Week Seven: Stress Management

Class Objectives:

After successful completion of Week Seven of FY101, students will fulfill the learning outcome of Health, Wellness, and Safety through:

• Identifying tools and strategies to manage stress in college
• Identifying campus resources to utilize in times of crisis 

Week Seven Outline:

• Ice Breaker
  • View all of our ice breakers or do Highs and Lows of their experience with stress management so far.
• Share resources:
  • • BU Wellbeing Resources 
    • Headspace: Students get a free account! Try some relaxation practice through guided meditation
    • FitRec offerings and their online videos and guides
    • BU Student Health Services Guide for responding to anxiety, depression and other common struggles among college students
    • Sexual Misconduct Resources (a guide for students and staff)
    • BU Student Government Sexual Assault Prevention Resource Guide
    • and other resources that you and your peer mentor might deem useful for the students in your class
• Activity around stress management. Choose from below or make up your own!
• Peer Mentor shows students how to make appointments with SHS (including Behavioral Medicine) and briefly explains why someone might reach out to SARP vs Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) vs BUPD, etc

Our activity + ice breaker suggestions for stress management:

• • Facilitator Guide with mindfulness activities from BU’s Outreach and Prevention Office through Student Health Services. Share some with your class!
    
  • Coloring pages with conversation about the science behind how it is calming
  • Make up scenarios describing students who are stressed on slips of paper and split your class into groups of 3-4 students. Have each group come up with advice & referrals to different campus resources, then share out to the whole class. 
  • Self-Care Self-Assessment, share their scores on the board, on Padlet, or out loud and reflect on where they can improve
    
  • Prescription for less stress, have students write their own self-care prescriptions!
  • Wellness Goals Handout, write goals on their own or with a partner/small group and share
  • BU Wellbeing workshop: Schedule a workshop hosted by the BU Wellbeing. Some options include: “Life Management: Redefining Work Life Balance”and “Busting Imposter Syndrome”) Requests must be made a month in advance.
  • Request Sleep Kits, Stress Kits or even a therapy dog or meditation workshop through BU’s Office of Outreach and Prevention here