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N O V E M B E R 1 4 -‐ 1 5
The Acadia Community Development Council Presents:
B-‐WELL 2014
Bringing Wellness, Encouraging Leadership and Learning
When & Where
Join us in Fountain Commons
on November 14th and 15th for
this amazing tw0 day
conference!
Hours:
Friday -‐ Registration opens at
noon! Opening Ceremony
starts at 1. The first day ends at
9:30 pm after the Park Bench
Players show!
Saturday – Workshops start at
9 am! The Closing Ceremony
starts at 4 pm.
Registration closes at noon
on Wednesday the 12th!
Get your tickets before then
so you don’t miss out!
Come learn how to B-‐WELL!
This conference will focus on creating a safe environment to
address some important topics on campus. Come learn how to
support friends with mental illness, how to manage stress,
participate in wellness breaks including yoga and slacklining,
and learn about how things like sport, play, and creativity
affect your wellness as a whole! The cost of registration (only
$20) includes a dinner and snack breaks throughout the
conference as well as an award-‐winning theater performance
by the Park Bench Players -‐ a theater group from Antigonish
whose members live with mental illness. Come give your voice
to these important conversations and learn some new skills!
Tickets ($20) – Where to register!
SUB
Horton Hall
Register at the Info
Desk in the SUB!
Visit Heather
Turner in her
office in room 326.
War Memorial
Gym
In the KINE/REC
building, register
with Kim Vaughan
or Peggy Weir!
B-‐WELL 2014
NOVEMBER 14 -‐ 15
Schedule
Friday, November 14
TIME
ACTIVITY
LOCATION
12 PM – 1 PM
REGISTRATION
FOUNTAIN COMMONS
1 PM – 2:15 PM
OPENING CEREMONY
FOUNTAIN COMMONS
2:15 PM – 3 PM
BREAK OUT SESSION 1
FOUNTAIN COMMONS
3 PM – 4:15 PM
WELLNESS BREAK
AROUND CAMPUS
4:15 PM – 5 PM
BREAK OUT SESSION 2
FOUNTAIN COMMONS
5 PM – 5:30 PM
BREAK
PERSONAL PREFERENCE
5:30 PM -‐ 7
DINNER
MACKEEN ROOM (SUB)
7:15 PM – 7:30 PM
PRE-‐SHOW RECEPTION
FESTIVAL THEATER (504 MAIN ST.)
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
PARK BENCH PLAYERS
FESTIVAL THEATER (504 MAIN ST.)
9:30 PM – 10 PM
POST-‐SHOW
RECEPTION
FESTIVAL THEATER (504 MAIN ST.)
Saturday, November 15
TIME
ACTIVITY
LOCATION
9 AM – 12 PM
WORKSHOPS
FOUNTAIN COMMONS
12 PM – 1:30 PM
LUNCH
PERSONAL PREFERENCE
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM
FOUNTAIN COMMONS
2:15 PM – 3 PM
STRESS MANAGEMENT
PANEL
WELLNESS BREAK
3 PM – 4 PM
CLOSING CEREMONY
FOUNTAIN COMMONS
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AROUND CAMPUS
B-‐WELL 2014
NOVEMBER 14 -‐ 15
Registration
Sign in and pick up your nametag and t-‐shirt. During this time,
you will also sign up for sessions! You will pick 2 Break Out
Sessions, 2 Wellness Breaks, and a workshop stream. The earlier
you get there, the more likely you will be able to sign up for the
session you want to attend the most!
Welcome and Opening Ceremonies
Break Out Sessions
ASU President Callie Lathem, and two of our conference
organizers, Gillian Bersgma and Linnea Swinimer, will facilitate
the opening ceremonies. This ceremony will introduce the topics
of mental health, mental illness, and campus well-‐being with
your input. A ‘silent conversation’ will take place where you can
share your thoughts and ideas on these important themes!
Break Out Sessions are student-‐led presentations about
important wellness and mental health related issues on campus.
All the options for these sessions are outlined below! Pick two
45-‐minute sessions to attend.
