Workshops
Our workshops provide a welcoming space where acceptance and being inclusive are priorities.
Suicide Awareness, Prevention, and Intervention
ASIST
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), is a two-day, skills based workshop for intervening with a person at risk of suicide.
Upcoming dates:
More dates to come in 2024!
safeTALK
safeTALK is a 3.5 hour suicide prevention workshop focused on recognizing warning signs and connecting others with trained caregivers.
Upcoming Dates:
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Mental Health First Aid
MHFA is delivered in two online three-hour modules facilitated live and one two-hour module that is self led. This course provides knowledge and skills to support someone with a mental health challenge or crisis.
Upcoming dates:
The Inquiring Mind
An evidence-based program designed to address and promote mental health and reduce the stigma of mental illness in an educational/student setting.
Contact: keely.cronin@concordia.ab.ca for more information!
Building Healthy Life Strategies
This 2.5 hour workshop is geared to developing and building your own stress management plan. We'll focus on skills to improve your personal and professional coping strategies by exploring how you currently respond to stress, consider other options, and help you choose strategies that can make it easier to bounce back from whatever life throws at you.
Contact: wellness@concordia.ab.ca to book a free workshop!
Substance Use and Harm Reduction
Cannabis Café
Cannabis Café is a 90 minute education-based workshop targeted for post-secondary students, developed by the University of Calgary. It consists of three major activities: Trivia, a World Café and Goal Setting. Cannabis Café facilitates meaningful and evidence informed conversations on the topic of cannabis and aims to provide students with opportunities to discuss (1) science-based information versus misinformation, (2) personal experiences and beliefs, and (3) cannabis-related stereotypes.
Contact: wellness@concordia.ab.ca to book a free workshop!
Naloxone Training
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada has seen a dramatic increase in opioid-related toxicity deaths. At this training session you can expect to learn about the opioid crisis in Canada, what harm reduction is and how it works, what opioids are, and how to properly respond to an opioid poisoning using intramuscular naloxone. You will also receive a naloxone kit as part of the training.
Upcoming dates:
Stay tuned for more dates in 2024!
Class Presentations
Faculty/Instructors/Student Clubs or Groups: Want CUE Wellness to come do a presentation to your class or group?
Contact wellness@concordia.ab.ca to book!
Some topics include:
Drug and Alcohol Awareness
Cannabis Café
Nutrition
Mental Health Resources
Stress Management
Meditation & Mindfulness
Recovery College offers courses which focus on providing resources and tools to individuals impacted by mental health and addiction challenges, and to their external supports. The courses were designed to operate in a pure peer-based environment and to help empower people of all walks of life, on their journey towards better mental health in a confidential and supportive environment.
There are no fees for program participants.
Click here to check out course descriptions and upcoming dates!
Self-Guided Workshops
Our friends at NorQuest College also have great self-guided workshops that are worth checking out!
** Please note: some of the campus resources listed in their workshops are specific to Norquest but CUE's resources can be found here.