Saturday 10 October

Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble: Theatre Games Community and Wellbeing Workshop 

Drawing on games and techniques from the Theatre of the Oppressed canon, this workshop will encourage participants to get into their bodies, to be spontaneous, playful and creative, to interact with others and have lots of fun!

Monday 12 October

Engineering Undergraduate Society ​ - Take time for mental health morning 

To celebrate the QLD Mental Health Week engineering students are invited to take time for their mental health. There will be yoga and meditation activities, Safe Space for chats with Mental Health Champions and some ideas for self-care to take with you. Undergraduate, postgraduate course work and HDR students are welcome to attend.

Natural Amphitheatre,
UQ St Lucia campus

UQ Respect Hub

Drop by the UQ Respect Hub and get involved with one of the many activities on offer! We are giving away FREE UQ Respect gift bags to everyone who completes the new online module, UQ Respect: Sexual Consent Ethical Bystanding, and Compassionate Response! We'll also have our interactive Respect Is...campaign set up all week long, so make sure you stop by and share with the UQ community what respect means to you!  There'll also be plenty of opportunities to engage with the UQ Respect coordinator as well as our student volunteers, where you can hear all about the support services UQ offers and how you can play a role in ensuring our campuses are safe and respectful spaces for all of our community. We hope to see you there!

Yoga and Meditation Session - Engineering Undergraduate Society ​

Start your day the right way and  join the EUS for a free yoga and meditation session!

All participants will receive a free coffee voucher and go into the draw to win a $100 'Riverlife' voucher! Don't forget to bring a mat or a towel with you and join us at the Natural Amphitheatre for a relaxing morning!

Nutritional Cooking Class

Learn how to prepare quick, easy and nutritional meals on a budget, from the comfort of your own home! Join Dr Olivia Wright from the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences live on the UQ Life Facebook page to step up your cooking game!
Download the recipes and cook along!
Chicken Pea and Broccoli Pasta
Chickpea Curry

'Let's Tacobout it' Lived Experience Panel 

Come and join us for a conversation with UQ’s Sean Tran. Sean is a 6^th year law / commerce student at UQ. He is also President of the UQ Law Society and is a lived-experience speaker at Batyr. Through his role at Batyr, Sean attends workshops at various high schools and universities in QLD to speak about his mental health journey. Sean will be sharing his story about navigating University while tackling challenges with his mental health. So come along, and let’s tacobout it!!

UQ Wellness Online Webinar: Surviving to Thriving

This combined stress/resilience webinar will take a preventative approach to dealing with stress, explore what it means to be resilient, and provide effective tools to build long term personal resilience. Participants will be challenged to make an action plan for the future, to not only build their resilience but also maintain good mental health and wellbeing generally. Note: Please remember to bring a pen and paper for this session

Online Webinar: Carer's at Work 

The UQ Human Resources are celebrating National Carers’ Week with a “Carers at Work” panel discussion. Join our panellists Associate Director Dr Dee Gibbon (Workplace Diversity and Inclusion), Richard Bannister (Workplace Relations) and Kiri Stejko (Chief Services Officer, Parents and Carers at Work) moderated by Dr Kate Smith (UQ Workplace Psychologist) as they explore the experiences of carers juggling work, life and caring responsibilities along with strategies and supports available for UQ employees including flexible work options.

Mental Health Support in Your Language

Join Pamela Doherty UQ’s Health Promotion Coordinator and Andrés Otero Forero, Clinical Educator from the Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre for an online 'Mental Health Support in Your Language' session. The session will provide students with an understanding of mental health, tips on supporting our mental health and where to get specialised support in your language.

Tuesday 13 October

Session 1
10 - 11am

Session 2
12.30 - 1.30pm

Session 3
3.30 - 4.30pm

Online Session 4
5-6pm

Carers Week Discussion Circle 

National Carers Week recognises and celebrates the outstanding contribution that unpaid carers make to our nation, and presents an opportunity to educate and raise awareness among all Australians about the diversity of carers and their caring roles.

Hosted by UQ Diversity, Disability and Inclusion and Counselling representatives, the UQ Carers Week discussion circles are an opportunity for our Carer’s community to get together and have a conversation, learn about what supports are available, share their experiences and talk about some ideas to help strengthen UQ with Carer support.

FREE food will be provided at each of the on-campus sessions.

Session 1,2,3
Behind UQ Lakes Bus Stop Platform C, UQ St Lucia

Session 4
ONLINE via Zoom
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UQ Respect Hub

Drop by the UQ Respect Hub from 10am-2pm from Monday-Thursday and get involved! We hope to see you there!

Meet the Artist

Meet the artist behind the Respect Is... campaign...Samuel Leighton-Dore. Come along for an informal chat with Samuel about the new campaign, the inspiration behind Respect Is..., Mental Health, art and more!

UQ Wellness Online Webinar: Healthy Lifestyle Habits

‘Healthy Lifestyle Habits” provides essential information about how our bodies and minds work best in the context of busy working lives. It provides evidence-based guidance on managing our cravings for unhealthy foods and activities, increasing exercise when we lack motivation, staying positive, and achieving a healthy balance between work and play.

Wednesday 14 October

Post Graduate Convo Corner & Mental Health Panel Discussion

Join us from 10am for a discussion about HDR student mental health over coffee featuring Associate Professor Pierre Benckendorff (Deputy Dean, UQ Graduate School), Dr Susannah Tye (Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Brain Institute), and UQ HDR students Lauren Zappala and Gabriela Fernando. There will also be an opportunity for games, more coffee and fun conversations from 11am-12pm.

