In commemoration of Mental Health Awareness Week (May 6-12), the Mental Health Ambassadors - a program that promotes mental health and well-being to Langara students - will publicly unveil student-led displays on campus.
This year's focus is centered on the healing power of compassion, highlighting the importance of being kind and compassionate to ourselves and each other.
For Sabrina Chang, a first-year nursing student, it's about empathetic dialogue:
"For students struggling with mental health concerns, I found student-to-student conversations can really help students to open up, find the common ground between each other, and receive correct information."
Sabrina and fellow students, Taniya Tamang and Karine Chen, spent a semester putting displays together as a project, which can be viewed publicly by anyone.
In addition to the display cases, the Mental Health Ambassadors program is running a weekly series, Thriving Thursdays, for the Langara student community throughout the summer which highlights a different well-being theme every Thursday.
- May 9 Mental Health Awareness Week - Self Compassion
- May 16 The benefits of Positive Psychology
- May 23 Sleep Hygiene
- May 30 Name it to Tame It - The Feelings Wheel
- June 6 Preventing Procrastination - The 5 Minute Technique
- June 13 Ergonomics - how to work or study comfortably
- June 20 Self Compassion
- June 27 The benefits of Positive Psychology
The displays are currently set up on the second floor of the Science and Technology Building and in the Library lobby, with a third being added in the Building A main foyer next semester.