Dinner
Wellness breaks are incorporated into both days of the
conference. The purpose of these breaks is to provide time for
stress relief and exhibit what amazing resources we have on
campus for this purpose! Take time during the Wellness Breaks
to reflect upon what you have learned so far, and how you can
incorporate similar breaks into your day-‐to-‐day life as a means of
reducing stress! Pick two Wellness Breaks (one per day) from the
options listed below!
Join us in the Mackeen room in the SUB (up the stairs on your
left side when you walk in) for a delicious buffet and some fun
games as well as a photo booth! Be sure to specify
dietary restrictions when registering!
Wellness Breaks
Park Bench Players
The national award-‐winning theatre from Antigonish troupe
shares their powerful story of hope, courage and resilience in
living with mental illness. This is wonderful opportunity to
explore what can be done to create a positive and inclusive
community for those struggling with mental health issues, which
is all of us in one way or another! Join us before the show to learn
about valuable mental health resources around the valley. Join us
after the show for discussion with the cast and crew!
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B-‐WELL 2014
NOVEMBER 14 -‐ 15
Workshops
During registration, sign up for one of five workshop streams
outlined below. You will learn something new and important
from each of them, so don’t be concerned if you don’t get your
top pick! Workshop time will also include a coffee and nutrition
break.
Stress Management Panel
This panel will be facilitated by ASU President Callie Lathem.
During this time, the panel members will address stress
management issues and techniques to reduce stress. Take this
time to ask our panel members questions about stress and stress
management. Members of the panel include: Dr. Rene Murphy
(Director of the School of Kinesiology; also teaches “Stress
Management” course), Oonagh Proudfoot (Senior Alumni
Officer; also teaches “Physically Active Living” course), Erica
McGill (director and counselor at the Student Resource Center),
and Tim McFarland (Acadia’s Chaplain Reverend).
Closing Ceremony
This ceremony will include a summary of all that has happened
in the last two days. We will return to the ‘silent conversation’
initiated at the beginning of the conference, and see where we
stand. How will we move forward with all that we have learned?
How can we out the skills we have learned to use in improving
not only our own wellness, but also the wellness of all those
around us? Let’s make Acadia a place where wellness and mental
health are fully supported!
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B-‐WELL 2014
NOVEMBER 14 -‐ 15
Break Out Sessions
Be a better student with laughter and
play. Seriously! – Debbie Surette
This presentation will first investigate the science behind
laughter, its multiple benefits to our immunity and organs,
and overall mental and emotional state. Design and
participate in games made from everyday objects to learn
about how important creativity and play are to your well
being! Our brains are “play wired” so being deprived of play
can lead to burnouts.
The Benefits of Volunteering: S.M.I.L.E.
– Mick Leahy & Leah Bennett
This session will outline the positive effects of
volunteering as a student and how it promotes a healthy
lifestyle. We will be taking personal, and outside
perspective on the benefits of volunteers, as well as the
researched psychological benefits of volunteering. The
area of wellness the talk will be focused on, are the
personal benefits to volunteering using the SMILE
program at Acadia as a focus group.
Creativity, Meaningfulness, and
Mental Health – Hillary Gabriel
Theoretical and empirical evidence will be presented to
support the benefits of creativity on both meaningfulness
and mental health. The presenter’s own current research will
also be used, and is looking at the protective effects of
creativity on meaningfulness and psychological well-‐being.
This will primarily be a research-‐based presentation,
however, it will also leave space for questions and discussion
regarding the topic of creativity and how it interacts with
mental health. Additionally, attendees may be provided
with paper and pencils, and be encouraged to doodle
throughout the session.
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B-‐WELL 2014
NOVEMBER 14 -‐ 15
Break Out Sessions Cont.
Care-‐Full Conversations –
Christine Moreau
This session is about language choices and how they
affect those around you. It will challenge participants
to critically analyze their vocabularies and evaluate if
what they say is having a negative or positive impact
on how people perceive them, as well as the emotion
that the language evokes from others. It will also
focus on the gendering of language that is built into
our everyday conversation and how to eliminate them
to make a safer space for everyone.