Wednesday's on the Knoll

• Coffee Corner
• Chat with a UQ Counsellor, Mental Health Champion

Health and Wellbeing Walk Gatton

Get your steps up, enjoy the beautiful Gatton campus, and meet other students while learning about the services to support your mental health at UQ. The walk will conclude with a 10 minute mindfulness session and  light refreshments. 

Gatton Chill Sessions

• Coffee Corner
• Chat with a UQ Counsellor, Mental Health Champion
• Post Graduate Convo Corner
• Terrarium Making Workshop (due to COVID-19 limited spots available)
• Let's Tacobout It Gatton

UQ Respect Hub

Drop by the UQ Respect Hub from 10am-2pm from Monday-Thursday and get involved! We hope to see you there!

Terrarium Making Workshop

Research has found that having houseplants can benefit your mental health and wellbeing! Come along to our free workshop on how to make a terrarium to add some greenery to your surroundings! You will even get to take your little green friend home with you!

Online Webinar: Psychosocial Safety Climate and Australian Universities

Work stress is increasing across the world with impacts on health, society and productivity. Join Professor Maureen Dollard and Dr Amy Zadow (Centre for Workplace Excellence - University of South Australia) to hear about the causes of work stress, the impact of COVID-19 on workplace mental health, mental health within universities and strategies to prevent and improve levels of work stress for teams and staff.

Herston Hangouts

• Coffee Corner
• Chat with a UQ Counsellor, Mental Health Champion
• Terrarium Making Workshop (due to COVID-19 limited spots available)

Respect and Consent Discussion Circle

This interactive session explores in depth the concept of consent - from a legal and practical perspective - autonomy within romantic relationships, and verbal/ non-verbal consent cues. The session will also look at positive relationships and practical tips for when relationships ‘go bad’.

FREE lunch included for all attendees.

Mindfulness Meditation Practice

Meditation for all levels! Beginners welcome!
Mindfulness practices help you build up the capacity to maintain a steadiness in present-moment awareness. The benefits of Mindfulness come from the direct experience of practice, beginners often fall asleep, feel uncomfortable, struggle with difficult thoughts or emotions, and become bored or distracted. This session aims to support you in overcoming these common obstacles when beginning your mindfulness journey. 15 min will be offered at the end of the session for reflection on insights, experiences, or questions with an experienced meditator.

Queensland Brain Institute
Live Webinar: Understanding the brain to treat depression

It is estimated that more than 30% of people do not respond to medicines to treat depression. This can leave people with limited treatment options and have a huge impact on their quality of life and their support networks. Join Queensland Brain Institute researchers Dr Susannah Tye, Dr Dhanisha Jhaveri and psychiatrist, and QBI researcher, Dr Philip Mosley as they discuss what is happening in the brains of people with depression, why medications don’t work for some people and alternative treatments for people with depression that don’t respond to medication.   

Thursday 15 October

Health and Wellbeing Walk St Lucia

Get your steps up, enjoy the beautiful St Lucia campus, and meet other students while learning about the services to support your mental health at UQ. The walk will conclude with a FREE light morning tea at the community garden. 

UQ Respect Hub 

Drop by the UQ Respect Hub from 10am-2pm from Monday-Thursday and get involved! We hope to see you there!

The Trauma Banquet: A reading with Professor Kenneth Pakenham

Come and join us for an insightful and thought provoking discussion about Professor Pakenham’s inspirational memoir that reveals the truth about building resilience and overcoming adversity.  Professor Pakenham, a UQ Psychology Professor, will share excerpts from his recently published memoir, which uses his personal story to reveal a surprising truth behind resilience: Embracing pain is empowering.

UQ Mindfulness: Learn to stop overthinking 

Over-thinking is a burden many people struggle with. Some have called it the monkey mind - always active and jumping in our heads, keeping us up at night. Learn ways to quieten your inner mind with helpful mindfulness strategies and skills.

Vet Student Mental Health & Wellbeing:
A discussion with Dr Nadine Hamilton

Join Dr Nadine Hamilton for a discussion on mental health and wellbeing. 

Friday 16 October

10am
Panel

10.30am Pancakes

Engineering Undergraduate Society - Learning from Lived Experience Panel with Beyond Blue Speaker Zerlina Lahz

Join the Engineering Undergraduate Society to hear from Beyond Blue Speaker Zerlina Lahz about their lived experience over some free pancakes!

Find out more about Beyond Blue

Panel
Hawken Engineering Building, Room N202

Pancakes
Hawken Engineering Building BBQ's 

UQ St Lucia

Official Launch of the Strategic Framework and Action Plan for Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response

Join us for the official launch of the Strategic Framework and Action Plan for Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response. This Framework sets out UQ’s commitment to providing students and staff with safe and respectful environments for all members of our community. This event will be an opportunity to learn about the Framework and explore what it means for each of us in practice. Hear from Professor Deborah Terry AO, UQ Vice-Chancellor and President and Professor Joanne Wright, UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Keynote Speaker Patty Kinnersly CEO of Our Watch. After the official launch, stay for light refreshments and round table discussions about practical ways we can all draw on the Framework to build prevention into our work and contribute to ensuring our learning, working and research environments are safe and respectful places for all members of our community.

UQ Wellness Online Webinar: Feeding your Mental Health

This webinar will help equip you with the knowledge to get the most out of your food The health of your mind is just as important as your physical health. More recent research shows that food can play a part in maintaining your mental wellbeing. ‘Feeding your mental health’ reveals the importance of a balanced diet for our health and wellbeing, with some suggestions on specific foods to focus on for mental wellbeing.

Social Run (with the UQ Social Runners Club)

Join the UQ Social Runners Club for an afternoon run for Mental Health Week.