Division of Student Affairs

Emotional Resilience Workshops

Monday, January 27, 2025

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Please contact CAPS 713-743-5454 (or your CAPS clinician) to register for this workshop.

1/27/2025  Accept, Cope, Endure: Conquering Distress
2/3/2025   Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster
2/10/2025 Communicate with Confidence
2/17/2025  Accept, Cope, Endure: Conquering Distress
2/24/2025 Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster
3/3/2025   Communicate with Confidence
3/10/2025 SPRING BREAK
3/17/2025 Accept, Cope, Endure: Conquering Distress
3/24/2025 Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster
3/31/2025 Communicate with Confidence
4/7/2025   Accept, Cope, Endure: Conquering Distress
4/14/2025 Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster
4/21/2025 Communicate with Confidence
4/28/2025  Accept, Cope, Endure: Conquering Distress
5/5/2025   Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster

• Emotional Resilience:
  • Conquering Distress: Accept, Cope & Endure:

    This session introduces the terms distress and tolerance and focuses on building skills for being able to tolerate and accept distress.
  • Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster:
    This session will focus on identifying and labeling your emotions, creating awareness about choices/options you have in response to overwhelming emotions and teach you specific skills to assist with emotion regulation.
  • Communicate with Confidence:

    This session will help you communicate more effectively through understanding your communication and boundary styles as well as values around relationships.

FAQs

What is the structure of the Essential Skills Workshops?
Workshops are much like attending a class. Students meet for 1 hour each week. Each week a CAPS clinician will provide attendees with new information and guide students to practice new techniques they can implement in their lives.
Each week will cover a new topic on a rotation. The workshops are designed to be started at any point, so you do not have to wait.

Can I just show up to an Essential Skills Workshop?
No, essential skills workshops are only for CAPS clients, and you will need to be referred to a workshop by a CAPS clinician. If you would like to learn skills to better manage your emotions, you can attend an access visit appointment and let your counselor know. They will then help you determine if an essential skills workshop is a good fit for you.

Is Essential Skills Workshop a good fit?
A workshop may be a good fit for you if:
• You are having a hard time dealing with your anxiety or other emotions.
• You are the type of person who doesn’t just want to talk about your issues
but wants to know what you can do about your situation and how to take
action.
• You are motivated to learn new skills and ready to implement changes on
your own.

Here is what students say:
“It has assisted on putting my life back on track.”
“It helped me to be more aware of the situation around me and provided me with several coping/ improvement methods.”
“It was very insightful.”
“Topics and methods are very helpful.”