need to have a difficult conversation? Are you unsure how to begin? Do you wish you had someone to listen and provide feedback as you consider your approach? The staff in the Conflict Management and Human Rights Office are setting aside Wednesday especially for difficult conversations.
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Email l3long@uwaterloo.ca to set up a time.
If Wednesdays don’t work for you, we are able to meet other days as well.
Maintaining Effective Relations with your Supervisor: A Microlearning Series for Graduate Students
Microlearning is an educational concept based on The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve (Shail, 2019). It involves presenting content in "bite-sized" chunks, interspersed with opportunities for application and/or reflection in order to reinforce key concepts and improve knowledge retention (Kang, 2016; MacLeod, Reynolds, & Lehmann, 2018). Providing content that is available "on-demand" for self-directed and individualized learning, is also part of a microlearning strategy. Read more about micro-learning.
Each of the short (7-15 min) videos is accompanied by a reflective worksheet that facilitates a self-directed, self-paced learning experience for busy graduate students.
Although these modules are on the longer end of what is usually considered microlearning, they are still much shorter that the former 90-120 minute workshop format and are designed to facilitate reinforced learning and application of key concepts in a self-directed, individualized learning format.
Part 2:Green Zone Tools 1: Theory
Part 3:Green Zone Tools 2: Application – Case Study
Part 4:Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Relationship Repair
Part 5:Blue Zone Tools 1: Theory
Part 6:Blue Zone Tools 2: Application – Case Study
Part 7:Blue Zone Tools 3: Planning Ahead
Part 8:Recognizing the Red Zone