Upcoming Events

Feeling drained, distracted, or low on motivation? This one-hour lunch and learn offers practical strategies to help you understand, assess, and manage your energy for greater well-being. The following session will incorporate Martin Seligman's PERMA model, a research-backed framework from positive psychology. The PERMA model focuses on five key areas that contribute to well-being: Positive Emotion – Cultivating moments of joy and satisfaction Engagement – Being fully absorbed in activities that energize...

Designed by Living Works, SafeTALK is a 3.5 hours alertness training and certification that prepares anyone, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. This training includes understanding of the importance of suicide alertness, learning to identify ways people invite help, and how to connect those who need help with resources when they are at risk. This training is recommended for individuals who are not mental health experts but who might have on-going relationships with people who have mental...

Join Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health and Student Wellness Services for a supportive, judgment-free workshop focused on reducing substance-use stigma and building confidence in responding to opioid poisonings. Many people—including students, colleagues, friends, family members, and even youth—may be at risk without others realizing it. Being prepared with knowledge and a naloxone kit helps keep our entire community safer. Naloxone is a safe, easy-to-use medication that temporarily reverses the effects of an opioid poisoning. You do not need to be a health...

Most of us know that we should lead an active life, get a sufficient amount of sleep, eat nutritious food and strive for harmony between our work and personal lives. And many of us have goals we would like to reach, whether that goal is to run a marathon, reduce our screen time or save for retirement. But it’s one thing to know what we should do or what we want to do, and another thing altogether to know how to achieve it. Healthy habits are key to turning our good intentions into effective action. This session will equip participants with strategies for building and...

This 3-session skills program meets online for an hour on 3 consecutive Monday evenings beginning Monday, January 26, 2026 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. If you often procrastinate when you’re anxious (or when the task increases anxiety), and if in turn the procrastination makes you feel more pressured and anxious, you may be caught in the anxiety-procrastination cycle.  Although many people think that procrastination is a time management issue, most often it is an emotional response.  We'll tackle the "complicated failure of self-regulation" in this cycle by learning tips,...

Learn powerful, drug free strategies that deeply restore mind/body, calm anxiety, and enhance performance… This skills training program coaches you in a variety of research-based mind/body techniques for unwinding and generating ‘non-sleep deep rest’ (20 minutes), along with effective, brief self-regulation techniques (6 to 30 seconds) for coping well through the midst of challenging situations. Practical techniques for thriving under pressure are practiced in and out of each session to develop lifetime skills in decreasing stress and enhancing energy, immune function,...

Join AGG’s Curator of Contemporary Art, Erin Szikora, for a tour of AGG's winter exhibitions, highlighting core artistic practices—painting and printmaking—with strong ties to our community and region. On the first floor, In Conversation: Ron Shuebrook & Frances Thomas explores the history of abstraction in painting and how both the Guelph-based Shuebrook and Barrie-based Thomas bring highly personal approaches to this long-standing artistic language. Upstairs, Prism International Printmaking brings together 37 artists from 17 countries, working across a wide range of...

Do you sometimes worry you wouldn’t know what to say or do if a colleague, student, friend, or family member were in mental distress or crisis? Developed by the Mental Health Commission Canada, the two-day Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Certification course is designed to give you the knowledge, skills, and confidence to respond supportively.  MHFA has been updated to follow a similar certification model as physical first aid, making it the first of its kind: a practical, recognized program to equip participants to respond to...

A 5-session program begins Wednesday, February 4, 2026 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM Learn proven, drug-free strategies to fall asleep (or back to sleep) more easily, and get more energy from sleep. This skills program provides information and instruction in the cognitive / behavioural techniques most effective for decreasing insomnia and promoting more restful sleep. Topics include the sleep behaviours most highly recommended by sleep researchers/li> tackling mid night awakenings getting more energy from sleep techniques to...

The most common and severe symptom reported by peri-menopausal women is poor sleep! This evening workshop provides tips and drug-free strategies for decreasing insomnia, hot flashes, and other sleep disturbances experienced by peri-menopausal women. Topics include tackling the frustration of awakening in the night; techniques to fall asleep and back to sleep more easily 5 questions from Minarik's report that mid-life women need to ask about their sleep how to minimize the most common non-hormonal factors that increase hot flashes...