Communication
Life skills training
Life skills training
Personal Growth/ Self Understanding
Relationships
Relationships
Stress Management
Stress Management
Let’s have a heart-to-heart talk!
Date: 20 September 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 15.00-16.30
Venue: QR504
Target: All PolyU student
Language: English
Instructor: Mr Newman Cheung (Associate Counsellor)
Unraveling Puzzle: MBTI® for Self-Awareness and Effective Communication
Date: 20 October 2023 AND 27 October 2023 (Friday)
Time: 14.30-17.30
Target: All PolyU students
Language: Cantonese
Instructor: Ms Cynthia Cheng (Counsellor)
MBTI® for PhDs: Enhancing Self-Awareness and Building Stronger Supervisor Relationships
Date: 24 November 2023 AND 1 December 2023 (Friday)
Time: 13.30-16.30
Target: PhD students
Language: English
Instructo : Ms Cynthia Cheng (Counsellor)
Time Never Discriminates
Date: 25 September 2023 (Monday)
Time: 15.00-17.00
Target: All PolyU students
Language: Cantonese
Instructor: Ms Salina Chan (Senior Counsellor)
Are You a Perfectionist
Date: 26 September 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 14.30-16.30
Target: All PolyU students
Language: English
Instructor: Dr Sharon Wong (Senior Counsellor)
MINDFUL-KINDNESS towards myself
Date: 26 October 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 15.00-17.00
Target: Postgraduate students
Language: English
Instructor: Ms Sharon To (Counsellor)
LEGO Serious Play® – Self-understanding and Career Exploration
Date: 14 November 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 15.00-16.30
Target: Senior year students
Language: English
Instructor: Ms Elaina Lee (Associate Counsellor)
The Courage to be Disliked: Reflection on Interpersonal Struggle
Date: 13 October 2023 (Friday)
Time: 15.00-16.30
Target: All PolyU students
Language: English
Instructor: Mr Ben Wong (Associate Counsellor)
How to make a GREAT first impression with speed dating activity
Date: 9 October 2023 (Monday)
Time: 15.00-17.00
Target: PhD students
Language: English
Instructor: Ms Cassie Chan (Counsellor)
Learning how to love - The 5 love languages
Date: 13 November 2023 (Monday)
Time: 15.00-17.00
Target: PhD students
Language: English
Instructor: Ms Cassie Chan (Counsellor)
In pursuit of self-care – expressive arts workshop
Date: 27 September 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 10.00-12.00
Target: All PolyU students
Language: Cantonese
Instructor: Mr Ming Tsang (Student Guidance Officer)
A relaxing "Plant" for yourself
Date: 31 October 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 13.30-15.00
Target: All PolyU students
Language: English
Instructor: Ms Allie Fan (Student Guidance Officer)
Relaxation and Sleep Better with Aroma
Date: 9 October 2023 (Monday)
Time: 12.00-14.00
Target: All PolyU students
Language: English
Instructor: Ms Kadence Fong (Student Guidance Officer)
Stop Procrastination
Date: 28 September 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 15.30-17.30
Target: All PolyU students
Language: English
Instructor: Ms Nancy Chong (Counsellor)
A Journey to Cultivate Happiness
Date: 11 October 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 16.00-17.30
Target: All PolyU students
Language: Cantonese
Instructor: Ms Cat Chan (Associate Counsellor)
Declutter your mind; Detox your mind
Date: 24 October 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 16.30-18.00
Target: All PolyU students
Language: Cantonese
Instructor: Ms Jazz Hui (Counsellor)
Relax Relieve Recharge
Date: 9 November 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 13.00-15.00
Target: All PolyU students
Language: English
Instructor: Ms Tracy Woo (Associate Counsellor)
Understanding Non-verbal
This workshop aims at enhancing your awareness and understandings of others’ non-verbal signals in communication. Enhancing awareness about people’s non-verbal communication helps you to be a more effective communicator. You will learn to observe facial expressions and body gestures for improving the ability to understand others.
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: All Students
Instructor: Ms Cat Chan (Associate Counsellor)
Date: 20/2/2023 (Mon)
Time: 14.30 – 16.30
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Emotions in Motion
This workshop aims at introducing relaxation exercises to release emotions stuck in your body.
