Wellbeing groups and workshops

Want to learn how to take good care of yourself at university? In this workshop, we'll discuss how to build a routine that creates and maintains positive wellbeing through sleeping well, getting active, making social connections and managing our mood. 

Feeling worried and anxious about anything and everything? This workshop will teach you more about worry and anxiety and why we feel this way, as well as teach you some coping strategies to manage these difficulties.  

Do you struggle to get started with important study tasks? Is your leisure time spoiled by a nagging sense of guilt? This workshop explores why and how we procrastinate; there will be an opportunity to identify personalised strategies to challenge procrastination in yourself and find techniques to help you to work in a more balanced and productive way.

Perfectionism can cause problematic levels of stress, hindering progress, success and wellbeing.  This workshop explores alternatives to perfectionist thinking and considers how developing a ‘good enough’ perspective can help you work in a healthier and more effective way towards your goals. 

Are you struggling to manage your negative thoughts? In this workshop we will discuss different unhelpful thinking habits, how they impact our wellbeing and look at techniques to manage these ways of thinking.  

Feeling super stressed and overwhelmed by exams? This workshop will teach you more about stress itself, as well as how to manage it; particularly during exam season!

Feeling stressed and unable to relax? Our Mindfulness and Relaxation workshop will teach you more about mindfulness and give you some relaxation exercises you can use daily to de-stress and chill out.

Date and time: Thursdays 12pm to 1.30pm, in and out of term time.

Location: Room 6, Second Floor, Leeds University Union, LS2 9JZ.

The meditation group offers you a large variety of relaxations, meditations and practices preparatory to meditation. Once you have been to a few sessions, you will have learnt which ones you can make best use of.

To attend in person, come to the room and sign the register.

The group is also live streamed over Zoom for people who cannot attend in person. Please make sure you have downloaded Zoom onto your device well before you attend.

Each week, you will receive an email with a link to the meeting page on the Student Counselling and Wellbeing Hub. This will take you straight to the online session.

For more information about the group, please email the facilitator James Taylor at j.r.e.taylor@leeds.ac.uk.

Read supporting information for the meditation group (PDF) and access the meditation guide and MP3 resources.

Date and time: Fridays 2pm to 3pm

Location: Group Room, Student Counselling and Wellbeing, 19 Clarendon Place, Leeds, LS2 9JY.

The Feel Better Faster group is for you if you want to manage your feelings and thoughts with more ease.

You will be shown a set of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness techniques which, if practiced regularly, will help you deepen your capacity to relax, concentrate and manage what goes on inside of you.

These practices help the majority of people who suffer from insomnia, anxiety, stress, and depression to reduce their symptoms quite quickly.

You will achieve the best results if you work regularly on the techniques in between as well as during the sessions. We will provide free MP3 files to support your practice.

To attend in person, come to the room and sign the register.

The group is also live streamed over Zoom for people who cannot attend in person. Please make sure you have downloaded Zoom onto your device well before you attend.

Each week, you will receive an email with a link to the meeting page on the Student Counselling and Wellbeing Hub. This will take you straight to the online session.

For more information about the group, please email the facilitator James Taylor at j.r.e.taylor@leeds.ac.uk.

Read supporting information for the Feel Better Faster group (PDF).