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Adult Education Sessions
These FREE addiction and mental health education sessions focus on the 3 R’s:
reduce stigma, receive information, and reflect on strategies.
Each session is intended to provide participants with introductory information regarding addiction and mental health challenges that can affect us all, evidence-based research, possible treatment options, supportive strategies, and information/resources for further support. When topics are presented as a series, participants can attend one or all sessions.
Wellness Exchange Series
Wellness Exchange is a series of skill-building workshops that are modelled after the evidence-informed disaster recovery intervention found in Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR), applying the same action-oriented approach to non-disaster situations such as managing life’s daily stressors. The goal of Wellness Exchange Workshops is to help increase our ability to cope with change, build resilience, and improve our overall well-being.
Skills are taught in a series of 5 different workshops, each workshop focusing on a new skill.
Participants are welcome to join one or more sessions in the series.
Session 3: Managing Reactions
In this session, we will look at how managing our reactions can help us protect our well-being, maintain our healthy connections, make effective decisions, and respond to stressors in healthy ways.
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
For adults supporting their own wellness.
Session 4: Helpful Thinking
In this session, we will practice ways to improve our helpful thinking skills to increase our confidence in coping with stressors, improve our mood, and reduce the intensity of our reactions.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
For adults supporting their own wellness.
Session 5: Healthy Connections
In this session, we will look at ways we can build and maintain our healthy connections to increase our confidence, provide us with a sense of belonging, reduce isolation, and build our coping skills and increase our resiliency.
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
For adults supporting their own wellness.
Wellness Exchange was developed by the Mental Health Promotion & Illness Prevention Program and the Urgent Mental Health Outreach Team. It has been adapted from the Skills for Psychological Recovery: Field Operations guide with permission from the National Centre for PTSD. ©2021, Alberta Health Services.
Wellness Exchange workshops are not group therapy, nor are they a substitute for the advice of a qualified health professional. The material is intended for general information only and is provided on an “as is”, “where is” basis. Although reasonable efforts were made to confirm that accuracy of the information, Alberta Health Services does not make any representation or warranty, express implied or statutory, as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness, applicability, or fitness for a particular purpose of such information. Alberta Health Services expressly disclaims all liability for the use of these materials, and for any claims, actions, demands or suits arising from such use.
Understanding Anxiety Series
Participants are welcome to join one or more sessions in this series
Part 1: An Introduction
This session will distinguish between normal worries and anxiety that is no longer helpful or productive and will help participants to identify signs that they or their child/youth may be experiencing anxiety.
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
For adults supporting their own wellness or the wellness of children and youth.
Part 2: Calming Our Bodies
In this session, we will review how the body reacts to stress triggers, ways we can start to notice the body’s stress responses, and strategies for regulating ourselves, children, and youth.
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
For adults supporting their own wellness or the wellness of children and youth.
Part 3: Settling Our Minds
In this session, we will look at how anxiety can lead to negative thoughts and thinking traps that can hold us back. Strategies for encouraging more realistic thinking will be discussed.
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
For adults supporting their own wellness or the wellness of children and youth.
Part 4: Overcoming Avoidance
In this session, we will discuss how avoidance of stressors can increase our stress response over time. We will discuss ways to manage stressful situations in steps and effective coping skills.
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
For adults supporting their own wellness or the wellness of children and youth.
Silver Linings
Supporting Wellness in the Later Years
As we age, we may face many stressors and challenges - we may not be as strong as we used to be, we may experience medical illnesses and loss associated with roles and loved ones. We may become lonelier, or it may be harder to cope with life transitions. This series will provide a basic overview of mental health challenges that older adults may face and some coping strategies and supports that can be used to overcome the stressors contributing to these challenges.
Part 1: In this session, we will look closer at the common mental health challenges older adults face and some of the causes contributing to these challenges.
Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
For adults supporting their own wellness or the wellness of a loved one.
Part 2: In the session, we explore helpful strategies and supports that promote mental health wellbeing in older adults.
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
For adults supporting their own wellness or the wellness of a loved one.
Alberta Health Services is proud to offer FREE online programming for parents and caregivers who support children and youth, as well as sessions for adults looking to support their own wellness. Sessions are live and interactive. Our aim is to increase awareness and reduce the stigma around addiction and mental health challenges, provide participants with evidence-based information, and offer strategies that promote health and resilience. Click to learn more.
