CAPS Workshops
By attending CAPS workshops you will be exposed to a variety of skills to help improve your quality of life and relationships. You are welcome to attend all the workshops or pick and chose the ones you are most interested in. Workshops are FREE and will be held in CAPS Group room(s). For details see Related Links, right column. Seating is limited. Contact us at 797-1012 or stop by TSC306 to reserve your seat.
If you have ideas for other workshops please let us know. If we have enough interest we may be able to initiate another workshop.
Behaving Consciously
Learn cognitive and behavioral techniques to help consciously choose behaviors consistent with your values. The workshop will be an interactive experience focused on researched approaches to impulse control. Content will be broadly applicable to drugs/alcohol, sex, pornography, exercise, procrastination, etc.
Body Image
Learn how the media influences our body image and what you can do to build healthy body acceptance.
Effective Coping
This two part workshop is designed to help students cope more effectively with the challenges of college life while they prepare for counseling. The first part surveys common concerns and presenting issues, as well as a model for reviewing thoughts, feelings and needs. The second part introduces and provides practice for value clarification and basic behavior change to help students cope. Participants will be encouraged to read brief articles and keep a one page journal of change.
- Session 1: Examines the relationship between thoughts and feelings, as well as the essential role of need satisfaction in understanding drives and actions.
- Session 2: Examines the role of values in mediating behavior and the process of habit formation as well as the process of behavioral self-management/change to eliminate self-defeating behaviors and replace them with self-enhancing behaviors.
Getting the Most out of Your Sleep
Learn how to deal with sleep problems as well as manage your sleep to get the most rest from the time you have.
Healthy and Happy
This workshop will focus on helping to understand how to make and stick to lifestyle changes like healthy eating and exercise. Explore the problems with short-term fixes and why lifestyle changes are so tricky to maintain. This workshop will help connect with why we want to make changes, explore barriers and past challenges, and develop skills to support a healthy mind and healthy body.
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Increase your ability to set boundaries with others, to make requests, and to be more effective in getting your objectives met in interpersonal interactions while maintaining your self-respect.
Joy of Depression - Authentic Happiness
This two part workshop is designed to understand the role of pain in signaling the need for change and encourages students to shift their focus from limitations to possibilities. the five dimensions of well being will be explored in concern with the value of mood states, even sadness. Participants will engage in "three good things" exercises and will explore the benefits of promoting well being.
- Session 1: Emotions and Problems Solving: Emotions are essential in the human experience, signals of patterns we want to repeat or conditions we need to change. While many factors in life are outside our control, there are some variables impacting mood we can modify. Knowing how the brain responds to key stimuli alerts us to the need for protection, support, relief or even medication. the workshop is three pronged: 1) Education to learn more about the mechanisms of depression and how to respond effectively. 2) Support in developing new thought patterns that facilitate hope and positive identity. 3) Practice reinforcing more effective responses to discouragement and challenge.
- Session 2: Authentic Happiness: Drawing on principles of applied positive psychology, Seligman's Flourish will be reviewed to understand the five dimensions of well being (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and achievement) and three simple exercises to promote happiness. Students will track three good things each day and explain how they come to pass.
Lasting Relationships-Guidelines for Building Better Connections With the Ones You Love
This two-part workshop is for individuals and couples who are interested in learning new ways to build more satisfying relationships and strengthen communication skills. We will cover the following topics: personal rights in relationships; parameters of healthy relationships; principles for maintaining long-lasting relationships; effective communication; and tips on fighting fair. Participants will benefit most from attending both parts of the workshop.
- Session 1: The Birds and the Bees - Focus is on understanding human sexual response and protecting against undesired consequences of sex.
- Session 2: Just the Way You Like It - Focus is on communication our values and boundaries with a partner and preventing unwanted sexual experiences.
Making it Through Hard Times
Learn skills for being able to cope with painful situations and overwhelming emotions
Mindfulness
This four session experiential workshop will help participants learn mindfulness skills for managing stress and living more fully in the present moment. Participants will be introduced to the concept of mindfulness, and a variety of activities related to mindfulness meditation, including the body scan, sitting meditation, and walking meditation. Participants' experiences with mindful awareness and mindfulness activities will be discussed, and suggestions for daily practice will be provided.
Social Skills
Learn communication, assertiveness, and social skills and ways to increase your support system.
Stress Management and Self Care
Learn skills to understand and manage your stress better, lengthen your fuse, and increase self-care.
The Art of Happiness
Promoting well being is an alternate version of helping. Focusing on happiness rather than depression shifts the energy in one's life toward growth. This four week workshop teaches the principles associated with personal improvement so students can evolve from a pleasant life to a meaningful life. Through group discussion, film illustration, workshop exercises and between session homework, students discover the art of possibility.
Understanding Emotions
Learn skills for understanding your emotions better and being able to use your emotions as a resource instead of being controlled by them.