{"id":98601,"date":"2025-01-17T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=98601"},"modified":"2025-01-17T17:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:43:51","slug":"week-of-wellness-events-set-to-help-students-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/01\/week-of-wellness-events-set-to-help-students-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of wellness events set to help students thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the busy Winter Term in full swing, Brock students are being encouraged to focus on self-care and their mental health during <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/thrive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thrive Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place from Monday, Jan. 20 to Friday, Jan. 24, the celebration of well-being and connection includes events organized by the Student Wellness and Accessibility Centre (SWAC) and Student Life and Success with support from partners from across campus and the local community.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the week is a Student Success and Wellness Fair taking place Wednesday, Jan. 22 from noon to 3 p.m. in Market Hall. The fair, supported in part by a grant from the McCall MacBain Foundation, will feature free pizza and a variety of resources, activities and supports designed to help students thrive at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>The packed schedule of Thrive Week events includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drop-in <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/285565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sleep Dreams in the HUB<\/a>, located in TH 134, from noon to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/organization\/thriveweek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gratitude Boards with Wellness Navigators<\/a> in the Computer Commons from 2 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20 and from 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Jan. 21 as well as at Thistle chalkboard from 1 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23.<\/li>\n<li>Drop-in peer-to-peer support hours with Peer Health Educator in the Wellness HUB, located in TH 134, from noon to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Friday (regular hours) as well as 1 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 and Wednesday, Jan. 22.<\/li>\n<li>The inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/284602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health Art Gallery<\/a>, featuring student artwork, in Market Hall from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/285566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Varsity Athlete Puppy Room<\/a> in the Kenmore Lounge 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/285364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Cook Along<\/a>, one of Brock\u2019s student food security initiatives \u00a0at the International Centre from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/281404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Student Success and Wellness Fair<\/a> in Market Hall from noon to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22.<\/li>\n<li>A special session of <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/281091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Koffee with Katie<\/a>, hosted by the Graduate Students\u2019 Association (GSA), for grad students in MCC 300 from 1 to 2 p.m. (drop in) on Wednesday, Jan. 22.<\/li>\n<li>Free, confidential <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/284983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STI testing at the Wellness Hub<\/a> in the TH \u00a0134 hallway from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/279860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Housing Expo<\/a>, presented by the Brock University Students\u2019 Union and Off-Campus Living, at Isaac\u2019s from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/285421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spider Plants and Mindfulness workshop<\/a>, co-hosted by the GSA and SWAC, for grad students at the GSA student lounge in MCC 300 from 9 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/283699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brock Cares: Volunteer Fair<\/a>, featuring organizations from the local community, in Market Hall from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/285570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindfulness in the HUB<\/a> from noon to 4:30 p.m. (drop in) on Thursday, Jan. 23. \u00a0No mindfulness practice experience is required.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/285626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paint me Peaceful<\/a> in the Wellness HUB from 1 to 3 p.m. (drop in) on Friday, Jan. 24. No art experience required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thrive Week is celebrated across Canada with the goal of promoting student mental health and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Students can visit the SWAC website to learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/health-wellness-accessibility\/personal-counselling-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health and counselling services<\/a>, urgent and non-urgent <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/health-wellness-accessibility\/student-health-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health care<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/health-wellness-accessibility\/sas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accessibility supports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To access 24-7 telephone crisis counselling, students in North America can call 1-833-276-2533 (1-833-BROCK33) and students outside of North America can call 001 416 382 3257. Additional crisis resources can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/health-wellness-accessibility\/crisis-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SWAC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the busy Winter Term in full swing, Brock students are being encouraged to focus on self-care and their mental health during Thrive Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":98602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,1],"tags":[2203,133,147,2479,926,9075,5056,6139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98601"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98643,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98601\/revisions\/98643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}