Building positive mental health and wellbeing through your Thrive event or initiative
Positive mental health is an important aspect of overall wellbeing. When planning your Thrive event, it may be helpful to consider the questions below as guidelines to help your group and community thrive:
How could your event/activity provide opportunities for individual and/or community actions that support positive mental health and resilience?
You can do this through:
- Advocacy
- An educational event (eg. workshop, presentation or panel)
- Fostering connections amongst your target audience/group
- Skill building opportunities (eg. develop a new skill, try something new)
- A landscape scan of what already exists on campus within your unit, department, group, club
How can your event/activity increase awareness of the connection between overall wellbeing and mental health?
- Consider whether your event makes a connection between different aspects of overall wellbeing and mental health
How can your event be inclusive of diverse perspectives and populations on campus?
- Review the Planning an Accessible Event document
- Review your event idea with a group of stakeholders
- Connect with the Thrive committee liaison
- Connect with departmental administrators or organizational leaders
How can your event/activity increase awareness of Centennial’s commitment to supporting mental health and resilience?
- Create awareness of existing campus resources
- Encourage the utilization of available tools (self-help, online, academic, professional)
- Highlight existing college policies and procedures related to mental health and wellness
Support for Special Events & Thriving Partners
The Thrive planning committee wants to help make your event a success. We can support your event or initiative by:
- Providing activity ideas and planning resources
- Working with you to build the theme of positive mental health into your event
- Promoting your event on the campus in the weeks leading up to Thrive, and sharing poster templates and communications tools for you to use to support your own event promotion
- Sending a Thrive Ambassador to your event as a representative and to provide event support
Resources Available
Logistics
Thrive Event Planner's Checklist
Planning an Accessible Event
Communications
Thrive Planning Toolkit
Thrive Presentation Slide
Contact
Thrive Committee Chair: mdeirish@centennialcollege.ca
Thrive Committee Liaison: eschwenger@centennialcollege.ca