Workshops and Programs
The Wellness Resource Center offers a variety of workshops to help students develop skills in areas like stress management, communication, healthy relationship and sexual engagement, and bystander intervention. We're happy to conduct these workshops with student groups and organizations. We'll also work with you to develop workshops that meet your needs or interests.
Block 8 Workshops and Programs
Bringing in the Bystander is an interactive workshop that uses a community approach to preventing sexual violence. Learn tips for how to become an active bystander and how to create a safe, respectful community free from sexual and relationship violence: Register now
Date: Tuesday, April 23Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Location: Tutt Library - 105
Creating Connections is a Blockly Program at Loomis hall creating an opportunity for our residents to get connected with a particular campus partner, learn about opportunities or resources, and meet staff across campus. In Block 8, the Wellness Resource Center will be sharing information and resources about substance use and harm reduction. Stop by for mocktails and tips for a safe Llamapalooza!
Date: Wednesday, April 24Time: 3:30-5:00 pm
Location: Loomis Hall lobby
Meet us at Pride Outside for a photo booth and safer sex materials! Event sponsored by Outdoor Education.
Date: Friday April 26Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Location: Yampa Field
Students, staff, and faculty are invited an opioid overdose prevention workshop where they will learn to recognize the signs of opioid overdose, how to effectively intervene with naloxone, and how to prevent and prepare for opioid overdose. Naloxone and fentanyl test strips provided Please RSVP
Date: Wednesday, May 1Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Gaylord Hall, Worner
This BIPOC support and empowerment group is for students to have a space to connect over experiences of racism and discrimination, support one another, and gain wisdom and energy from each other.
Topics discussed will vary based on members’ preferences but will broadly cover issues around the mental health impact of racism and discrimination.
Space is limited, so please RSVP to Ann-Marie Manning, LCSW at amanning@coloradocollege.edu
Time: 3:00-4:15 pm
Location: Wellness Resource Center
More info soon.
Date: Friday May 3rdTime: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location(s): TBD
Join our friend from the Counseling Center, Sam Paulin, Mental Health Professional, in the Wellness Resource Center as she leads this yoga session.
Yoga mats and snacks will be provided for the students. This is a therapeutic, beginner-friendly class to help students learn mindfulness tools to manage stress and anxiety holistically.
Date: Monday, May 6
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Location: Wellness Resource Center
Marina Fella is a registered dietician and your nutrition resource on campus! She is holds office hours at the WRC every Tuesday 2:00 - 4:00 pm. Whether it be a conversation about dietary restrictions, food allergies, fueling to optimize athletic performance, lowering our carbon footprint through food, or general guidance - she can help! Drop-ins welcome or email marina.fella@cafebonappetit.com.
Date: Every Tuesday
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: Wellness Resource Center
The Grief Support Group is an informal space to find support for grief in community, for old and new, with the awareness that there are a variety of types of grief, and that grief, can be related to many things – from the loss of a loved one, from grief and anger over continued racial injustice, to grief related to unnamed losses.
Date: Every First and Third Wednesdays
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm (First Wednesday); 7:00 - 8:00 pm (Third Wednesday)
Location(s): Shove Main Office (First Wednesday); Sacred Grounds (Third Wednesday)
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Ready To Go Programs
Bringing in the Bystander is a sexual and relationship violence prevention curriculum designed for a college audience. The overarching goals of Bringing in the Bystander are:
- Participants will understand the concept of bystander intervention and their role as members of the CC community to intervene in the case of sexual and relationship violence before, during and after an incident.
- Participants will be able to identify a continuum of inappropriate sexual behaviors, sexual and relationship violence.
- Participants will develop empathy for those who have experienced sexual violence.
- Participants will understand personal barriers to bystander intervention and techniques to overcome them, including the role that factors of identity (i.e. sexual orientations, race, gender identity, etc.) play.
- Participants will develop strategies for safely intervening in instances of sexual and relationship violence in ways that fit their given ability and skill set.
- The Basics Of Harm Reduction
- Overdose Prevention Strategies
- Recognizing & Responding To An Overdose
- How To Assist Someone Who May Need Help
- How To Use Narcan
- Fentanyl Education
Narcan and Next Generation Fentanyl Testing Strips available to anyone who attends this workshop.
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