Counseling Services Events Schedule
Spring 2012
April 3 Farnham Hall Gear Up for Life Series. Gear Seven: Turning with the cycles of life. Are you afraid of change? Does it upset you when someone else changes your plans? This interactive workshop focuses on the many transitions that students work through while they are in college - big and small! We will explore how past transitions and stages in your life impacts you and others in your life. Learn how to acknowledge tension in these transitions and how to approach them in a healthy manner. Free snacks and raffle prizes!
Location: Farnham Hall Program Space, Time: 7-8:30pm
April 10 Gear Eight: Surrender. Do you always manage to somehow take a bad situation and make it worse? Do you thoughts get in the way of you being successful in life? This interactive workshop that focuses on how to get out of our own way. We will work through judgment of self, others judgments of us as well as, our judgments of life in general and how this impacts our daily functioning. Free snacks and raffle prizes!
Location: Farnham Hall Program Space, Time: 7-8:30pm
Apr-17-2012
Meditation and Chakra Workshop
7:00pm - 8:30pm
We all want the same things in life - happiness, fulfillment and well-being. It shouldn't be so hard - it looks so simple. But life happens and things can get in our way. We know when we are out of balance, but what can we do about it? Join us to learn about chakras and the energy they bring to our lives. Gain insight about your inner world and learn to trust your experiences, be true to yourself and not judge others by outer standards. Farnham Hall Program Space
April 23, 2012 Earth Day Yoga Celebration. Unplug and turn off your lights, phones and computers and join us in the Academic Quad as we give back to the Earth through Sun Salutations! Monday, April 23, from 12:30 -2:00pm. (Registration begins at 12:00pm)
*FREE yoga mats to the first 50 students to sign up!
Bring your mat, wear comfy clothes and bring a refillable water bottle.
Active Minds Student Organization in collaboration with University Counseling Services, The Recycling Center, The Center for the Environment, The Fitness Center and Health and Wellness Center are sponsoring the "Unplug...Tune In and Recharge" Earth Day Yoga Celebration, on Monday, April 23, 2012 from 12:00-2:00pm in the Academic Quad.
"The notion of a salutation to the sun is to pay your respects and surrender to the universe. This can be taken as a metaphor to let go physically - the mind follows as you move 'inside' the practice." ~Author Unknown
While giving back to the Earth and letting go, we shift from our electronic world and have the opporunity to go green for a little while! Yoga gives us the opportunity to connect our minds, bodies and spirits. Earth Day Yoga will allow us to do something healthy and give back at the same time! If we each do one small act of green, our world would be much healthier.
So join us for this fun afternoon, get moving and recharge your life. A $1 donation is suggested and will be collected by ACTIVE MINDS. All proceeds will go the Sustainable Southern efforts on campus and the Fellowship Place in New Haven, that supports those suffering from mental illness.
April 24 Farnham Hall Gear Up for Life Series. Gear Nine: Unity. Do you envy others? Do other's behaviors make you resentful? This interactive workshop that concludes our semester long series. Focus will be on how each of us is on our own path, but that we are all connected on a much larger journey. Learn how we are a part of everything and that connection to the big picture can become a foundation for our life. Work through fear, envy, resentment, in order to live with more compassion. Free snacks and raffle prizes.
Location: Farnham Hall Program Space, Time: 7-8:30pm
Other Events/Committees with Dates to be determined:
RAOK Bake NO Sale, Date TBD: Bake an item to donate to this worthy cause. We are handing out goodies to all students during finals week to show support for them and create a sense of community and connectedness on campus. Students will sign a thank you card to show their appreciation to a campus department, individual or organization on campus for their hard work and commitment to students (maybe student life this semester)
Location: Engleman Rotunda, Time: 8:30am...til the food is gone! (usually about 1pm)
RAOK Pay it Forward Day, Date TBD: Work with campus constitutents to organize this event. Residence Life, Campus police and counseling services will work together and be on the lookout for "do-gooders" on campus. That student will be verbally commended for their kind act and given a coin representing their kindness....they will be encouraged to pay it forward on campus to others they see doing a kind act.
Location: Throughout campus
Active Minds and RAOK Free Hugs Day, Date: TBD: Spread warmth and support on campus by providing hugs to passersby in the academic quad on campus.
Location: Academic Quad, time: TBD
