WELL-BEING

The in-school counsellor Bronwyn has recently started a Tuesday morning session at 10am in the auditorium using singing bowls for bodily healing. This is a great opportunity for the students to engage in a relaxed, grounding process to help bring them into a regulated mental state for learning. The bowls are used to deepen meditation and promote relaxation. The bowls are played with a wooden striker, each bowl relates to a different part of your body, which promotes healing energy. The vibrations heard are beautiful sounds which interact with our body’s energy fields. Each bowl interaction to a specific chakra (energy point) in your body. There are 7 chakras - base, sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye and highest being the crown. Once the relaxation activity is complete, students remain on their cushions on the auditorium stage and engage in a personal development group activity. Weekly topics have included teamwork skills, forming and maintaining friendships and emotional self-regulation tools.

Suicide Prevention

The suicide prevention approach program with Melbourne University and Orygen Youth Mental Health started on Thursday 16th of March. 

This is a 3-model approach beginning with a 40-minute survey commencing this week. This program will allow us to identify additional students at risk of suicide or self-harm allowing the well-being team to implement more strategies and supports. This is a struggle which has been identified in our cohort as many students are currently struggling with their mental health and do not have the appropriate services and support.

                                   Harm Minimisation

To help educate and support our students, Plenty River College organized a guest speaker from YSAS (Youth support + Advocacy Service) to present information about drugs and harm minimisation. Over the years, drug use has been steadily increasing in our youth population. It is important that we educate students on the risks and 

dangers of drug use, provide knowledge on how individuals can 

minimize harm, recognise signs of overdose and inform students about what to do in response to an emergency situation. Our goal for having this guest speaker was to teach our students how to make well informed decisions, whilst doing their best to keep themselves and their peers safe.