Upcoming Events
Understanding GBV/IPV in Black Communities
Join us for an engaging roundtable discussion on intimate partner violence (IPV) and gender-based violence (GBV) within the Black community. This event will foster meaningful dialogue, raise awareness, and explore culturally specific experiences and solutions.
Discussion Topics Include:
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Historical roots of GBV and IPV in Black communities
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Cultural norms and expectations
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Barriers to seeking support
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Transformative allyship
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Black masculinity and healthy manhood
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Building and sustaining healthy relationships
Participants will have the chance to share insights, ask questions, and engage through interactive tools like Kahoot and Mentimeter. To ensure a supportive environment, mental wellness check-ins and a decompress room will be available throughout the session.
Date: October 27, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Join us in deepening understanding, strengthening community, and working together toward healing and change.
From Monday, October 27, 2025 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT at Peter Clark Hall, University Centre.
Mirrorless Monday
Come and join our CARE (Collective Approaches to Resilience Education) Peer Helpers in the UC Courtyard at our 'Mirrorless Monday Event'! Drop by to write affirmations, celebrate who you are without involving appearance, and share positivity!
Have questions about body positivity and neutrality? We're happy to chat about it!
From Monday, October 20, 2025 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT at UC (University Centre) Courtyard.
Naloxone Training
Join Student Wellness and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health for a naloxone training! Naloxone is a medication that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid poisoning to save someone's life.
This training will teach you how to identify a poisoning, the response process, how to administer naloxone, the Good Samaritan Act, and post-poisoning care. Naloxone kits will be provided!
We will be offering this training at four different times throughout the day. Come at the time that works best for you! Sessions are available at 10:00am, 11:30am, 1:00pm, and 2:30pm.
From Friday, October 24, 2025 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT at UC PCH South Wing.
Naloxone Training
Join Student Wellness and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health for a naloxone training! Naloxone is a medication that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid poisoning to save someone's life.
This training will teach you how to identify a poisoning, the response process, how to administer naloxone, the Good Samaritan Act, and post-poisoning care. Naloxone kits will be provided!
We will be offering this training at four different times throughout the day. Come at the time that works best for you! Sessions are available at 10:00am, 11:30am, 1:00pm, and 2:30pm.
From Friday, October 24, 2025 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT at UC PCH South Wing.
Naloxone Training
Join Student Wellness and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health for a naloxone training! Naloxone is a medication that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid poisoning to save someone's life.
This training will teach you how to identify a poisoning, the response process, how to administer naloxone, the Good Samaritan Act, and post-poisoning care. Naloxone kits will be provided!
We will be offering this training at four different times throughout the day. Come at the time that works best for you! Sessions are available at 10:00am, 11:30am, 1:00pm, and 2:30pm.
From Friday, October 24, 2025 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT at UC PCH South Wing.
Naloxone Training
Join Student Wellness and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health for a naloxone training! Naloxone is a medication that can temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid poisoning to save someone's life.
This training will teach you how to identify a poisoning, the response process, how to administer naloxone, the Good Samaritan Act, and post-poisoning care. Naloxone kits will be provided!
We will be offering this training at four different times throughout the day. Come at the time that works best for you! Sessions are available at 10:00am, 11:30am, 1:00pm, and 2:30pm.
From Friday, October 24, 2025 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT at UC PCH South Wing.
Draw The Line Workshop
Learn about allyship, preventing gender-based violence, and keeping your community safe.
All students welcome. Men and male-presenting students are encouraged to attend!
White Ribbon is an international movement calling for everyone, especially men and male-presenting people, to pledge to never commit, condone, or remain silent about all forms of gender-based violence. Attend the Draw The Line Workshop and learn how to be part of the solution!
FREE LUNCH PROVIDED!
From Tuesday, October 21, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT at UC 442.
Draw The Line Workshop
Learn about allyship, preventing gender-based violence, and keeping your community safe.
