These courses below are scheduled simultaneously on the following dates: October 2, November 6, December 4, February 5, April 2. Each of these dates is therefore an alternative offered as an opportunity to do one of the three workshops. Thus, it is possible to do more than one workshop, or even all three, if you sign up for each of them in different months.

The scheduled workshop will take place as long as a minimum of 7 people attend and no more than 15 will be admitted per shift. If you are not one of the selected people, you can always sign up for the following month or another month that suits you.

If you are interested in taking one of the courses you must sign up at the following link:

https://forms.office.com/e/S5dFaG4Mrk

Registration acceptance for the workshop/course will be communicated by email, as well as the location where it will take place (depending on which campus the registered people belong to).

 

Managing anxiety in your daily life

This workshop will teach you how to identify and understand signs, symptoms and experiences of anxiety and stress. You will learn to recognise the warning signs of excessive and unwarranted anxiety in your everyday reactions. In the workshop we will offer you strategies and techniques that can help you to prevent, control and alleviate anxiety symptoms. You will do some simple exercises to gain confidence and knowledge about how to apply, in your everyday context, some techniques to manage anxiety.

Aim: to increase your knowledge and understanding of stress and anxiety, gaining confidence to use anxiety management techniques in your everyday life. It is hoped that through this workshop you will be able to:

• Detect and understand the signs (physical and cognitive) and symptoms of excessive anxiety.
• Deal with everyday stress and anxiety.
• Learn strategies and techniques.
• Participate in individual and group exercises, checking personally which ones are useful for you.

Duration: 3 hours

 

Mental health first aid

This workshop provides you with basic skills to identify and respond to signs or indicators of mental health problems in others around you and in yourself.

What we hope from this workshop is that you will be able to achieve:

• Understand the importance of mental health first aid, i.e. know how to react appropriately to be
  helpful and not make a mental health difficulty worse.
• Recognise simple indicators of mental health (e.g. depressive moods, excessive anxiety, emotional
  dysregulation, substance abuse, etc.).
• Be familiar with the ALGEE action plan (a five-step outline used to provide mental health first aid
  to someone in crisis).
• Know how to apply the Let's Cope Diagram to help someone who shows clear indicators of being
  in crisis with mental health difficulties.
• Acquire self-care strategies for yourself and for counselling someone close to you.

Duration: 3 hours

 

Building healthy relationships: detecting and managing toxic relationships in your life

Some relationships can leave you emotionally drained. In this workshop we explore the difference between healthy and toxic relationships. We begin by identifying the warning signs of toxic relationships (jealousy, defensive communication, control, blaming, etc.). You can learn to recognise manipulation, controlling behaviour and emotional abuse. The workshop also provides you with tools to set healthy boundaries by practising assertive communication techniques (e.g. learning to say
"no" and setting priorities).

To detect and manage toxic relationships it is important to clearly recognise the characteristics of healthy relationships. For this we use a 3-step model:

1. Safety (psychological and relational) to create a positive emotional connection.
2. Emotional bonding and empathy as a basis for establishing commitment in relationships.
3. Building an open, genuine and trusting relationship system.

The workshop can be useful to prevent any kind of unhealthy relationship, but especially if you have experienced (in the present or in childhood/adolescence) any abusive, narcissistic, controlling, draining relationship. It may have been experienced in a partner, family, work or friendship environment.

Duration: 3 hours