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Counselling Workshop Descriptions

Acing Multiple Choice Tests will provide you with strategies for successfully preparing and writing multiple choice tests and exams.

Better Grades: Try Something New - You go to class, you review your notes, you hand in assignments on time and still your grades are not where you want them to be. You need to analyze what’s working and what’s not, and try something new. An answer is addressing at least one of the following – Note Making Skills, Understanding Multiple Choice Tests, Test Anxiety, Memory Strategies.

Common Cents: Managing your Money is a workshop that will help you improve how you handle your money. You’ll learn how to create a personal budget and understand more about handling your needs, wants and assessing both your income and your expenses.

Money Management is also offered online.
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Countdown to Finals will help you identify challenges you may face in preparing for finals get you started with a plan of action to get the most out of your studying.

Countdown to Midterms will help you identify challenges you may face in preparing for midterms and help you get started with a plan of action to get the most out of your studying.

Getting it Together & Keeping it Together will provide you with techniques to set academic goals and stick to them! Both long term goals and short term goals will be explored in this workshop.

How Not to Get Your Grrr On - Anger is simply an emotion that all of us experience. What can be destructive and scary about anger is how it is expressed. In this workshop we will look at what underlies the emotion of anger, ways of understanding anger and how to find healthy, constructive ways to manage our anger.

How Not To Read Your Text Book
* Bring a Textbook with you to the workshop

Do you know the difference between a novel and textbook? Are you behind in your assigned readings, coloring the pages in with highlighter, not having any idea what you just read? Read smarter not longer. Learn how your texts can help you read and learn more effectively.

Effective Team Contracts -Taking the time to get to know each other, to set out specific expectations and time lines is essential to effective team work. You will have an opportunity to work through the elements of a contract and receive a template for your current or next team project.

Learning and Study Strategies will explore strategies based on brain research to help you study smarter not longer. Learn a strategy to keep up with weekly reading assignments and turn class time into learning time.

Map Out Your Career Path workshop aims to help you gain control of your future and become aware of what you need to do to plan out your career. You will learn
about ways of identifying careers that are suited to you, the importance
of career research, how to break into your field, and how to find out
about options for further education to increase your marketability.

Multiple Intelligences: Not how smart you are but how you are smart: Identifying and understanding our most developed intelligences helps us to choose the most effective strategies for learning and team work. It may be our ability to understand and cooperate with others (Interpersonal Intelligence), our ability to manipulate physical objects (Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence) or to learn and express using rhythm and melody ( Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence). Learn about applying your intelligences to best advantage.

Memory: Tips & Tricks Find out how memory works and practice using proven strategies. In- creasing memory skills is not about the ability to remember - It is about choosing the right strategy.

Netiquette, or “network etiquette” in a high tech world will help increase your awareness of issues related to sending emails, text messages, and using your cell phone, mp3 player, laptop or any other gadget you own appropriately and effectively in the College or a work setting.

Note-Making will help you learn different note-making strategies, develop a personal technique and improve your ability to learn from lectures and textbooks.

Sleep Better, Work Smarter will help you learn more about the importance of sleep and give you strategies to determine how to improve your sleep.

Stress Management will help you identify major stress factors in your life and explore practical solutions to manage and/or change them.

Stress Management Workshop is also offered online.
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Studying with Children Around: This workshop is for students who are parents/guardians. You will learn how to study at home effectively– even with your kids underfoot!

Succeeding as a Mature Student is a workshop that will allow mature students to share ideas about their unique challenges as students and learn effective ways to be successful at College.

Succeeding as a Second Career Student: If you are a Second Career Student, come to this workshop to meet other students in the Second Career program. This workshop will give you an opportunity to learn and share ideas and information about the program as well as gain effective strategies to be successful during your College experience.

Three Steps to Effective Presentations - Getting Started (organizing), Assessing Strengths (designing the format), Communicating Effectively (appealing to all sensory modalities). If that makes sense to you, join us to share and discuss strategies. If that scares you, join us to learn how you can deliver an effective presentation, regardless of your speaking ability.

Time Management will provide you with helpful information and strategies around managing your time. Using techniques learned in the workshop, you will begin to develop your own approach to managing your priorities.

Turn Your Worry into Positive Thinking

Worrying can be both valuable and debilitating Discover the benefits of shifting your negative thoughts and worries into a more positive and productive way of thinking.

Understanding Your Learning Style will explore your strengths in learning and help you recognize how you best take in and understand new learning for optimum use of your class and study time.

Understanding Your Learning Style is also offered online.
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What’s What: Get Organized: Do you want to figure out how to organize you schoolwork? Come and discover how simple it can be. You will learn easy techniques that will help you succeed in your college program.

All workshops are not offered on every calendar. Check the current schedule and if you have a request for a subsequent calendar, please talk to one of the Advisors in the PAL Centre.

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Revised: November 30, 2011