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: All Students
Instructor: Mr Merv Mok (Counsellor)
Date: 21/2/2023 (Tue)
Time: 15.00 – 16.30
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Coping With Procrastination
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: Higher Diploma Students and Undergraduates
Instructor: Ms Nancy Chong (Counsellor)
Date: 7/3/2023 (Tue)
Time: 14.30 – 16.30
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Introduction to Pastel Nagomi Art (和諧粉彩)
This workshop aims at raising your awareness in psychological wellbeing by encouraging you to express “gratitude” to others in art forms. The workshop will provide a comfortable space for you to relieve stress, increase connectedness to others through group sharing, art creation and guided facilitation.
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese
Target: All students
Instructor: Mr Ming Tsang (Student Guidance Officer)
Date: 10/3/2023 (Fri)
Time: 14.30 – 16.30
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MBTI® for Self-understanding
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (M.B.T.I) is a self-report questionnaire designed to create a better understanding of the self and others. It helps you to understand preferences in four different dimensions which will be discussed in the course. You may effectively improve your personal interaction and team performance with self-awareness and insights.
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: All Students
Instructor: Ms Cynthia Cheng (Counsellor)
Date: 22/3/2023 (Wed)
Time: 15.00 – 18.00
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Finding Peace With Pour Painting (ENG)
This workshop aims at providing you with a silent space to relieve stress. You will be using acrylic paints to create two to three art pieces in the workshop. The paintings will need to be dried for 18-24 hours and picked up later.
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: All students
Instructor: Ms Tracy Woo (Associate Counsellor)
Date: 2/2/2023 (Thur)
Time: 14.30 – 16.30
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Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy – 靜觀生活 喜樂當下
This group aims at cultivating awareness and concentration in our daily life, and enhancing our self-understanding, such as where our emotional reactions stem from, in order to take better care of ourselves. It can also cultivate our self-compassion that can alleviate stress from work, close relationships and chronic pain.
Mindful breathing
Mindful movement
Body scan
Sitting meditation
Mindful stretching
Cognitive exercise
Sharing and reflection.
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese
Target: All Full-Time Students
Instructor: Ms Sharon To (Associate Counsellor)
Date: 9/2/2023 – 30/3/2023 (Every Thursday), 11/3/2023 (1 day retreat on Saturday)
Time: 14.30 – 16.30 (Every Thursday), 10.00 – 16.30 (1 day retreat on Saturday)
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How To Recognise And Avoid Cognitive Bias?
We usually try our best to make objective and logical decisions. However, we may encounter biased thinking on some occasions.This workshop will help you to enhance your awareness of cognitive biases and to learn ways to minimise cognitive biases in thinking for better well-being.
To define what cognitive biases are
To identify types of cognitive bias
To enhance your ability to deal with cognitive bias by case illustration
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: All Students
Instructor: Mr Ben Wong (Associate Counsellor)
Date: 10/2/2023 (Fri)
Time: 15.00 - 17.00
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Relaxation and Sleep Better with Aroma (ENG)
This workshop aims at fostering students’ understanding on how to relax and sleep better with different aroma.
Introduction to common essential oils and their use in self-calm and sleeping
Making of aroma stone
Sharing and discussion
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: All Students
Instructor: Ms Kadence Fong (Student Guidance Officer)
Date: 17/2/2023 (Fri)
Time: 15.00 - 17.00
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Rethinking about Life and Death
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese
Target: All Students
Instructor: Ms Crystal Lau (Student Guidance Officer)
Date: 17/2/2023 (Fri) and 24/2/2023 (Fri)
Time: 15.30 – 17.00
Tackling the Internet Addiction: Joy of Missing Out
This group aims at enhancing the understandings of internet addiction, and facilitating learning of relaxation skills and scheduling of the JOMO life.
• To be aware of the high-risk situations in excessive use of the Internet
• To learn urge management
• To experience the relaxation methods (playing board games with friends, music & breathing, enjoying Teatime, exercise)
• To practice the JOMO life
Medium of Instruction: English Supplemented With Cantonese
Target: All students
Instructor: Mr Newman Cheung (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery Mode: Face-to-face
Date: 21/09/2022 (Wed), 28/09/2022 (Wed), 5/10/2022 (Wed), 12/10/2022 (Wed)
Time: 15.00-16.00
Important Note: Students are required to attend ALL SESSIONS.