Stereotyping and its Affect on
Wellness – Diana Yap & Yoko Liao
During this session, we will examine stereotypes and how
they have affected us, or others. We will attempt to evaluate
our own biases and understand how these impact our
interactions with other people. We will learn about
stereotype threat and how we can reduce it on campus!
There will be a spoken word poem on the topic by an
International student who attends Acadia.
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B-‐WELL 2014
NOVEMBER 14 -‐ 15
Wellness Breaks
Friday (3 – 4:15 pm)
Slacklining at University Hall Lawn
Yoga in Clark Commons
Jazzercise at Clark Commons
Nature Walks and Activities in the Harriet
Saturday (2:15 – 3 pm)
Create a mural in Fountain Commons
Dance at Fountain Commons
Skating at the Athletic Complex
Slacklining on University Hall Lawn
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B-‐WELL 2014
NOVEMBER 14 -‐ 15
Workshop Streams
Palcemaking
Peer Supprt Stream
Safety and
Wellbeing Stream
Bell Aliant "Let's
Talk"
Sport and Wellness
Stream
Peer Support Stream – Peer Support Line & Res Life
What is peer support, and why is it showing up at universities all over Canada? Learn about what
peer support is, and how you can use peer support skills in your own life and relationships. There
will be an interactive session with roleplaying as a chance to practice some of the skills you will
learn. To briefly explain, peer support is teaching peers to use their personal experiences to
empathize with others going through the same or similar things. This means that they are peers
in the sense that they have similar experiences, not in the sense that they are both students.
The Red & Blue Crew promotes awareness about overindulgence in alcohol by educating students
about the signs. It encourages students to take action when they see another student in need of
assistance, and provides them with the tools to do so.
Bell Aliant “Let's Talk” – Josh Budish & Shannon White
This campaign has two main goals: to encourage Canadians to talk openly about mental health in
their communities, workplaces, schools, and homes; to provide practical guidelines for starting
conversations about mental health. Come join us in learning about how to these important
conversations with other people in our lives. Help create an Acadia-‐specific campaign about
Safety and Wellbeing Stream – Meg Townsend
Meg Townsend is a former RCMP Officer and is currently the Equity Officer on Campus. This
workshop will be a variation on Meg’s ASSERT training, which provides students with sexual
assault defense training. The variations on this workshop will focus on how a sense of security and
safety can contribute to wellness and mental health.
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B-‐WELL 2014
NOVEMBER 14 -‐ 15
Workshop Streams Cont.
Sport and Wellness Stream – Dr. Darren Kruisselbrink &
Sustain Your Body
Although important, the highest form of psychological/mental wellness in sport doesn’t come
from winning, but from performing to one’s potential. How can athlete’s regularly experience
mental wellness in sport? Dr. Kruisselbrink will introduce delegates to an anatomy of
performance model and, more specifically, an anatomy of mental performance model to identify
the key drivers of performance. Discussion will then turn to self-‐talk and the role of this key
driver in shaping how athletes mentally and emotionally frame and ultimately live with their
sport experiences.
The fields of nutrition and fitness are always changing, which is why Sustain Your Body is here to
help navigate through the sea of misinformation and make health a part of your lifestyle. Sustain
Your Body believes that healthy eating and exercise should be easy and fun, so why should
learning be any different? Skyler is a senior kinesiology student at Acadia University in the
Exercise Science & Training Practicum working towards becoming CSEP-‐Certified Exercise
Physiologist. Alina, an Acadia Graduate, is a nutrition consultant and CSEP-‐Certified Personal
Trainer currently finishing her Master’s degree in Applied Human Nutrition at Mount Saint
Vincent University. Their passion for health inspired them to create “Sustain Your Body”, your
reliable resource for education and entertainment. Come to the workshop for fun and easy ways
to reduce your stress through physical activity and nutrition!
Placemaking – Megan Beliveau
This workshop will investigate how your sense of place can affect your wellness and wellbeing.
Join Megan Beliveau, a graduate of the Community Development Program, now working as a Don
for Res Life, as we reimagine Acadia’s campus as a factor in our wellbeing. How does living here
make us feel? Do we feel proud and safe? How do we improve these places to increase the
accessibility of its assets?
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