Slowing Down: Workshop Teaches About Boundaries
Continuing their Enrichment Series, Student Counseling Services will hold their third workshop discussing occupational health and how to slow down and create boundaries on March 8 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in DeMoss 4162.
Student Counseling Services offers individual counseling, group counseling, crisis services, workshops, enrichment presentations and connections to the Lynchburg community to aid students with anything related to mental health.
Counselor Mallory Bailey hopes this workshop could be a time for students to face their fear of counseling and find solutions to their problems.
“The goal is for students to have a chance to hear counselors discuss and answer questions related to topics that are brought into the counseling room,” Bailey said. “We hope students gain insights into challenges they or their friends are facing.”
Bailey said they want to help students gain a deeper understanding of how to have healthy boundaries while juggling school, personal life and social life through this workshop.
Graduate student Irene Park expressed her interest in the workshop. She is majoring in clinical mental health counseling and wants to learn about healthy boundaries in her life.
“(I) hope to learn balancing between work and personal life (and) how to develop and implement self-care; learning healthy ways to set boundaries and when to set boundaries,” Park said. “I think it is an important topic to discuss to prevent burnout and maintaining mental health well-being that allow us to (succeed in the) long run.”
Bailey said she believes the topic for this workshop – slowing down and setting boundaries – is important for college students to hear.
“In the counseling office, we often hear (of) challenges in balancing academics (and) work with personal life and social life,” Bailey said. “Although our focus in coming to college is to complete academic goals, we have various other responsibilities of importance. Boundaries and taking time to be aware of (our) needs is an important aspect of balancing college responsibilities.”
Student Counseling Services will continue to teach students how to live a healthier school lifestyle by hosting these events. Bailey said they hope that their events will decrease the nervousness of coming into their office and allow students a different kind of space to learn about mental health.
“Our goal in hosting events is to provide an opportunity for students to access our counselors outside of the individual counseling office,” Bailey said. “We hope that students feel comfortable in letting us know how to help them best and what topics they would like a counseling perspective on.”
The final Enrichment Series workshop this semester will discuss students’ Personal Spiritual Health: Sitting Well at the Well on April 12 with Dr. Jeanne Brooks. Bailey said that Student Counseling Services will take suggestions from students that attended this year’s Enrichment Series to plan for relevant topics for next year.
Student Counseling Services offers not only workshops but also provides many other tips and useful information on their website,liberty.edu/students/student-counseling/. There are mindfulness and relaxation exercise videos, physical health tips, online counseling resources and mental health apps. Their office is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and is located in Green Hall 1830.
Jang is a news reporter.