Spring Dates: Monday's, February 26 & March 4, 11, 2024 from 4-5pm

Students will gain information that will increase the ability to understand the nature of stress, learn about strategies for managing stress, and how to lower their personal stress levels.

The Anxiety Toolbox is a 3-part psycho-educational workshop. This workshop is most helpful for students who are new to anxiety management. The series consists of three weekly, 1-hour skill-based in-person sessions. Participants receive a workbook to keep with additional exercises and information.

This psycho-educational work group will meet in-person every Monday for 3 weeks.

Register here

This training offers a micro-credential and open badge. Micro-credentials are unaccredited competency-based certificates granted to individuals who have completed a non-academic educational training or program. Open badges are verifiable micro-credentials that can be shared through social media or LinkedIn. 

The Assisting Students in Distress Folder is a quick reference guide that helps identify common signs of student distress or crisis and directs faculty/ staff through campus protocol to clarify whom they should contact in the event of a mental health emergency. The folder also provides tips for how to approach a student who may be in distress and provide them with resources on or off campus.

• Lecture style-focused, using the ‘Red Folder’ as a guide
• Option of a staff or student-focused presentation
• Camera: Not Required
• Mic: Necessary for Q&A participation or use chat box feature
• Includes interactive vignettes and real-life examples
• PDF version of the Red Folder will be provided during the presentation
• 60 minutes

Find more information on assisting students in distress here.

This training offers a micro-credential and open badge. Micro-credentials are unaccredited competency-based certificates granted to individuals who have completed a non-academic educational training or program. Open badges are verifiable micro-credentials that can be shared through social media or LinkedIn. 

Spring Dates: February 22, 2024 4-5pm & April 9, 2024, 5-6pm

This experience incorporates evidenced based elements of dialectal behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and psychoanalytic therapy and is designed to help you strengthen your ability for managing stress and overwhelming emotion. Emotional and cognitive exercises to improve your ability to express emotions effectively will be interwoven throughout this experience.

Register for the February 22, 2024 4-5pm session here

Register for the April 9, 2024 5-6pm session here

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) at the UMB Student Counseling Center is a skills-based training course that teaches participants how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders.

Topics Covered include:

• Depression and mood disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Trauma
• Psychosis
• Substance Use disorders

Once completed, participants will take a comprehension exam and receive a nationally recognized certification as a Mental Health First Aider. Training content and instructor certification provided by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.

A student counseling center team member will present the ins and outs of our services. They will answer any questions about SCC's current services and our limitations.

• Lecture style presentation
• No camera or mic necessary
• 30 minutes

Spring dates: January 22, 2024, February 26, 2024, March 25, 2024, April 22, 2024, all from 12pm-1pm

Research has shown that mindfulness meditation can help with stress, depression, anxiety, sleep, studying, and pain. Students are invited to meditate or relax at their own pace under a simulation of stars and aurora while the SCC provides a meditation space for an hour.

Students are encouraged to meditate for however little or much they would like; a 10-minute guided meditation will be facilitated by SCC staff beginning at 12:10pm then again at 12:30 pm.

More information here

Spring Dates: March 19, 2024 4-5pm

Learn evidenced based ways to talk to yourself and to others with warmth and compassion without falling into the trap of toxic positivity and invalidation. Join this discussion and practice of embracing the unique human emotional experience.

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