Longhorn Wellness Center Offerings for Groups

BeVOCAL. Bystander Intervention

BeVOCAL – Bystander Intervention

60 minutes

Have you have ever seen a situation unfold that you wish someone would stop? BeVOCAL offers interactive tailored workshops applicable across a variety of issues to empower UT Austin faculty, staff and student organizations in bystander intervention.

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What Would You Do? Tools for Taking Care of Your Fellow Longhorns (peer-led)

50 minutes

"What Would You Do?" is a fun workshop that allows students to assess their current behavior as bystanders in common college situations. Using the principles of the BeVOCAL bystander intervention model, students will have the opportunity to think through how they would navigate different and often challenging scenarios to successfully take care of their fellow Longhorns.

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Healthy Sexuality. Safer Sex and Contraception

Sex Talk 101 (peer-led)

50 minutes

Let’s talk! In this interactive workshop, learn about introductory sexual health topics such as reproductive anatomy, pregnancy, STIs and contraception. Learn how to put a condom on correctly, team up during the Anatomy Race and answer trivia questions!

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Contraception Overview

50 minutes

This workshop gives an overview of all types of contraception and provides information on the healthy sexuality resources at UT Austin.

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Healthy Sexuality

50 minutes

This workshop gives a comprehensive overview of healthy sexuality, with a particular emphasis on college students and UT Austin resources.

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Longhorn SHARE Project. Peer Support, Mental Health and Social Connections

Active Listening and Supportive Communication

50, 60 or 75 minutes

This skill-based workshop teaches active listening and interpersonal communication skills that can be applied immediately to any relationship or environment. Participants build confidence in their skills through several 1:1 and small-group activities.

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Nurturing Supportive Communities

50, 60 or 75 minutes

This interactive workshop gives participants the tools to build a community culture that inspire active engagement, mutual care and belonging. Content and activities can be tailored to meet the needs of your group or organization.

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SHARE Circles

50, 60 or 120 minutes

SHARE Circles are a structured storytelling and processing tool rooted in indigenous practices that can be used to build deeper connection and empathy among a group of people. SHARE peers can facilitate and plan Circles around a topic or theme of your choice.

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Longhorn Wellness Peer Educators, Peer-to-Peer Health and Wellness Education

Bouncing Back: Coping with Failure and Rejection

50 minutes

We all fail sometimes – and we’re here to tell you – that’s OKAY and even helpful! This workshop normalizes the experience of failure and rejection. Through the lens of the growth vs. fixed mindset, we discuss resilience and provide concrete coping strategies when facing failure in the future (Pro-tip: you will).

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Come Up for Air: Practice Self-Care

50 minutes

Deep breaths. Stress has become such a part of our daily lives that most of us don't even realize we're stressed until we feel overwhelmed. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to manage everyday stress through self-care and relaxation techniques.

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Real Talk: Helping Friends in Distress

50 minutes

This highly interactive workshop explores how students can support their friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will learn how to start a conversation with someone they’re concerned about, ways to validate their experience and resources they can offer for extra support.

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Sex Talk 101

50 minutes

Let’s talk! In this interactive workshop, learn about introductory sexual health topics such as reproductive anatomy, pregnancy, STIs and contraception. Learn how to put a condom on correctly, team up during the Anatomy Race and answer trivia questions!

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What Would You Do? Tools for Taking Care of Your Fellow Longhorns

50 minutes

"What Would You Do?" is a fun workshop that allows students to assess their current behavior as bystanders in common college situations. Using the principles of the BeVOCAL bystander intervention model, students will have the opportunity to think through how they would navigate different and often challenging scenarios to successfully take care of their fellow Longhorns.

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Mental Health Promotion & Suicide Prevention

Come Up for Air: Practice Self-Care (peer-led)

50 minutes

Deep breaths. Stress has become such a part of our daily lives that most of us don't even realize we're stressed until we feel overwhelmed. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to manage everyday stress through self-care and relaxation techniques. This offering is great for FIGS, TRIGS, and student organizations.

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Come Up for Air: Practice Self-Care (staff-led)

50 minutes

Deep breaths. Stress has become such a part of our daily lives that most of us don't even realize we're stressed until we feel overwhelmed. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to manage everyday stress through self-care and relaxation techniques. This offering is a good fit for graduate students and mental health focused organizations.

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Helping Students in Distress (for faculty and staff only)

60 minutes

Stress is a part of every student's life. However, at times, a student's stress level may become cause for concern. Learn to recognize the warning signs and strategies for helping a student in distress.

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Real Talk: Helping Friends in Distress (peer-led)

50 minutes

This highly interactive workshop explores how students can support their friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will learn how to start a conversation with someone they’re concerned about, ways to validate their experience and resources they can offer for extra support.

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Suicide Prevention Workshop

60 minutes

This workshop gives participants the tools to support someone who may be thinking about suicide, the second leading cause of death for college students. Research shows that participants who take this workshop feel less stressed and better prepared to intervene with their students and friends when they're in distress. This workshop is available to student, staff and faculty audiences.