All students welcome. Men and male-presenting students are encouraged to attend!
White Ribbon is an international movement calling for everyone, especially men and male-presenting people, to pledge to never commit, condone, or remain silent about all forms of gender-based violence. Attend the Draw The Line Workshop and learn how to be part of the solution!
FREE LUNCH PROVIDED!
From Tuesday, October 21, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT at UC 442.
Beyond the Books Training
Beyond the Books is a face-to-face session that will first provide participants with general information on the prevalence of mental challenges and illness. It will then help participants to identify signs of troubling behaviour and give them skills to engage in a preliminary discussion to determine if referral to a professional is necessary. Participants will also learn how and where to refer appropriately in a compassionate and effective manner. This session is designed for individuals who do not have ongoing relationships with individuals but whose roles are such that they may have one-off, in-depth conversations.
Recommended for: Individuals who may be in positions to see behaviour and have conversations with students, but have no responsibility for the individuals, nor involved in regularly addressing mental health issues. Examples include: Custodians, Hospitality Staff, Instructors (faculty, TA’s, and Sessionals), Administrative Assistants, Residence Desk Staff and Porters. All U of G Students, staff and faculty are welcome to participate! Date: October 6th, 2025 Time: 3:00pm-4:30pmRegister here Cost: None Length: 1.5 hours
From Monday, October 6, 2025 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT at TBD.
Ushine in the UC
Do you have a wellness-related goal you’re trying to reach?
The USHINE Peer Mentorship Program can help you improve your mental health, nutrition, physical activity, substance use, and more!
Stop by the UC Courtyard on Monday, September 29th from 12:30pm-3:00pm to learn about resources, to have a 5-10 minute goal-setting session with a Peer Helper and/or learn about the USHINE program for longer-term support.
☕️Plus, FREE COFFEE and TIMBITS (while supplies last)
Can't make the event and want to register for USHINE to get 1 to 1 support on your goals? Register for the program at any time through the form!
From Monday, September 29, 2025 12:30 PM to 3:00 PM EDT at UC .
What's the Deal with Breathing?
It's so confusing! Everyone recommends a different breathing pattern to enhance health, increase performance, or calm anxiety.
Should I use box (square) breathing, or 4-7-8 breathing, or 5:5 breathing (coherence breathing), or Wim Hof breathing, or 4:6 breathing, or alternate nostril breathing, or.... what ?
This workshop includes:
- research findings on different breathing patterns
- the 3 components of breathing for calm or performance
- tips for breathing better, not harder
Learn tips on optimizing breathing for health and performance, practice some self-calming exercises, and bring your questions to the Ask Me Anything section.
This free public workshop on International Stress Awareness Day meets online
from 7:00 - 9:00 pm on Wednesday, November 5.
Learn more at https://www.selfregulationskills.ca/stress-awareness-day/
E-mail ksomers@uoguelph.ca for the link to this workshop.
From Wednesday, November 5, 2025 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST 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.
Why wait until 5:30 pm on November 11 - you can start anytime, whenever you register, since it is on-demand!
You have lifetime access to the lessons and can begin today!
From Tuesday, November 11, 2025 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM EST at Online.
Anxiety Skills & Strategies
Learn powerful drug-free strategies, tips, and information on how to respond and calm down the uncomfortable sensations of anxiety.
Sessions include practicing a variety of long and short self-calming strategies, along with helpful hints on cognitive and lifestyle behaviours that prevent escalation of anxiety.
These techniques are especially helpful in the self-regulation of uncomfortable sensations like :
- muscle tightness in the chest & shoulders
- feeling like it’s hard to breathe, or not getting enough air
- palpitations & skipped beats of the heart
- racing mind & anxious thoughts
- feeling panicky
This three-session skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic
meets online for an hour on 3 consecutive Wednesday evenings
beginning at 7:00 pm on November 12.
Learn more and register at https://www.selfregulationskills.ca/programs/anxiety-skills-strategies/
From Wednesday, November 12, 2025 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST at Online.
