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 our Groups FAQ.
Groups and Workshops Calendar Fall 2024
We've designed a helpful student services calendar with links to upcoming events for Fall 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
Mindfulness Skills & Healthy Thinking 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: Fridays, from September 27 to November 1, 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
Location: Online through Zoom
Registration: Fill out this form
Sharing Circle
Sharing circles provide space for individuals to come together, share their experiences, and connect. Recognizing the often complex landscapes students navigate, we offer safer and braver spaces for exploring and navigating challenging realities. Sharing circles are an opportunity for personal growth and community building.
Dates: Tuesdays, Oct 1, 8, 15 & Nov 5, 12. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: In person (Waterfront Campus)
Registration: Fill out this form
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: Thursdays, from October 3 to 31, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Location: In person (St. James Campus)
Changing 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: Wednesdays, from October 9 to November 6, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Online through Zoom
The Inner Well Group: Connecting with the Embodied Self
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 their body's wisdom and emotions to understand themselves better and feel rejuvenated.
The group uses therapeutic dance and mindful movement. No prior movement or dance experience is needed to participate. The group aims to create a supportive and non-judgemental community where every student can be as they are.
It’s important to be able to attend all sessions, but students can join up until October 17.
Dates: Thursdays, October 10 to November 7, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: In person (Waterfront Campus)
Registration: Find out more about this group
Questions: nadia.stolpner@georgebrown.ca
Changing Thoughts Group: 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: Wednesdays, from November 6 to December 4, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Online through Zoom
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: Thursdays, from November 7 to 28, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Location: In person (St. James Campus)
The Inner Well Group: Connecting with the Embodied Self (VIRTUAL)
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 their body's wisdom and emotions to understand themselves better and feel rejuvenated.
The group uses therapeutic dance and mindful movement. No prior movement or dance experience is needed to participate. The group aims to create a supportive and non-judgemental community where every student can be as they are.
It’s important to be able to attend all sessions.
Dates: To be offered in Winter 2025, dates TBA
Location: Online through Zoom
Registration: Fill out this form
Questions: nadia.stolpner@georgebrown.ca
Student Food Access and Empowerment Group
This group is a safe and inclusive space to learn about accessing food resources and connecting with the college community. Students will have the opportunity to discuss how food contributes to physical health and emotional well-being.
Dates: TBD
Location: Online over Zoom
