Workshops & Presentations
Health Promotion provides a variety of presentations and programs to help support students’ overall well-being. Topics include self-care, connecting with others, stress and anxiety, recovery and more.
The following presentations are available for faculty, staff and student organizations to request. Presentations can also be tailored to specific needs.
Alcohol and Other Drugs
This workshop provides students with a safe, judgement-free space where they can explore their relationship with substance use. Students of all levels of use or non-use are welcome.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 50 minutes
Learn how to recognize and respond to hazing behaviors and get familiar with CU Boulder's rules and resources for support.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
Learn how to recognize and respond to an alcohol or other drug-related emergency.
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Time: 1 hour (this presentation can be made shorter if needed)
Knowing how to party smart can help keep you and your friends safe. Explore what party culture means at CU while learning skills to have a better time and look out for one another.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
Party culture affects students’ experiences, their health and their academic success. Learn how to recognize signs of substance use, develop effective communication skills and conversation starters for talking to a student about alcohol or other drugs, and what resources are available on campus.
- Audience: Staff, faculty
- Time: 60–90 minutes
Get a clear overview of vaping: discover its history, how common it is at CU and the effects it can have, and learn simple tips for reducing harm or quitting altogether. You’ll also find out what resources are available to help.
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Time: 1 hour
General Health
Find out how sleep affects your health and academic performance, and pick up simple tips for getting better rest.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
Discover the benefits of play and leave with simple, personalized ways to bring more playfulness into your life for better well-being.
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Time: 1 hour
Leadership and Life Skills
This presentation is for students who want to enhance their helping skills. Participants will learn how to facilitate an inspiring and nonjudgmental conversation with peers. This training also covers how to respond to distress and effectively share support resources when needed. This is an excellent opportunity for student leaders, peer mentors and others whose role includes supporting fellow students.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1-1.5 hours (1.5 hours includes time for role-plays)
What does loneliness look like in college? Discover ways to build real connections and see how connecting with others can boost your health and make your CU experience better.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
Learn how to recognize and respond to hazing behaviors and get familiar with CU Boulder's rules and resources for support.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
In this presentation, you’ll learn about the steps people take when making changes in their lives and how you can support them at each step. You will also practice simple, useful skills to help others set and reach their goals.
This training is also offered multiple times throughout the year for employees as part of the Supporting Student Resiliency series. Please visit our trainings page to view upcoming training dates or register.
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Time: 1-1.5 hours (1.5 hours includes time for role plays)
This training is geared toward students who are navigating significant transitions, such as starting college. Through engaging, reflective and interactive activities, students explore their strengths, values and goals, and consider how to apply them effectively during periods of change. Participants will also learn practical strategies to support well-being throughout the transition process.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
Mental Health and Self-Care
Consider what self-care means to you and how it can help you bounce back from challenges. Make a simple plan with easy-to-follow steps for taking care of yourself, including ways to remove obstacles so that you make self-care part of your routine.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is designed to help individuals assist someone experiencing mental health or substance use concerns or crises. In this nationally recognized training, participants will learn about risk factors and warning signs, engage in experiential activities, discuss professional and self-help resources, and practice a five-step strategy to provide support. Mental Health First Aid for high education provides tailored information for college and university communities. Participants earn an MHFA certification at the end of the course.
This training is also offered multiple times throughout the year for the campus community. Please visit our trainings page to view upcoming training dates or register.
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Time: 8.5 hours (full day)
Learn the difference between stress and anxiety in easy-to-understand terms and discover ways to manage both. You'll also learn about helpful campus resources that can support your well-being.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
This three-hour, in-person training is designed for faculty and staff who want to better support people experiencing distress. Participants will learn how to identify signs of distress, respond appropriately and connect others with helpful resources. The training includes group discussions and opportunities to practice these skills. This is a good option for teams that would like more than a one-hour training but do not have capacity for the full-day Mental Health First Aid course.
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Time: 3 hours
Discover simple ways to care for yourself as a student leader. Learn how to encourage self-care in your organization and spot, handle and prevent unhealthy stress from spreading to others.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
Attend this workshop to understand how to support student well-being at CU, including how to identify signs of distress, respond effectively and connect students with campus resources.
This training is also offered multiple times throughout the year for employees as part of the Supporting Student Resiliency series. Please visit our trainings page to view upcoming training dates or register.
- Audience: Faculty and staff
- Time: 1 hour
Recovery
Building social connections is a key part of the recovery journey, whether it’s from substance use, unwanted behaviors or other challenges. In this workshop, you’ll learn what recovery looks like, core principles for supporting others, practical ways to be a helpful ally and where to find community resources.
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Time: 1.5 hours
Get a firsthand look at what recovery is like from people in recovery. Students in recovery share their personal stories, helping others better understand the recovery process and its effects.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour
Gain a better understanding of how and why connecting to others removes barriers to recovery.
- Audience: Staff, faculty
- Time: 75 minutes
Sexual Health and Body Image
This workshop teaches you how to communicate in healthy ways and gives you straightforward tips for safer sex and having a positive attitude about sex.
- Audience: Students
- Time: 1 hour