Understanding the relationship between emotion, behaviour, and cognition
This group aims at introducing the ABC Model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, the automatic thoughts, enhancement of the awareness that lead to negative emotions, and learning ways to minimise its influence for better well-being.
• Introduce the ABC Model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Identify types of automatic thoughts, rules, and assumptions
• Enhance the awareness of your own ABC model and relationship with emotions
• Introduce tips to be your own therapist
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: All students
Instructor: Mr Ben Wong (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery Mode: Face-to-face
Date: 07/10/2022 (Fri), 14/10/2022 (Fri), 21/10/2022 (Fri), 28/10/2022 (Fri)
Time: 15.00-17.00
Important Note: Students are required to attend ALL SESSIONS.
Managing Your Time For Effective Learning
This workshop aims at enhancing your awareness of your use of time and to foster your time management skills.
- To understand time management
- To explore common time wasters
- To review your present situation
- To introduce classic principles of time control
- To provide time-saving tips
Medium of Instruction: English and Cantonese
Target: First-year Bachelor’s Students
Instructor: Ms Salina Chan (Senior Counsellor)
Delivery Mode: Zoom
Date (English Sessions): 17/10/2022 (Mon), 24/10/2022 (Mon)
Date (Cantonese Sessions): 19/10/2022 (Wed), 26/10/2022 (Wed)
Time: 15.00-17.00
Important Note: Students are required to attend BOTH SESSIONS of selected language.
Find Your Inner Tortoise With Kokedama Making
This workshop aims at encouraging you to embrace simplicity and do at your own pace through Kokedama making. It is a slow-living experience that focuses on the process without comparison and judgement.
Medium of Instruction: English and Cantonese
Target: All students
Instructor: Ms Kammy Ho (Student Guidance Officer)
Delivery Mode: Face-to-face
Date (Cantonese Session): 18/10/2022 (Tue)
Date (English Session): 20/10/2022 (Thurs)
Time: 10.30-12.00
How To Tolerate Negative Emotion?
The capability of handling negative emotions can help us return to a state of equilibrium quickly when new stressors arise. We can try to learn more about our emotion and skills to cope with it.
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: All students
Instructor: Ms Trista Chow (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery Mode: Face-to-face
Date: 19/10/2022 (Wed)
Time: 10.00-12.00
Understanding Emotions
This workshop aims at enhancing your emotional management.
- Use A-B-C Model to construct more rational and self-constructive beliefs from ‘Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy’
- To understand the core relationship between your cognitive, emotion and behaviour
Medium of Instruction: English
Target: Undergraduates
Instructor: Ms Sharon To (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery Mode: Face-to-face
Date: 27/10/2022 (Thurs)
Time: 14.30-16.30
Finding Yourself in Art
This group aims at enhancing self-understanding, self-exploration and self-esteem through making different art work such as face mask and drawing.
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese
Target: Undergraduates
Instructor: Ms Tracy Woo (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery Mode: Face-to-face
Date: 31/10/2022 (Mon), 2/11/2022 (Wed), 7/11/2022 (Mon), 9/11/2022 (Wed)
Time: 14.30-16.00
Important Note: Students are required to attend ALL SESSIONS. Screening and selection will be conducted prior to the commencement of the group. Successful students will be notified by 26 Oct (Wed).
Exploring Relationship Through Expressive Arts
• To foster your self-understanding through expressive arts facilitation
• To promote inclusiveness and connectedness by various means such as group sharing, art creation and guided facilitation
Medium of Instruction: English and Cantonese
Target: All Students
Instructor: Mr Ming Tsang (Student Guidance Officer)
Delivery Mode: Face-to-face
Date: 3/11/2022 (Thurs), 10/11/2022 (Thurs)
Time: 11.00-12.30 (Cantonese Sessions), 14.30-16.00 (English Sessions)
Important Note: Students are required to attend BOTH SESSIONS of selected language.
