Education
Mental Health and Well-being Training and Workshops
SFU Health Promotion offers on-demand workshops and services in support of mental health and well-being. These are offered free of charge to all SFU departments and groups.
The below list highlights the workshops and outreach we provide to students, faculty, and staff. We can work with you to:
- Tailor the training and workshops to meet the needs of your students, staff, or faculty groups
- Brainstorm ways to embed the workshops into existing curriculum and programs
- Determine an optimal delivery method (i.e. level of interactivity, virtual or in-person)
To explore further opportunities within your department or faculty, please email us at health_promo@sfu.ca.
Workshops and Presentations
Information Booth
Information Booth
Target audience: All students
Time: Flexible
Learning outcome:
Increase awareness of services we offer
Health Peer Outreach
Health Peer Outreach
Volunteer Health Peer educators are trained in planning and providing health campaigns in collaboration with campus partners.
Target audience: All students
Time: Flexible
Learning outcome:
Further understanding of positive health behaviours and lifestyle choices to support academic success, and physical and mental well-being
Introduction to Wellness
Introduction to Wellness Workshop
Target audience: Undergraduate students
Time: 50 minutes
Learning outcome:
- Reflect on the concept of wellness and how one’s upbringing and culture can play a role in how we understand it
- Recognize different mental health models and the broader systems that influence one’s experience of health
- Practice strategies that support wellness
- Increase awareness of mental health and wellness services and supports available
Managing Stress and Cultivating Resilience
Managing Stress and Cultivating Resilience Workshop
Target audience: Undergraduate students
Time: 50 minutes
Learning outcome:
- Describe the relationship between stress, success, wellness and resilience
Practice strategies that reduce stress and build resilience
Identify key mental health services and supports available at SFU
Thriving in Graduate School
Thriving in Graduate School
Target audience: Graduate students (TAs/TMs)
Time: 1 hour
Learning outcome:
Learn evidence-based strategies for building your own resilience
Increase awareness of support services for mental health and well-being at SFU and the role graduate students can play is assisting students in distress
Identify concrete strategies for creating a positive and engaging learning environment that enhances well-being
Supporting Your Students: Mental Health & Well-being
Supporting Your Students: Mental Health & Well-being Workshop
Target audience: Faculty, instructors, staff and/or students
Time: 1 hour
Learning outcome:
Learn practical strategies for taking care of your own mental health and well-being
Increase awareness of available support services for mental health and well-being at SFU
Understand staff and faculty roles in recognizing and referring a student for support
Identify ways for embedding well-being in learning environments
Contributing to a Healthy Campus Community
Contributing to a Healthy Campus Community Workshop
Target audience: Faculty, instructors, staff and/or students
Time: 1 hour
Learning outcome:
Understand the Healthy Campus Community vision, Areas of Action, and current projects
Determine areas of alignment with the design and delivery of your course, policies/processes, and physical spaces
Increase awareness of support services available at SFU
Online & Virtual Resources
Student Initiatives
Over 1000 students were reached through in-person events, and over 3000 were engaged via synchronous and asynchronous virtual programs, outreach and communication materials.
- 2021/2022 Report