Upcoming Events
safeTALK Training
Designed by Living Works, safeTALK is a 3.5-hour alertness training and certification that prepares anyone, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. The safeTALK trainer will demonstrate the importance of suicide alertness, assist participants in identifying ways people invite help, and connect them with resources to help them when they are at risk.
From Monday, July 27, 2026 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT at Location to be announced closer to training date..
Unwind Your Mind
Our brain can become more busy (and more negative thoughts intrude) when we are stressed, tired, or feeling overwhelmed.
This experiential Lunch & Learn session shares a variety of research-based tips and approaches for calming worry, anxious thoughts, and a busy brain.
The session includes:
- strategies that reboot your brain into a neutral gear
- the 2 Minute Rule to curb ruminating
- ‘soft fascination’ and other mind calming techniques
- how to decrease brain bombardment from body inputs that activate and perpetuate a racing mind
This noon hour session with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic
meets online from 12:00 – 1:00 pm on Thursday, May 28.
From Thursday, May 28, 2026 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT at Online.
Heart Smart Stress Management
A truly heart healthy lifestyle is more than exercise and diet.
The third and most important key (according to cardiologists Eliot, Bhat, Ornish and others) is stress management. Yet this component is the most neglected!
Learn practical stress management strategies that decrease your risk of cardiovascular disease (especially helpful for those with risk factors of high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, depression, tendency to hold onto anger, or a family history of heart attack or stroke).
The session includes:
- the top 3 techniques for relaxing blood vessels and easing high blood pressure and strain on the heart
- the ‘Mother Teresa effect’ for heart health & resilience
- strategies that impact heart rhythm and how to promote the desirable high heart rate variability (HRV)
This noon hour Lunch & Learn with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic
meets online from 12:00 – 1:00 pm on Tuesday, June 2.
From Tuesday, June 2, 2026 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT at Online.
Better Sleep Program
Learn proven, drug-free strategies to fall asleep (or back to sleep) more easily, and get more energy from sleep.
This skills program provides information and instruction in the cognitive / behavioural techniques most effective for decreasing insomnia and promoting more restful sleep.
It includes :
* the sleep behaviours most highly recommended by sleep researchers
* strategies for addressing mid night awakenings
* techniques to clear the mind of unproductive self-talk, worry and mental chatter
* how to avoid the ‘Big Mistake’ that prevents quality sleep
Go at your own pace through each lesson in this special online, on-demand sleep skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic.
A new lesson arrives in your e-mail box once a week for five weeks.
You have lifetime access to the lessons and can begin today!
Why wait until 7:00 pm on June 10 - you can start anytime, whenever you register, since it is on-demand!
Learn more and register at https://selfregulationskills.ca/programs/better-sleep/
From Wednesday, June 10, 2026 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT at Online.
Stress Less for Tests
Learn practical skills and strategies to decrease test anxiety
and enhance energy & performance throughout the semester and during exam periods.
Go at your own pace through the series of 5 - 15 minute lessons in this special ON-LINE, on-demand skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic.
You have lifetime access to the lessons and can begin today!
Why wait until 7:00 pm on June 17 - you can start anytime, whenever you register, since it is on-demand.
Learn more and register at https://selfregulationskills.ca/programs/stress-less-for-tests/
From Wednesday, June 17, 2026 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT at Online.
Cookie Decorating with the SRC
Come join the Student Recovery Community to decorate some cookies! Meet the facilitators, learn more about the SRC, pick up resources, stickers and buttons, and decorate a tasty treat!
From Thursday, April 2, 2026 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT at UC Courtyard.
Harm Reduction Resource Fair
Join us at the Harm Reduction Resource Fair, where organizations such as Sanguen, Stonehenge Therapeutic Community, YMCA Three Rivers, Homewood Health, WDG Public Health, SRC, Thrive HIV Prevention and Support and WEPC will be sharing valuable resources and support.
From Thursday, March 19, 2026 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM EDT at UC Courtyard .