Specialized Workshops at A Glance
The Counseling Center offers specialized workshops to assist JMU students with a variety of goals, including: reducing anxiety symptoms, increasing coping strategies, managing stress, and improving self-care. These include a 3-part program (Anxiety Toolbox) and 1-part program (Cope 60). These free drop-in workshops offer numerous evidence-based strategies and interventions and are one of the quickest ways to reduce symptoms.
Anxiety Toolbox, Closure to Courage, & Cope 60
The Counseling Center specialized workshops meet for 50-60 minutes. They are structured workshops, similar to a classroom lecture. This is not a group counseling experience. You do not have to disclose personal information and process. This experience is similar to taking a course on decreasing anxiety and improving functioning. For many students who participate, they experience enough of a symptom reduction, they do not need additional clinical services. However, participants can discuss additional services with their facilitator. These programs are highly recommended as a quick and efficient way to reduce symptoms and feel better fast. Some of the program content is also available through our self-help resources.
Anxiety Toolbox:
Offers one of the quickest ways to access evidence-based strategies and interventions to reduce anxiety symptoms. This series consists of three 50-minute structured workshops that build on the information shared in each part:
Part 1:
Assists with understanding your anxiety, introduces controlled breathing for slowing down and disrupting the experience of anxiety, and provides information to assist with healthy sleep.
Part 2:
Assists with understanding the situations and thoughts that can increase and maintain your anxiety, and provides an opportunity to practice a useful relaxation technique to reduce tension.
Part 3:
Introduces alternative ways to respond to your anxiety, and provides resources to create a personalized action plan for managing anxiety.
Closure to Courage:
Offers tools and skills to help you cope, move forward, and thrive following the end of a relationship. This series consists of three 50-minute structured workshops each designed to teach different skills:
Part 1:
Assists with first steps by learning coping skills, strategies for re-establishing routines, and understanding the difficulties experienced after a breakup or relationship ends.
Part 2:
Allows you to develop a deeper understanding of yourself, explore your values and needs to know what you want from the relationships in your life.
Part 3:
Delves into the context of relationships, exploring ways family, culture, and dating trends can all impact your relationship expectations and hopes.
Cope 60
Offers the quickest way to learn evidence-based strategies and practice skills to reduce stress symptoms and increase relaxation. In this 60-minute workshop you'll practice and/or learn about:
- Breathing techniques to decrease stress and increase focus
- Muscle relaxation
- Strategies to recognize and challenge unhelpful thoughts
- Grounding techniques
- Stress management resources
Upcoming Specialized Workshop Schedule
The table below is best viewed at horizontal orientation on your device.
3/04/24, Mon.DATE | WORKSHOP | LOCATION | TIME |
---|---|---|---|
3/18/24, Mon. | COPE 60 | SSC 4049 | 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
3/18/24, Mon. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 1 | SSC 1075 | 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm |
3/19/24, Tues. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 2 | SSC 1075 | 11 am - 12 pm |
3/19/24, Tues. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 3 | SSC 4049 | 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm |
3/19/24, Tues. | COPE 60 | SSC 3105 | 4 pm - 5 pm |
3/19/24, Tues. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 2 | Miller 2106 | 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm |
3/20/24, Wed. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 1 | SSC 1075 | 11 am - 12 pm |
3/21/24, Thurs. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 3 | SSC 4049 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
3/25/24, Mon. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 2 | SSC 4049 | 9:30 am - 10:30 am |
3/25/24, Mon. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 3 | SSC 3105 | 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm |
3/26/24, Tues. | Cope60 | SSC 3105 | 10 am - 11 am |
3/26/24, Tues. | Cope60 | SSC 1075 | 1 pm - 2 pm |
3/26/24, Tues. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 1 | SSC 4049 | 4 pm - 5 pm |
3/27/24, Wed. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 2 | SSC 4049 | 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
3/28/24, Thurs. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 1 | SSC 3105 | 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
3/28/24, Thurs. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 3 | Miller 2170 | 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
3/29/24, Fri. | Cope60 | SSC 3105 | 10 am - 11 am |
4/1/24, Mon. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 3 | SSC 4049 | 9:30 am - 10:30 am |
4/1/24, Mon. | Cope60 | SSC 4049 | 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm |
4/2/24, Tues. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 1 | SSC 1075 | 10 am - 11 am |
4/2/24, Tues. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 2 | SSC 3105 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
4/2/24, Tues. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 3 | SSC 3105 | 4 pm - 5 pm |
4/3/24, Wed. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 1 | SSC 4049 | 10 am - 11 am |
4/3/24, Wed. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 2 | SSC 4049 | 11 am - 12 pm |
4/4/24, Thurs. | Anxiety Toolbox: PART 1 | Miller 2170 | 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
Visit our Workshop Schedule to see even more workshops offered by the Counseling Center.