Outreach and Presentations | Faculty/Staff
Health & Well-Being Programs
Employee Health & Well-Being, along with campus partners, offers a variety of programming that faculty and staff can request to support holistic well-being. Topics include stress relief, relationship wellness, sexual health, supporting survivors, overdose prevention and response, and more.
Faculty and staff can request the following types of programs:
Consultations
Health Promotion staff can provide information or resources on how to integrate health and wellness topics (e.g., active listening, mental health resources, safer substance use, sleep hygiene, etc.) into your classes/coursework or your work with student employees.
- Department: Health Promotion
TBD
Cultivating workplaces for mental health and well-being
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Managing difficult workplace situations and personnel matters
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OVA provides free and confidential support, consultation, advocacy and short-term trauma counseling to all 鶹ѰBoulder students, graduate students, staff and faculty who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic, disturbing or life-disrupting event. We offer our services for those who are helping a friend, partner, family member or colleague through a traumatic experience.
- Contact: 303-492-8855, assist@colorado.edu
- Department:Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)
Description
Trainings
Join an honest conversation about suicide prevention. Participants will learn to notice the signs that someone may be having thoughts of suicide, tips for having meaningful conversations and how to connect someone to available resources.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour
Social connections play an important role in the recovery process, which can include recovery from substance use, unwanted behaviors and more. In this workshop you will learn about the process of recovery, principles and concrete strategies for being an effective support and relevant community resources.
- Department: Health Promotion/Collegiate Recovery Community
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length: 1.5 hours
Mental Health First Aid training is designed to help individuals assist someone experiencing mental health or substance use concerns or crises. Participants will learn about risk factors and warning signs, engage in experiential activities, discuss professional and self-help resources and practice a 5-step strategy to provide support. Mental Health First Aid for high education provides tailored information for college and university communities.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 8.5 hours (full day)
Provides communication, project management, and behavior change training to peer educators.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length of Presentation: 8-10 hours
- Fee: TBD
Participants will learn how to recognize and respond to an alcohol or other drug-related emergency.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour (can be tailored to the needs of the department)
This workshop is intended to be more in-depth than Supporting Student Mental Health (1 hour), but less in-depth than Mental Health First Aid (8.5 hrs). Participants will gain an understanding of why mental health is important and discuss ways to create a supportive campus environment. Participants will learn how to recognize signs of distress, respond effectively and refer someone to appropriate resources. This presentation will also review overdose prevention and response resources, de-escalation strategies and skills for supporting someone who discloses thoughts of suicide.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 3 hours
The Supporting Student Resiliency Professional Development Series provides 鶹Ѱfaculty and staff with concrete skills to better support students. Sessions focus on areas critical to student retention and success. Sessions include: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing, Supporting Survivors, and Supporting Student Mental Health.
- Faculty and staff can attend any individual session; those attending all three will receive a non-degree certificate.
- Departments can also request any session for their team.
Department: Health Promotion and Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)
Audience: Staff and faculty
Length of Training: Three sessions, 1 hour sessions; can take one session or all three
Presentations and Workshops
No one enjoys being sick. Beyond just illness prevention, understand how boosting your immunity impacts both physical well-being and mental health. WorkWell will promote the benefits, options and resources available on campus for 鶹ѰBoulder faculty and staff. Participants will receive cold care kits stocked with goodies like Liquid IV, honey sticks, hot/cold packs, hand sanitizer and more.!
- Department: WorkWell
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 20-30 minutes
Working in higher education invites unique stressors and challenges, in addition to profound and rewarding opportunities, for mission-driven individuals to come together and become stronger than the sum of their parts. This session is intended to motivate earnest conversations among participants about the responsibility we all assume in the workplace in positively constructing or negatively destructing workplace culture.
This session also asks all participants, including those in leadership capacities, to think not only abstractly but strategically and practically about Five Essentials for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being.
All staff and faculty may benefit. The facilitator is also available to present this session in isolation to a unit’s leadership team to help steer strategic direction dialogue.
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- Audience: Faculty, staff or department leadership
- Length of Training: 1-2 hours
Well-being is a multidimensional concept that reflects the various aspects of our lives; practicing well-being can lead to increased productivity and improved motivation in the workplace. However, stress associated with high-demand professional roles can have negative effects on mental and physical health, which may lead to decreased engagement, high turnover and mental and emotional strains on personal and professional relationships, among other challenging conditions related to burnout.