Personality Dimensions For Personal Growth
Personality Dimensions® helps you to enhance your self-awareness to your strength and weakness of your personality, understanding you core needs, characteristics, strengths, skills, weaknesses, likes and various other areas for each of the four temperaments.
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese
Target: Higher diploma students/ Undergraduates
Instructor: Ms Cynthia Cheng (Counsellor)
Delivery Mode: Face-to-face
Date: 4/11/2022 (Fri) and 11/11/2022 (Fri)
Time: 14.30-17.30
Important Note: Students are required to attend BOTH SESSIONS.
Tips for moving from Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) to Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)
This workshop aims at enhancing your understanding of FOMO and JOMO, and to learn the tips to embrace JOMO.
- What is Internet Addiction?
- What is the fear of missing out (FOMO?)
- What is the joy of missing out (JOMO)?
- What are your own ways to embrace the JOMO in daily life?
Medium of Instruction: English Supplemented With Cantonese
Target: All Students
Instructor: Mr Newman Cheung (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery Mode: Face-to-face
Date: 8/11/2022 (Tue)
Time: 15.00-16.30
How to tolerate negative emotion?
The capability of handling negative emotions can help us return to a state of equilibrium quickly when new stressors arise. We can try to learn more about our emotion and skills to cope with it.
Medium of Instruction: English
Instructor: Ms. Trista Chow (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery mode: hybrid
Date: 5/10/2021 (Tue)
Time: 10.00-12.00
How to Stress Less
1. Understand the nature of Stress.
2. Test your stress level.
3. Learn different techniques to deal with stress in daily life.
Medium of Instruction: English
Instructor: Ms. Temy Leung (Counsellor)
Delivery mode: hybrid
Date: 6/10/2021 (Wed)
Time: 11.00-13.00
How to recognise and avoid cognitive bias
-To define what cognitive biases are
-To identify types of cognitive bias
-To enhance your ability in dealing with cognitive bias by case illustration"
Medium of Instruction: English
Instructor: Mr. Ben Wong (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery mode: hybrid
Date: 8/10/2021 (Fri)
Time: 15.00-17.00
Are You a Perfectionist?
-To introduce the definition of perfectionism
-To explore whether you have perfectionism tendency
-To understand the characteristics of perfectionism
-To build up a healthy intrapersonal relationship
Medium of Instruction: English
Instructor: Dr Sharon Wong (Senior Counsellor)
Delivery mode: hybrid
Date: 22/10/2021 (Fri)
Time: 14.30-16.30
Understanding Emotions
-Use A-B-C Model to construct more rational and self-constructive beliefs from ‘Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy’
-Understand the core relationship between your cognitive, emotion and behaviour
Medium of Instruction: English
Instructor: Ms. Sharon To (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery mode: hybrid
Date: 4/11/2021 (Thu) and 11/11/2021 (Thu)
Time: 14.30-16.30
3 tips for freshman
-explore stress management skills
-adjustment tips in new learning Environment
-how to explore alternatives to new challenges
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese
Instructor: Ms. Cynthia Cheng (Counsellor)
Delivery mode: face-to-face
Date: 9/9/2021 (Thu)
Time: 14.30-17.30
Ways to tackle internet addiction: Joy of missing out (JOMO)
- What is the Internet Addiction?
- What is the fear of missing out (FOMO?)
- What is the joy of missing out (JOMO)?
- What are your own ways to embrace the JOMO in daily life?
Medium of Instruction: English
Instructor: Mr. Newman Cheung (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery mode: hybrid
Date: 13/9/2021 (Mon) and 20/9/2021 (Mon)
Time: 15.00-16.30
Managing your time for Effective Learning
1. Understand time management
2. Explore common time wasters
3. Review your present time management
4. Introduce classic principles of time control
5. Time-saving tips
Medium of Instruction: English
Instructor: Ms. Salina Chan (Senior Counsellor)
Delivery mode: hybrid
Date: 15/9/2021 (Wed)
Understanding Relationship - a guide for couples
1) Enriches love relationship;
2) Understand the importance of love relationship for emotional well-being
3) Resolve conflicts and power struggle from the relationship
Medium of Instruction: English
Instructor: Mr. Merv Mok (Associate Counsellor)
Delivery mode: hybrid
Date: 23/9/2021 (Thu) and 30/9/2021 (Thu)
Time: 16.30-18.00
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
-Overview of the Book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
-Brief introduction on the 7 habits
-Examine how the 7 habits integrate to your daily life step-by-step
Medium of Instruction: English
Instructor: Ms. Nancy Chong (Counsellor)
Delivery mode: hybrid
Date: 27/9/2021 (Mon)
Time: 10.30-12.30
How to tolerate negative emotion?
