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Self-Guided
At Health & Counselling, we have self-guided resources you can access any time. Find content to read, listen to audio recordings, watch helpful videos, and more!
If you're looking for the Wellness Wheel, the content is being updated. In the meantime, explore wellness tips and strategies with Make SPACE.
Self-Guided
Bouncing Forward is a free, non-credit Canvas course designed to help you build resilience and enhance your well-being. Join the training
This is a video series based on Bouncing Forward. In each video, you can learn about an aspect of resilience and follow along with an activity. Watch it here
SPACE is an easy-to-remember acronym that outlines five evidence-based areas of positive mental health. Do you know what it stands for? Find out here
You can find ASMR videos and other relaxing content to turn on while you study and finish assignments. We also have an art tutorial video you can follow along with. Find more
Mindfulness
Facilitator: Erika Horwitz, Associate Director of Counselling (Former), Health & Counselling
Duration: 10 minute and 25 minute versions available
Description: Mindfulness helps you become focused and allows you to rest from constant thinking. Practice being in the present and let go of worries about the future and past.
Mountain Meditation
Adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mountain Meditation
Facilitator: Sarah Parkes, Clinical Counsellor, Health & Counselling
Duration: 19 minutes
Description: This meditation uses mindfulness and visualization to foster inner stability amid the constantly changing nature of our mind, body, and surroundings.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Facilitator: Cathy Trudeau, Clinical Counsellor (Former), Health & Counselling
Duration: 10 minutes
Description: Progressive Muscle Relaxation is a technique of tensing and relaxing muscles through your body. It can help to increase levels of relaxation and decrease levels of stress and tension.
Self-Compassion: Affectionate Breathing
Adapted from Kristin Neff and Chris Germer's Affectionate Breathing Meditation
Facilitator: Sarah Parkes, Clinical Counsellor, Health & Counselling
Duration: 10 minutes
Description: This soothing meditation encourages self-compassion through mindful breathing.
Body Scan
Facilitator: Erika Horwitz, Associate Director Counselling (Former), Health & Counselling
Duration: 25 minutes
Description: The Body Scan is a mindfulness-based practice that allows us to be present with our bodies and to learn to observe and experience our bodies without judgement, analysis, or resistance. It is sometimes useful to do it before doing the mindfulness meditation as it tends to focus the mind and ground the body.
Find a space and make time to get your body moving so you can thrive at SFU and beyond.
My SSP
SFU-student-specific support program that offers support options available through Here2Talk and more including 24/7 counselling support.
BellyBio
Helps you practice deep abdominal breathing by providing biofeedback and music in sync with your breathing.
Calm
Meditation practices and sleep stories written and recorded by various individuals to help with sleep, meditation, and relaxation.
Happify
Science-based games and activities that aim to help you overcome stress, negative thoughts, and life’s general challenges.
Headspace
Learn mindfulness and meditation skills and use. guided meditations to help you manage stress and anxiety to help improve sleep, focus, and mind-body health.
Healthy Minds
Helps you deal with emotions and cope with various stressors by providing a daily mood tracker, journaling, stress buster strategies, video breathing exercises, and a problem-solving guide to help identify and develop a plan to address life challenges.
Insight Timer
Free guided meditations, music tracks, and ambient sounds to help calm the mind, relax, focus, and sleep better.
Mindshift™
Strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that aims to provide free Anxiety relief by helping you learn how to practice mindfulness, relax, and develop effective ways of thinking.
Moodmission
Provides a tailored list of 5 Missions (mental health strategies including mindfulness meditations, exercise and fitness activities, affirmations, yoga, and more) based on how you are feeling at a specific time to help boost your mood.
MyLife
Recommends mindfulness activities to help deal with stress, anxiety, and sleeplessness.
The Safe Place
Free smartphone app focused on psychoeducation and self-care for minority mental health, geared towards the Black community.
Sanvello
Provides techniques based on cognitive behavioural therapy via self-care, peer support, and trained coaches and therapists to deal with stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns.