Recovery College: Skills Development
YorkU’s Recovery College provides health and wellness programming designed to help students live their best lives. These courses – offered in collaboration with Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences – cover a wide range of topics, including personal growth, mental health recovery and overall well-being. What makes them unique is their co-creation and co-facilitation by YorkU students, ensuring the content is grounded in lived experience. This collaborative approach fosters a supportive, relatable, and empowering learning environment.
Skill Building
Starting university is a huge transitional period of life that requires fundamental changes to your lifestyle, building routines from scratch, and it can quickly get overwhelming. In this 4-week series, we will take a look at simple yet effective strategies that can easily be incorporated into daily routines and empower you to feel more in control of your life and confident in your ability to successfully navigate these changes
What will you learn:
Week 1 | Self-Care 101: Understanding and Meeting Your Basic Needs
Week 2 | How to Make Space and Step-back
Week 3 | Managing Exam-Related Anxiety
Week 4 |Motivation
While you’re welcome to attend individual sessions, participating in the full series is highly encouraged, as each week builds on the last to create a cohesive and meaningful learning experience. Participants who attend at least three out of four sessions will also receive a certificate of completion.