Take the Stress Out of IBS
Tackle the two greatest triggers of IBS symptoms.... diet and stress.
There is a strong relationship between our brain, our emotions, and how our gastrointestinal tract is functioning.
This program teaches the most effective relaxation, diet, and lifestyle strategies to improve this relationship and positively impact IBS symptoms.
Topics include :
- common food irritants to avoid
- beneficial eating & exercise patterns
- the relaxation techniques, stress management strategies, and 2 types of biofeedback most helpful in relaxing the smooth muscle of the gastrointestinal tract
- symptom relief tips
These approaches are helpful for those with IBS and for people with a stressed/nervous stomach who would like to better regulate their digestive system.
This practical, five-session skills program
with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic and Lindzie O'Reilly, Dietitian,
meets online for an hour on 5 consecutive Mondays
beginning at 2:30 pm on October 20.
Learn more and register at https://www.selfregulationskills.ca/programs/take-stress-out-ibs/
From Monday, October 20, 2025 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT at Online.
Better Sleep Program
Learn the most effective, 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 helpful 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 October 22 - 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, October 22, 2025 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT at Online.
STOP Worrying!
Are you spending more time worrying than working?
Worrying is a component of anxiety and you can do something about it!
Learn to curb the worry habit... and how to avoid the 5 pitfalls that escalate and perpetuate worrying.
This workshop also outlines the evolutionary advantage of constructive worry (and how to access it),
along with strategies from the 2 approaches proven to decrease worrying,
and tips for bedtime worriers.
This two-hour skills workshop meets ON-LINE
with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic
and includes brain training exercises and a variety of other techniques to decrease worrying.
Learn more and register at https://selfregulationskills.ca/programs/stop-worrying/
From Monday, October 27, 2025 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT at Online.
Decreasing Headaches
More than 1 or 2 headaches a month are too many!
Learn effective, practical, drug-free strategies to decrease tension and migraine headaches,
and to decrease headache pain.
Topics include :
- headache trigger combinations - and the ones to really watch for
- practical approaches to try as a headache is coming on
- the 4 stages in the migraine neurovascular process where you can intervene
- 4 techniques to relax your eyes, and strategies to release neck & shoulder tension
- a variety of self-regulation and biofeedback techniques that have a Grade A efficacy rating with headaches
- pain management strategies
This four-session skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic
meets ON-LINE for 90 minutes on 4 consecutive Monday evenings
beginning at 7:00 pm on November 3.
Learn more and register at https://selfregulationskills.ca/programs/decreasing-headaches/
From Monday, November 3, 2025 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST at Online.
Homecoming Safer Party Session!
Join Off-Campus Living and Student Wellness to learn tips and tricks about keeping yourself and others safe while partying! We will be providing free party kits to everyone who attends - supplies are limited and it is first come, first served :)
Plus - everyone who attends the full session will be placed in a draw for a free rugby sweater prize pack!
From Wednesday, October 1, 2025 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT at UC 441.
Temporary Tattoos and Bracelet Making: Self-love Expression
Join Student Wellness for bracelet making and temporary tattoos! We'll provide all the materials you need to design your own bracelets and try out temporary tattoos. This event has a goal of encouraging body acceptance and feeling good about yourself. You'll also have the chance to reflect on what self-love means to you and explore how you can practice it in your daily life. Come connect, create, and celebrate self-love!
From Tuesday, September 23, 2025 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT at J.T. Powell .
Consent Tote Bag Decorating: Meet the S&GBV Support and SAFE Teams
Decorate your own Gryphons Ask First tote bag while getting to know the S&GBV Support and SAFE Teams. Learn about resources, connect with peers, and take home a tote. All supplies provided—just bring your creativity!
UC Courtyard
Monday, September 22nd, 2025
⏰️ 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
From Monday, September 22, 2025 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT at UC Courtyard.