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mindful UT. Mindfulness and Stress Management

Strategies for Stress Management

30 or 50 minutes

Stress happens. Some stress can be helpful. A lot of stress can have damaging effects on our physical and emotional well-being. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how stress impacts us, benefits of stress management strategies and have opportunities to experience mindfulness-based stress management practices.

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Connect and Destress in Nature

50 or 90 minutes

Nature has powerful benefits on our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. And we have many nature spots on campus that can support our well-being. In this fully experiential workshop, participants will be guided through a few different campus nature spots from the UT Nature Rx Map with opportunities to notice and connect.

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VAV programming is on pause for Fall 2023, please check back in Spring 2024

Brief Intro to VAV and Resources

30 minutes

Learn about relationship violence, sexual violence and stalking, consent, healthy relationships and strategies for supporting survivors and resources available at UT.

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Crushes, Commitment, and Calling it Quits

60 minutes

Learn about relationship violence, sexual violence and stalking, consent, healthy relationships and strategies for supporting survivors and resources available at UT.

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Dating Violence and Stalking

60 minutes

This workshop discusses the dynamics of dating violence and stalking, with particular emphasis on college students. Participants will learn about power and control, cycles of abuse, barriers to leaving a relationship and strategies to support survivors.

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Introduction to Interpersonal Violence

60 minutes

Learn about relationship violence, sexual violence, stalking, consent, healthy relationships, strategies for supporting survivors and resources available at UT. Participants will engage in interactive case studies and discussion.

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Sexual Violence and Survivor Resources

60 minutes

This workshop discusses the dynamics of sexual violence, with particular emphasis on college students. Participants will learn about power and control, normalization of sexual violence, trauma response and barriers to healing. Participants will also learn skills to identify these behaviors and respond to actively engage in sexual violence prevention on campus.

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Wellbeing in Learning Environments. Cultivating Wellbeing for Academic Success.

Follow-up for Mental Health Conversations

30 or 45 minutes

This is a post-workshop to discuss the content in the Kognito modules and have participants share thoughts, questions, etc. after going through the modules.

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Growth Mindset

30, 60 or 75 minutes

This workshop discusses the research related to growth mindset and goes into strategies for developing a growth mindset, including changing fixed mindset self-talk, reaching out for help and evaluating current strategies being used and switching to more effective strategies.

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Imposter Phenomenon

45 or 60 minutes

This workshop discusses the research related to imposter phenomenon and UT student experiences with imposter phenomenon. It provides strategies for coping with imposter feelings, including developing a growth mindset.

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Motivation and Self-Regulation

60 minutes

This workshop discusses the importance of context to individual's motivation through discussing different motivation theories and how these impact both faculty and students. It discusses the connection between motivation and self-regulation, and then provides an overview of self-regulation and how to be a more strategic learner.

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Recognizing and Responding to Students in Distress

60 minutes

This workshop uses the BeVOCAL model to discuss how to recognize and respond to students in distress.

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Self-Care Practices

15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes

Depending on time and focus requested, this workshop discusses different well-being techniques and has participants practice them. Self-care strategies covered include social connection, practicing gratitude, developing a growth mindset, practicing self-compassion and focusing on physical health (sleep, movement, mindful eating).

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Texas Well-being: Promoting Well-being in UT Learning Environments

15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes

This workshop provides overview of college student well-being and overview of WBLE implementation. It gives options to faculty and staff for how they can participate. The longer version also has participants practice several well-being strategies/techniques.

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Trauma-informed Practices and Care

45 or 60 minutes

This workshop discusses what trauma is, how it impacts human beings and how to develop a trauma-informed lens when working with others.

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Turning Zzzzs into As: Healthy Sleep

60 or 75 minutes

This workshop discusses the research related to sleep and techniques for practicing healthy sleep hygiene.

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Faculty Focused Offerings

These learning opportunities are specifically designed for faculty looking to learn practices that promote well-being among their student groups.

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General Health and Wellness. Sleep, Substance Use and Overall Wellbeing

Being a Healthyhorn

30 minutes

This workshop guides students through tips for integrating health and wellness into their experience at UT Austin, as well as where to find resources and support on campus.

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Sleep SMARTS

50 minutes

This workshop provides students with learning opportunities and resources to help them access a better night's sleep. Learn about the importance of sleep, napping, rest and how to integrate good sleep habits into everyday student life.

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Substance Use 101

60 or 90 minutes

The Substance Use 101 Workshop engages your organization in a new conversation about substance use, one based in harm-reduction rather than abstinence. Topics covered include the science of alcohol and other drugs, the spectrum of use, polysubstance use, and protective strategies. This is Phase One of the SHIFT List: A Substance Use Safety Series for Student Organizations.

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SHIFT Your Culture

60 minutes

The SHIFT Your Culture Workshop empowers you to identify the values of your student organization, consider definitions of culture and the barriers to culture change, and develop a group action plan to enhance overall student well-being on and off campus. This is Phase Three of the SHIFT List: A Substance Use Safety Series for Student Organizations.

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