Create a paper lampshade that will represent how parts of your life come together to form a whole and how that whole changes when it's lit from within. Cut, assemble, chat, and reflect with others on what it means to have balance.

• Wednesday January 22, 2025 @ 12 p.m.  Register

Create a plan to identify the goals that you've been thinking about but can't seem to achieve. Learn what works for most people and identify concrete strategies to support you in achieving the goals that really matter.

•  Thursday January 23, 2025 @ 12 p.m.  Register

Experience your brain on music, build awareness of emotions to increase your emotional intelligence, and learn more about how to leverage music for your well-being.

• Wednesday January 29, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Use art to explore gratitude, facts & feelings, joy, letting go, pleasure planning, and future thinking - all mechanics of building hope. Learn how what you create can nurture and sustain your hope despite life's challenges. Artistic skills are not required.

• Thursday January 30, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Sort through values cards to figure to out what matters most to you. Feel more aligned as you choose actions right for you, and let go of stuff that gets in the way. Keep your card sort to review and revise as your priorities change.

• Wednesday February 5, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Reflect on what you are doing when you're feeling great and managing life demands perfectly. Learn how to tap into your own best coping strategies for returning to balance when things feel out of control.

• Thursday February 6, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Generate a plan for your Reading Week that will lead to both productivity and renewed energy.

• Wednesday February 12, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Experience the power of being kind to yourself. Learn how this practice can help you reduce stress and grow your hope and motivation.

• Thursday February 13, 2025  @ 12 p.m. Register

Experience your brain on music, build awareness of emotions to increase your emotional intelligence, and learn more about how to leverage music for your well-being.

• Wednesday February 26, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Join a conversations about typical ways we protect ourselves from being vulnerable. Explore how freeing it can be to figure out how to be just vulnerable enough to grow meaningful connections and to dare more greatly in your life.

• Wednesday March 5, 2025 @ 12 p.m.  Register

Reflect on what you are doing when you're feeling great and managing life demands perfectly. Learn how to tap into your own best coping strategies for returning to balance when things feel out of control.

• Thursday March 6, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Experience mindfulness practices suited for ADHD and others with attention regulation difficulties. Learn that a mindfulness practice might be for you afterall.

• Wednesday March 12, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Improve your ability to regulate your emotional response and manage your stress reactions to exams, for improved preparation and performance.

• Thursday March 13, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Try several mindfulness practices to explore what specific ones might best suit you personally. Discuss basic concepts, what happens physiologically, and the philosophy that challenges the idea that this is one more thing we need to do well.

• Wednesdya March 19, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Reflect on what you are doing when you're feeling great and managing life demands perfectly. Learn how to tap into your own best coping strategies for returning to balance when things feel out of control.

• Thursday March 20, 2025 @ 12 p.m.  Register

Generate a plan for the Wintere exam season that will lead to both productivity and renewed energy going into the spring and summer.

• Wednesday March 26, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Join a conversations about typical ways we protect ourselves from being vulnerable. Explore how freeing it can be to figure out how to be just vulnerable enough to grow meaningful connections and to dare more greatly in your life.

• Thursday March 27, 2025 @ 12 p.m. Register

Harm Reduction & Naloxone Training is a two-hour training where participants learn about harm reduction practices, the current state of the opioid crisis in Alberta, and how to respond to an opioid poisoning. This includes how to administer naloxone, the medication used to reverse opioid poisonings. A certificate of completion is available for those that are interested.

• Monday, January 20, 2025  |  1 - 3 p.m.  |  Register Here
• Tuesday, February 11, 2025  |  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.  |  Register Here
• Thursday, March 6, 2025  |  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.  |  Register Here 

This training is being provided through a partnership with Wellness Services and the School of Nursing and Midwifery. We would also like to acknowledge the support of Safeworks Calgary in helping to create the materials for this workshop.

For more information about Harm Reduction & Naloxone Training please contact the Healthy Campus Team at healthycampusteam@mtroyal.ca.

Open to students, faculty and staff.

ASIST is an interactive and practice-based course that teaches participants how to provide suicide first aid interventions. Through completion of the training, participants will be able to:

• understand how personal and societal beliefs and values impact views on suicide
• provide tailored guidance and suicide first aid
• identify an effective safety plan and know how to implement it
• recognize important components of suicide prevention

This workshop is not recommended for people who have had a recent suicide loss.

Winter 2025

• Wednesday, February 19th, and Thursday, February 20th, 2025 |  8:30 a.m. - 4:30 pm  | Register here

To obtain certification, full attendance on both days is mandatory. As spots are limited, we kindly ask that you register only if you are fully committed to participating in the entire two-day program.

For more information about ASIST, please contact the Healthy Campus Team at healthycampusteam@mtroyal.ca.

Open to students, faculty and staff.

A 90-minute online training that teaches participants to recognize when someone is thinking about suicide and connect them to help and support. This training can be completed at your own pace. 

• To receive instructions about how to access a free training account please fill out this form.

For more information about LivingWorks Start please contact the Healthy Campus Team at healthycampusteam@mtroyal.

In partnership with the Maker Studio, join us in the Maker Studio (EL 1245) for a hands-on workshop focused on period equity and sustainability. Learn to make reusable cloth pads—an eco-friendly and cost-effective alternative to disposable products—and join in our conversations about the barriers to accessing period products and how reusable products can be a more equitable option.

At the end of the workshop, you can either keep the pads you helped make or choose to have them donated to someone in need. No sewing experience is needed and all materials will be supplied. 

• Wednesday, January 22, 2025  |  11 a.m. to 1 p.m.  |  Register
• Thursday, February 6, 2025  |  12 p.m. to 2 p.m.  |  Register

For more information about the Period Equity: Making Reusable Cloth Pads workshop please contact the Healthy Campus Team at healthycampusteam@mtroyal.ca.