Supporting Student Mental Health and Well-being. A useful toolbox - Workshop open to USI professorial body
Equal Opportunities Service
Date: 15 October 2024 / 12:30 - 14:30
The workshop will explore various aspects of wellbeing, including mental health, worklife balance, stress management, and creating a supportive community.
We argue that our inner critic drives us to great heights, to excel and to maintain our edge. We rarely stop to see the costs it carries.
In this workshop we will explore how to support students’ mental health and well-being:
- Developing a toolbox for navigating your students’ mental health and well-being.
- Learning how to ask the right questions.
- Understanding why number of interactions matters
- Exploring having a genuine open-door policy.
- Developing effective communication
- Comprehending the role of belonging, self-worth and capability and how to foster it.
Facilitator
- Desiree Dickerson, PhD, clinical psychologist with a long research experience. She is invited internationally to talk and to run training programs on well-being and stress resilience in academia.
Teaching method
- Online LIVE sessions via Zoom
Target
- The workshop is open to the entire USI professorial body
