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In February we are offering several excellent  opportunities to promote your wellness. We are proud to be a part of Sexual & Gender Wellness Week, (or click here for Wellness Centre Workshops & Activities) which will include a number of interactive workshops and services. Within our series of Wellness Workshops we are excited about our upcoming workshops on physical wellness (Eat Sleep Play), help Managing Your Emotions, dealing with Stress, creating Balance, finding Career Contentment, and improving your Intimate Relationships. As always, counsellors are available to help you with your personal, career and academic concerns. You can call (210-WELL) or drop by (MSC 370) to book an intake session, Career Clinic or Academic Clinic.

Grad Students! There are a number of workshop opportunities for you including FREE workshops by internationally renowned Hugh Kearns, a public speaker, educator and researcher with over twenty years of experience as a leading training and development professional from Australia. Click here for more details.

Remember to bookmark us, as we will change this page monthly, offering you new information and tips on how to manage with common student concerns such as coping with stress, managing anxiety, overcoming procrastination, dealing with relationships, making educational/career decisions and much much more.

Keeping the Happy in Happy New Year

As we move into a new year, many of us reflect on our lives and make plans to do some things differently. Often, the aim of such plans is to improve our life satisfaction and happiness. The desire to find increased happiness in our lives is reflected in the volume of information on this topic: a google search for tips for happiness generates 117,000,000 results!

What is this thing called happiness? Wikipedia defines happiness as a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. While it's not reasonable to expect that we can be happy all the time (it's normal to experience a range of emotions), we can make personal changes that can potentially improve our level of happiness.

So, what can help us to be happy? To find some answers, we can turn to the field of Positive Psychology, which started in 2005 with the goal of examining what makes us happy. One of the founders of Positive Psychology, Martin Seligman, developed the Authentic Happiness Theory. Read more.