Wellbeing groups and workshops
If you’re feeling stressed, would like to improve your relaxation skills or are interested in developing a meditation practice, we run wellbeing groups and workshops that may help.
Meditation and deep relaxation groups
Meditation group
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.
Feel Better Faster group
Date and time: Fridays 2pm to 3pm
Location: Group Room, Student Counselling and Wellbeing, 19 Clarendon Place, Leeds, LS2 9J.
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.
This 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).
Wellbeing webinars
Wellbeing webinars take place on Zoom on Wednesdays during term time (12pm to 1pm). The sessions have been designed for you to share your ideas anonymously via the keyboard, if you wish.
When you join the webinar, you can choose to enter only your initials or simply type in ‘Anon’ and this will be the only information visible to other participants.
The sign-up window for wellbeing webinars opens a week in advance of each session and closes the day before. You can book a place through the Student Counselling and Wellbeing Hub.
You will be sent a link in advance of the session, so please monitor your student email account including spam/junk folders. If you are struggling to access the session on the day, please email the Student Counselling and Wellbeing team at scw@leeds.ac.uk and we will be able to help.
The webinars will not be recorded, and you do not connect with their own video or audio during the sessions.
The following webinars are available in term 2 of 2024/25.
ABC of Managing Anxiety
Date and time: 26 February 2025, 12pm to 1pm
Location: Zoom
Anxiety is the body’s way of responding to being in danger. It works so well that it often kicks in when it’s not needed – when the danger is in our mind rather than in reality. This webinar aims to help you take back control by understanding the nature of anxiety and developing strategies to manage it.
Resources
Perfect or Good Enough?
Date and time: 5 March 2025, 12pm to 1pm
Location: Zoom
Perfectionism can cause problematic levels of stress, hindering progress, success and wellbeing. This webinar 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.
Resources
Tackling Procrastination
Dates and times:
- 12 February 2025, 12pm to 1pm
- 12 March 2025, 12pm to 1pm
Location: Zoom
Do you struggle to get started with important study tasks? Is your leisure time spoiled by a nagging sense of guilt? This webinar explores why and how we procrastinate, including the use of social media.
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.
Resources
Managing Anxiety with Compassion
Date and time: 19 March 2025, 12pm to 1pm
Location: Zoom
In this webinar we identify three different emotion regulation systems in the brain: the threat system, the drive system, and the soothing system.If we constantly feel anxious it may be that our three systems are out of balance, which can make it difficult to feel safe and relaxed.
During this session we will explore compassionate ways to further develop our soothing system, promoting a greater sense of calmness and safety.