Skill Building Workshops

Healthy relationships involve honesty, trust, respect and open communication between partners and they take effort and compromise from all parties. Learning and understanding how to maintain healthy relationships is important for overall health and well-being. After participating in this workshop, students will be able to understand:

• What is a healthy relationship?
• Ways to exhibit and recognize relational health.
• What are some characteristics of a healthy relationship?

When considering health, we often think only in terms of physical and mental health; however true wellness is much broader. A holistic approach to wellness supports the whole person and encompasses eight dimensions. Each dimension contributes to optimal health and well-being, including physical, emotional, social, intellectual, career, cultural, environmental, and financial wellness. This presentation will explore the eight dimensions of wellness, provide an opportunity for you to examine your relationship with each dimension, and discover new ways to support your health and wellness. After participating in this workshop, students will be able to:

•  Consider and explore their personal health and well-being.
• Understand the connection among the 8 dimensions of wellness.
• Identify resources and ways to enhance their relationship with each dimension.

Part 1: This workshop is designed to promote sexual health. This curriculum is targeted towards college students on UNCG’s campus, but can also beused for various populations. The workshop is the first installment of the Spartan Safety Series, and therefore only provides an overview on the basics of STIs,transmission, and preventative measures. Activities within the workshop are created for participants to promote, foster, and maintain sexual health practices and behaviors and make more informed decisions concerning their health and the health of others. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify what STIs are and how they’re transmitted.
• Identify unsafe sexual health/behavior risk factors.
• Identify some ways to engage in safer sexual practices
• Identify campus and community resources related to sexual health

This workshop is designed to promote sexual health. This curriculum is targeted towards college students on UNCG’s campus, but can also be used for various populations. The workshop is the second installment of the Spartan Safety Series which takes a deeper dive into STIs, transmission, and preventative measures. Activities within the workshop are created for participants to promote, foster, and maintain healthy sexual health practices and behaviors and make more informed choices. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify STIs (the categories, the signs and symptoms, which are treatable and
  which are curable).
• Identify unsafe sexual health practices and behavioral risk factors.
• Identify ways to engage in safer sexual practices.
• Identify campus and community resources related to sexual health.

Feeling Stressed? Want to learn more about the causes of stress and the body’s response to stress? If you answered yes, then this workshop is just the right place for you. Come and learn about ways to self-regulate to reduce dress and increase your resilience. After participating in this workshop, students will be able to:

• Understand stress and what causes it
• The body’s response to stress
• Learn ways to self regulate
• Learn ways to develop more resilience

Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils from plants (flowers, herbs, or trees) as a complementary health approach. The essential oils are most often used by inhaling them. Studies have shown that Essential Oils may help boost mood. Spartan Scents invites you to slow your mind and your body and encourages you to pause, breathe deeply, and sit in the present moment. After participating in this workshop, students will

• Have learned some ways to slow down and become present in the moment
• Incorporate a gratitude practice or create a personal mantra to enhance the experience of the scent
• Create a personalized aromatherapy inhaler to take away with them for use later