What are Wellness Skill-Building Groups?
Join free, skills-building groups offered by the Counselling & Student Well-Being department.
What will you be doing during these groups?
Learn techniques to help you better manage your thoughts, behaviours, and emotions in a supportive community of other students.
To learn more, please see Groups FAQ
Groups and Workshops Calendar Winter 2024
We've designed a helpful student services calendar with links to upcoming events for Winter 2024. Please download the PDF below to make sure you don't miss out!
How to join
To join these groups, book an intake appointment with a counsellor and let them know which group you're interested in. To request an appointment, either email letstalk@georgebrown.ca or book online through the Counselling Student Portal. Spaces are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Available Groups
Virtual Stress Management Workshops
Learn about stress, its impacts, and practical skills to help you better manage it.
Join anytime, attend as many weeks as you can. Topics will include: Stress and the Brain; Self Care; Stress and Our Thoughts; Perfectionism and Procrastination; Imposter Phenomenon; and Social Health, Isolation, and Stress.
Dates: Wednesdays, from May 15 to June 19, 1 to 3 p.m.
Location: Online through Zoom
Registration: Fill out this online form
Changing Thoughts/Behaviours Group
Learn techniques to help you better manage your behaviours, thoughts and emotions.
It’s important to be able to attend all sessions.
Dates: Thursdays, from May 16 to June 20, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: In person (SJ campus)
Changing Thoughts to Improve Depression, Anxiety or Self-Criticism
Learn techniques to help you better manage your thoughts, behaviours, and emotions to improve depression, anxiety and self-criticism.
It’s important to be able to attend all sessions.
Dates: To be offered in Fall 2024, dates TBA
Location: Online through Zoom
Healthy Emotions Group
Learn mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques to help you deal with stress, difficult emotions, depression and anxiety, impulse control issues, addictions and excessive behaviours.
It’s important to be able to attend all sessions.
Dates: To be offered in Fall 2024, dates TBA
Location: In person (SJ Campus)
Healthy Relationships Group
Learn interpersonal effectiveness and emotion regulation techniques to help you deal with stress, difficult emotions, depression and anxiety, impulse control issues, addictions and excessive behaviours.
It’s important to be able to attend all sessions.
Dates: To be offered in Fall 2024, dates TBA
Location: In person (SJ Campus)
The Inner Well: Therapeutic Movement/Dance Group (Online)
This group is designed to create a space for students to reconnect with themselves, learn body-based skills to reduce stress, become more aware of own emotions and body wisdom to better understand ourselves and cultivate self-compassion.
The group uses therapeutic dance, mindful movement and music in a supportive non-judgemental community where every student is welcome to show up and be as they are. No prior movement experience is needed to participate.
It’s important to be able to attend all sessions.
Dates: To be offered in Fall 2024, dates TBA
Location: Online through Zoom
Questions: nadia.stolpner@georgebrown.ca
The Inner Well: Therapeutic Movement/Dance Group (In Person)
This group is designed to create a space for students to reconnect with themselves, learn body-based skills to reduce stress, become more aware of own emotions and body wisdom to better understand ourselves and cultivate self-compassion.
The group uses therapeutic dance, mindful movement and music in a supportive non-judgemental community where every student is welcome to show up and be as they are. No prior movement experience is needed to participate.
It’s important to be able to attend all sessions.
Dates: To be offered in Fall 2024, dates TBA
Location: In person (Waterfront campus)
Questions: nadia.stolpner@georgebrown.ca
Mindfulness Skills & Healthy Thinking drop-in Group
Learn skills to reduce stress, overwhelm or anxiety, to find more calm inside, be kinder to yourself and to experience greater well-being.
We will practice different forms of mindfulness in this group. No prior experience with mindfulness is needed to participate. Join anytime, attend as many weeks as you can.
Dates: dates TBA
Location: Online through Zoom
Student Food Access and Empowerment Group
To create a safe and inclusive space to learn about food, accessing food resources, and connecting with community in the college environment. Students will have the opportunity to discuss how food contributes to physical health and emotional well-being. The group will be facilitated by Torsten Hamelin, Good Food Coordinator/Student Life and Hadassah Rais, Counsellor and Eating Disorder Specialist
Dates: To be offered in Fall 2024, dates TBA
Location: Online over Zoom
