Life Skiils and Wellbeing Workshops
Our wellbeing workshops provide practical, evidence-informed strategies that can help you understand and manage common difficulties experienced during university life.
Deadline Ready, Exam Steady:
Is this course right for me?
Target Audience: Students having anxiety or stress around exams
Exams can feel overwhelming, and it’s common for students to find themselves procrastinating, stressed, or stuck in worry. These feelings are completely normal but left unmanaged they can make it even harder to get started with revision or feel confident in your studies. This 1.5 hour workshop will introduce practical CBT-based tools to manage anxiety, break the cycle of procrastination and build strategies to stay, motivated.
This will be an 1-hour interactive workshop where you’ll learn techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts, stay motivated, and manage stress so you can focus and revise more effectively. This will be followed by an optional 30-minute stay-back session where you’ll get hands-on support to ask questions, practise the tools, and leave knowing how to use them—not just what they are.
What we’ll cover:
- Introduction and Understanding anxiety.
- Managing Anxious Thoughts.
- Practical tools to stress management.
- Developing a personal plan.
- Course Dates: 16/10/26
- Book your place here
Delivered By: Manisha Gosar and Fiona Rae
Understanding Anxiety with CBT SKills:
Is this course right for me?
Calling all students, are you affected by anxiety and would like to build some cognitive/behavioural skills to help manage your anxiety in a different way?
If the answer is yes, then you are not alone. Many students report feeling anxious during their time at university. A build-up of stress from pressures such as academic, financial, social, family and the environment as well as big life events or traumatic events can cause anxiety. Whilst most of us will feel anxious from time to time, anxiety can really ramp up and interrupt or upset our way of being, our routines and limit our activities.
Anxiety affects our minds and bodies, and the physical symptoms can be scary and uncomfortable as our nervous system fires into high alert. We can then become anxious about our anxiety and get trapped in an anxiety loop, which can affect or limit our behaviours.
Join us in this 4-week open programme as we explore all things anxiety, drawing on some psychological insights and theory and sharing examples from the therapy room that help reduce the suffering associated with Anxiety.
Participants will:
- Understand the nature and function of anxiety
- Learn the CBT model of anxiety
- Recognise links between thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and behaviours
- Develop skills to manage anxiety symptoms
- Learn strategies to challenge anxious thinking
- Reduce avoidance and increase confidence
Sessions are designed to be informal and psychoeducational; you can join at any point in the four weeks as the content repeats after week four. Participants are welcome to participate and share or equally, you can join this online resource and keep your camera off with no expectation that you must talk.
Course Dates: Commences 16th October
These online workshops are available on Fridays at 1400, just click on the link to book.
Weekly Mindfulness Drop In
Tuesday, 1200-1230, Chaplaincy
Come along to the chaplaincy every Tuesday between 1200 and 1230. Mindfulness is designed to help you learn new ways of managing difficult physical sensations, feelings, thoughts and moods. The core skills that you will learn are; a way of paying attention, on purpose, non-judgementally to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you. Mindfulness can enable you to see things differently. It can increase your sense of personal confidence and of having more options and more strength to face the different challenges in your life.
No need to book, come and meet Diane our facilitator and find some weekly peace!
Double Trouble!
Double Trouble is a Body-Doubling initiative hosted by the Disability & Wellbeing Service. Join our supportive environment to get started on difficult tasks, stay accountable to each other, and get your work done. Book your place through the Disability and Wellbeing Events Booking system, although you can also attend without booking in advance. Dates, times, and locations vary, although we will be running nine sessions across this semester.
You can book your body-doubling session by clicking on this link. Dates, times, and locations vary, although we will be running nine sessions across this semester. You can also attend without booking in advance if that’s better for you.
