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Mental Health Awareness Month Events
May 2, 2024 | | 6 pm – 9 pm |
Outdoor YogaÌý
Wednesdays through May 15, 2024Ìý| Ìý| 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
Good Morning Washington features Íæż½ã½ã Center for Community Mental Health Food for Thought Gala
Íæż½ã½ã's Center for Community Mental Health event on May 2 raised $177,000 for the center to continue to provide critical services to the community. Proceeds will help provide free community health programs, emotional support, low-cost therapies and testing services, and family psychological support.Ìý.
GMU's Center for Community Mental Health raised $177kÌý
Ìýabout the Center for Community Mental Health.
Patriots Thriving Together.Ìý
Ideas for Practicing Mindfulness in College
- Take a deep breath in … release. Take 30 seconds to acknowledge all the things you are grateful for right now. It can be your friends, family, access to study, professors, nature, healthy body, ability to breathe freely, access to food and water, or other blessings.
- When you walk around campus, instead of repeating prior conversations or thinking about your next class, look around yourself and observe the trees, the people, the buildings, and the walkway. See how the breeze feels on your skin, how the ground feels when you walk, how your posture feels, what pace your arms are swinging in, and more.
- Note your thoughts or feelings as soon as something stressful arises – maybe at the back of your notebook or in a separate small journal just for writing down your feelings.
- Do a nice stretch (think of a cute dog just waking up from sleep), straighten out your arms, rotate your ankle, move your neck from side to side, take a deep breath, and release!
- When you walk, or even when you want to take a 10-second break while working/studying, repeat the mantra “Life is working for me†as many times as you like, slowly.
(Excerpt from from the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being
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Resources for Students
, a 24/7 mental health system of support that augments Mason's existing student health offerings with both on-demand and scheduled counseling, health coaching, and more.
Other mental health support systems include (CAPS), providing in-person and virtual free and confidential mental health services;Ìý and , a two-hour gatekeeping program designed to train faculty, staff, and students in how to respond to individuals who may be experiencing distress and suicidal thoughts.
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