This session will highlight the importance of all members of a unit co-creating a work culture that allows for healthy conversations about stress and fatigue. We will discuss the factors that influence burnout and provide strategies on how, no matter what your position in a department, all individuals invested in the growth of healthy personal and professional lives can respond through an ecological perspective to employee well-being.
All staff and faculty may benefit. The facilitator is also available to present this session in isolation to a unit’s leadership team to help steer strategic direction dialogue.
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- Audience: Faculty/Staff or Department Leadership
- Length of Training: 1-2 hours
Change happens whether we agree to it or not. Be it organizational, personal or societal change, change brings about a myriad of psychological processes that, when left to its own devices, may unknowingly undermine our own interpretation and response to our circumstances.
Research in the field of human resilience suggests that psychological resilience is a learnable skill. We can learn skills to enhance our capacity to transform change into something threatening instead of something that is neutral or even an opportunity.
This session discusses how workplaces and the individuals who make up workplaces can be sturdy, bold and adventurous in the face of challenging changes. This session may be helpful, but is not exclusive, to units undergoing organizational restructuring.
All staff and faculty may benefit. The facilitator is also available to present this session in isolation to a unit’s leadership team to help steer strategic direction dialogue.
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- Audience: Faculty, staff or department leadership
- Length of Training: 1-2 hours
In our roles as educators, advisors, mentors, practitioners, and so on, we often serve as a safe harbor for students and colleagues navigating personal crises, trauma, and adversity. While this connection is deeply meaningful, it can also take a toll. This session explores the concept of compassion fatigue—what it is, how it manifests, and how we can care for ourselves while continuing to care for others.
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- Audience: Faculty and Staff
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
This session is a group process for defining norms for interactions and making agreements that uphold the values and goals of the department. Establishing ethical communication practices for resolving conflicts is a key component. Two hours is the minimum length and unit leaders and supervisors must participate.
This presentation is intended to cover general services, how to talk about disability and common questions that may come up when working with students with disabilities.
- Department: Disability Services
- Audience: Staff, faculty
- Length of presentation: 50 minutes
- Accommodate Workshop
- Working with the Student Testing Center (STC)
- Flexibility and Notetaking Accommodations
- Alternate Format
When a colleague passes away, the loss is felt uniquely and affects our security of connection, belonging and normalcy. This session offers space to acknowledge grief in the workplace, explore its emotional and practical dimensions, and consider ways we can support one another through mourning while maintaining compassion and care in our professional lives
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- Audience: Faculty/Staff
- Length of Training: 1 hour
Provides information on housing, dining and parking accommodations, the laws protecting residents and common questions that may come up when working with students with disabilities.
- Department: Disability Services
- Audience: Staff, faculty
- Length of presentation: 50 minutes
Information on what people may experience physically, emotionally and cognitively in the aftermath of a traumatic event. Can also cover how the brain and body respond to traumatic experiences/neurobiology of traumatic events. Learn about the healing and recovery stage.Presentation geared towards people already involved in a helping role or for a class discussing trauma.
- Department:Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 1-1.5 hours
In this workshop, you will learn the process students go through when making a change and how to best support students at each stage. You will gain effective communication skills to support students in clarifying and implementing their goals.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 1 hour (can add 30 minutes for additional practice)
This presentations provides psychoeducation on intimate partner abuse, with an emphasis on increasing awareness and understanding of domestic violence, exploring its psychological impact, and empowering both survivors and those who support people with abusive partners) with knowledge of their rights, options, and resources.
- Department:Office of VictimAssistance
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour
This session focuses on how to integrate effective classroom practices and norms that foster a respectful and productive environment and minimize problematic behavior. Participants discuss real-life scenarios and practice responding effectively to situations in the classroom. Our Establishing Course Expectations and Managing Classroom Dynamics Guide is a resource for this session.
Even the most accomplished educators and professionals can quietly question their own competence, feeling like they don’t truly belong or may be “found out.” This session explores the imposter phenomenon—its roots, how it shows up in academic environments and strategies to foster confidence, connection and authenticity among faculty and staff.
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- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 1 hour
More information coming soon.
- Department:Faculty Staff &Assistance Program
- Audience: Faculty and Staff
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
The benefits of getting outside don’t have to come from long adventures in the mountains or strenuous physical activity! Learn how time spent in nature keeps us mentally, emotionally and physically well and how to stay healthy in Colorado’s wild weather fluctuations. Participants will receive items like cooling towels, hydration packets and more to help them cool down, warm up and stay safe in the elements.!
