Building Resiliency Group [Thursdays, 9:00 am]
https://counseling.ucmerced.edu/group-outreach
A transformative and supportive group designed to empower individuals facing academic and personal challenges. Using the principles of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM), our group focuses on building emotional resilience, fostering positive narratives, and providing a nurturing community for growth. Participants will gain greater awareness their nervous system, learn to track sensations their body, practice mindfulness to ground in the present moment, reset their nervous systems, and expand their window of tolerance. Through collaborative activities and interactive sessions, participants will develop essential skills to navigate challenges, celebrate successes, and collectively rewrite their personal and academic narratives. (Health and Athletics Center, 2nd floor)
Previous Events
Spring Semester Kick-Off Events [January 17 & 18, 2024]
Kick-Off Breakfast: Enjoy a hearty breakfast while learning more about resiliency. Hear from other students who have overcome academic obstacles and implemented strategies for success.
Workshop: Let's Prepare for a Successful Semester Together!: Are you ready for a fresh start in spring semester? Join a professional academic advisor to explore effective academic habits that include S.M.A.R.T goal setting, study skills, and connecting with useful academic and personal resources. The space will provide an opportunity to work on your academic goals and get off to a great start.
Workshop: Acknowledging Adversity on the Road to Resilience: This talk will define resilience (what it is and what it isn't), factors students are facing as sources of adveristy (drawing on longitudinal studies of "GenZ"), and beginning thoughts on how to reframe adversity to promote resilience
Workshop: Storytelling Ourselves Into Being: This interactive session will focus on the power of narrative to shape our beliefs about ourselves. Writing can help us clarify what brought us to where we are and to plan how we want to move forward. To put this principle into practice, participants will have the opportunity to write their own story of academic challenges, and how they want that story to end. This will become a kind of "treasure map" for them to use as they move throughout the semester!
Looking for more resources?
- Explore the UC Merced Success Anywhere Website: https://success.ucmerced.edu/
- Connect with your academic advisor: https://advising.ucmerced.edu/who-my-academic-advisor
