This training teaches participants how to recognize and support someone who may be having thoughts of suicide. QPR is an education and awareness program that provides direction as to how to Question a person with thoughts of suicide, how to Persuade them to get help, and how to Refer the person to appropriate professional resources.
Training content:
1-hour support group for anyone struggling with disordered eating or issues with food
- All students are welcome to drop-in at any session to speak in a friendly, informal and confidential space
- The group will be facilitated by a student volunteer and a Campus Wellness clinician
- Sessions will run every 2nd Tuesday and 4th Wednesday of the month
- Sign up is available on LEADS or drop-in to any session
Learn the basics of self-care, mindfulness, meditation, and useful strategies for coping with anxiety and stress in our 1-hour Coping Skills Seminars.
Register on LEADS.
Thriving With Emotions
Would you like to know more about Indigenization and reconciliation in the university context? Join us in the FAUW Indigenization Reading Circle. Your area of expertise doesn’t matter because there are no prerequisites! Together we will work at hearing Indigenous voices and contemplate what respect for Indigenous ways of knowing and being means for universities.
All members of the UW community are welcome.
Summer 2019 sessions are:
Please join us at the Shad Waterloo 2019 Open Day Exhibits and see displays and demonstrations of the design project solutions, lecture series, workshops, and recreation activities.
The design project theme this year is "How might we help Canadians impactfully reduce our waste?".
- This group offers a safe, confidential space in which to talk about the stressors in graduate school and life, emotions (including problems with anxiety and depression), and relationships. This group can be attended on a drop-in basis - attendance at each session is not required.
- Understand how to navigate issues in your academic and personal life.
- Share your experience, obtain feedback, and explore new ways of coping with issues unique to graduate students in a safe and confidential context.
The repertoire this term includes several popular ballet overtures, as well as arias from Massenet, Gounud, Dvorak, Mozart, and Offenbach accompanied by local favourite sopranos Natasha Campbell and Autumn Wascher.
The Tsinghua-Waterloo Joint Forum on Advances in Energy and Environmental Technologies will bring together leading experts in the fields of sustainable energy management, novel energy production, biofuels, pollution mitigation, fuel cells, and next-generation rechargeable energy systems. The four-day Forum will include internationally renowned plenary speakers, scientific presentations on technological advances in energy, round-table discussions on research and entrepreneurship, and networking events.
If you haven’t explored the green spaces between the residences, Westmount Avenue, and Health Services in the Northwest corner of campus, you’re missing out. Women & non-binary faculty, post-docs, staff, and grad students are invited to a picnic (bring your own lunch) and a tour of a great lunchtime walking (or rolling or running) route.
Itinerary
Noon - Meet on Ring Road at the path to residences (across from PAC)
12:05 pm - Walk to picnic table and eat lunch
12:45 pm - Walk along path
1:00pm - End walk at the bridge to Health Services (HS)
This session will provide a simple overview of copyright, and the implications it has in your teaching. By the end of this session you will be better prepared to:
