Upcoming Events

If going to the fridge is your number one stress management strategy, it may be time to learn more about how stress drives emotional eating and ways to start addressing it. This evening workshop provides tips from the latest research on decreasing stress eating, along with practice of emotional calming strategies. Topics include: hunger, stress, emotion, or habit, and tools for differentiating them the most effective strategies, including the use of biofeedback, for decreasing craving-related eating and emotional eating breaking out of the...

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...

Worrying is a component of anxiety, and you can do something about it. Learn to curb the worry habit and how to avoid the five key pitfalls that perpetuate and escalate worrying. Topics include: the two approaches proven to decrease worrying shifting from destructive or unproductive worry to gain access to the evolutionary advantage of worrying five pitfalls that perpetuate worry and make it difficult to break out of worry spirals tips for bedtime worriers a variety of techniques and brain training exercises to curb...

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...