Rochester Secondary College Newsletter

Year 12 Wellbeing Webinar Series 

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

YEAR 12 Wellbeing Webinar Series 

August - October 2020

 

Presenter: Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

 

A suite of unique, informative and engaging 30 minute webinars to support all VCE/VCAL students navigate your way through 2020 and beyond. You will walk away with practical and evidence-based approaches to boast mental wellness and build resilience, motivation and connectedness.

 

Our colleagues at North East have shared a number of resources to support students, please see link below;

Mental Wellness

Proactive and practical approaches to maintaining and improving your mental wellbeing

 

  • The wellbeing spectrum
  • Bucket fillers and emptiers
  • Mood foods, exercise, daily rhythms, relationships

 

Friday 21st August

12:30-13:00

WebEx: Hyperlink

Session Password: NEVR

Register - name and email required

Call for Calmness

Understanding and practicing ways to achieve calmness in your life as an antidote to VCE and VCAL stressors 

 

  • Doses of anxiety- the goldilocks principle 
  • Peak performance 
  • Benefits of practiced relaxation and mindfulness

 

Friday 28th August

12:30-13:00

WebEx Event: Hyperlink 

Session Password: NEVR

Register - name and email required

Thoughtful Solutions

Exploring common Thinking Traps that can lead to negative patterns of thinking and learning practical strategies to manage them

 

  • Informed not obsessed - alert not alarmed
  • Locus of control 
  • Circuit breakers and distractions
  • Realism/optimism
  • Dealing with uncertainty, fear, disappointment

 

Friday 4th September

13:00-13:30

WebEx: Hyperlink

Session Password: NEVR

Register - name and email required

Digging Deep

Identifying your personal motivators to maintain the effort required to achieve your short- and long-term goals 

 

  • The nature of grit and resilience- effort matters
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic motivators- what works for you? 
  • Recreating routines 
  • Motivational tools - e.g. mantras, quotes hero's
  • Adjusting your narrative - short and long game plans

 

Friday 11th September

13:00-13:30

WebEx: Hyperlink

Session Password: NEVR

Register - name and email required

Virtual Connectedness

Finding creative, innovative and unique solutions to bring us together. 

 

  • Reimagining VCE and VCAL
  • Online study-social groups 
  • Reaching out to others
  • Gratitude, compassion and acts of kindness

 

Friday 18th September

13:00-13:30

WebEx: Hyperlink

Session Password: NEVR

Register - name and email required

On the Horizon

Looking through both a realistic and optimistic lens to a positive future with new knowledge, thinking and skills

 

  • The skilled, connected and informed generation
  • Reasons for hope and optimism   
  • From adversity comes opportunity

 

Friday 9th October

13:00-13:30

WebEx: Hyperlink

Session Password: NEVR

Register - name and email required

 

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