- Department: WorkWell
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 20-30 minutes
A bite-size session exploring how our gut health influences both our mental and physical well-being. We will share four simple ways that can help support digestion, stabilize blood sugar, reduce stress and promote a more balanced mood over time. Participants will receive a WorkWell lunch bag while supplies last.
- Department: WorkWell
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 20-30 minutes
This presentation is intended to cover general services, how to talk about disability and common questions that may come up when working with students with disabilities.
- Department: Disability Services
- Audience: Staff, faculty
- Length of presentation: 50 minutes
Attitudes and schemas are developed about people and groups of people that affect our understanding and actions without our awareness or intentional control. This workshop examines common mental shortcuts and key areas where they affect our work, interactions, and decision-making processes. Participants explore personal and group practices that can help reduce mental shortcuts and improve productivity, engagement, and success. Our Practices that Minimize Cognitive Bias handout is a resources for this session.
This session will focus on learning more about vicarious trauma, compassion satisfaction vs. fatigue, burnout and self-care. Explore barriers to caring for ourselves and how to look at new ways that can be accessible to everyone.Presentation geared toward students, staff and faculty who work in fields/roles that can have vicarious trauma (hearing about other people's traumatic experiences). As Audre Lorde says, “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.”
- Department:Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 1 hour
This skills-based session focuses on addressing difficult interactions and conversations with others. It includes practice of effective approaches for when conflicts and concerns arise at work or in an academic setting, and ways to set the stage for more positive and productive interactions.
WorkWell provides information about campus services and resources for stress management and mindfulness, including acupuncture and massage services. WorkWell tote bags will contain items for individual stress and anxiety relief, including ear seeds for acupressure and guided instructions from campus practitioners for placement.
Department: WorkWell
Audience: Faculty and staff
Length of Training: 20-30 minutes
Provides an overview of ASD, tips for working with students on the spectrum and ways ASD may impact students in the classroom.
- Department: Disability Services
- Audience: Staff, faculty
- Length of presentation: 50 minutes
Join this workshop to learn what mental health looks like at CU, how to recognize signs of distress, respond effectively and connect students with campus resources.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 1 hour
After a traumatic experience, usually friends, mentors, family and sometimes faculty/advisors are the first to be told about these experiences. How one responds matters as it can impact healing, as well as whether the survivors will seek additional support. This session will focus on skills that address how to respond to someone after they disclose a traumatic or life-disrupting event. This session can also include information for responsible employees on complying with their 鶹Ѱsharing requirements in a trauma informed way.
- Department:Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Training: 45-60 minutes
If you have a 鶹ѰIdentiKey, you may also at your convenience through Percipio (approximately 30-40 minutes).
This is an add on to the Supporting Survivors session, it is not a standalone session - information for responsible employees on complying with their sharing requirements in a trauma informed way.
- Department:Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Training: See Supporting Survivors
Trauma is in your classroom, even if you do not know it. The majority of college students report exposure to at least one potentially traumatic event over the course of their lifetime, with rates ranging from 52 to 85 percent (Shebuski, Bowie & Ashby, 2020). To teach, guide and mentor the next generation of scholars, it’s important for you to know how traumatic events can impact your students. This session will help you understand what is going on inside of a victim/survivor’s brain and body and help explain their behaviors after a traumatic event. We will also discuss important considerations for classroom management and student support, including “trigger warnings” and how to provide appropriate academic support.
- Department:Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)
- Audience: Faculty and instructors
- Length of Training: 1 hour
Get connected with 鶹ѰBoulder's employee wellness platform! Experience a demo of Wellable's on-demand content and how to get your account set up so you can take advantage of all the features provided through the app. Smartwatch bands for Apple Watch and FitBit are available while supplies last.!
- Department: WorkWell
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 20-30 minutes
This session is an introduction into how repeated discriminatory experiences can produce a traumatic response. Participants will learn how oppression can impact people’s stress responses and neurobiological development, and how to work effectively with people who have experienced oppressive trauma. Additionally, this presentation also addresses the personal and community impacts of working within social justice, and how to care for oneself and one's community.
- Department: Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)
- Audience: Faculty and staff (a good session after having attended Supporting Survivors)
- Length of Training: 1 hour
TBD
Support groups and workshops can vary from semester to semester.Find up-to-date information.
- Department: Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Length of Activity: Varies
- Department: WorkWell
- Audience: Faculty and staff