- To learn about different negative emotion
- To enhance skills and strategies
- To cope with the negative emotion
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Date: 5 October 2021 (Tuesday) Time: 10.00-12.00 Language: English Target: All students Instructor: Ms. Trista Chow, Associate Counsellor Join Zoom session: FULL (registration closed) Join F2f session: FULL (registration closed) |
How to Stress Less
- Understand the nature of Stress.
- Test your stress level.
- Learn different techniques to deal with stress in daily life.
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Date: 6October 2021 (Wednesday) Time: 11.00-13.00 Language: English Target: All students Instructor: Ms. Temy Leung, Counsellor Join Zoom session: FULL (registration closed) Join F2f session: FULL (registration closed) |
How to recognise and avoid cognitive bias
- To define what cognitive biases are
- To identify types of cognitive bias
- To enhance your ability in dealing with cognitive bias by case illustration
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Date: 8 October 2021 (Friday) Time: 15.00-17.00 Language: English Target: All students Instructor: Mr. Ben Wong, Associate Counsellor Join Zoom session: FULL (registration closed) Join F2f session: FULL (registration closed) |
Are You a Perfectionist?
- To introduce the definition of perfectionism
- To explore whether you have perfectionism tendency
- To understand the characteristics of perfectionism
- To build up a healthy intrapersonal relationship
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Date: 22 October 2021 (Friday) Time: 14.30-16.30 Language: English Target: Undergraduate students Instructor: Dr Sharon Wong, Senior Counsellor |
Understanding Emotions
- Use A-B-C Model to construct more rational and self-constructive beliefs from ‘Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy
- Understand the core relationship between your cognitive, emotion and behaviour
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Date: 4 November 2021, 11 November 2021 (Thursday) Time: 14.30-16.30 Language: English Target: Undergraduate students Instructor: Ms. Sharon To, Associate Counsellor |
Important notes:
- Counselling and Wellness Section (CWS) will review the event/activity from time to time in accordance with the development of the epidemic situation, and will make suitable adjustments taking into account all relevant factors.
- The enrolment of workshops will be closed 5 days before it starts.
- Students on the waiting list will be notified of successful enrolment when vacancies are available.
- If you have any special requests, please contact us at stud.counselling@polyu.edu.hk.
- For workshops and groups to be conducted on Zoom, please refer to the “Student Guide for Zoom Meeting” here. Please be encouraged to turn on your video camera and microphone during the Workshop/ Group session to facilitate interactions and communications.
- If you encounter any technical issues when entering the session, please call us at 2766-6800.
- For other “points to note”, please click this link.
3 tips for freshman
- Explore stress management skills
- Adjustment tips in new learning environment
- How to explore alternatives to new challenges
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Date: 9 September 2021 (Thursday) Time: 14.30-17.30 Language: Cantonese Target: Students from bachelor's degree, sub-degree and SYA year 1 students Instructor: Ms. Cynthia Cheng, Counsellor Only F2f session is available: FULL (registration closed) |
Ways to tackle internet addiction: Joy of missing out (JOMO)
- What is the Internet Addiction?
- What is the fear of missing out (FOMO)?
- What is the joy of missing out (JOMO)
- What are your own ways to embrace the JOMO in daily life?
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Date: 13 September 2021, 20 September 2021 (Monday) Time: 15.00-16.30 Language: English Target: All students Instructor: Mr. Newman Cheung, Associate Counsellor |
Managing your time for Effective Learning
- Understand time management
- Explore common time wasters
- Review your present time management
- Introduce classic principles of time control
- Time-saving tips
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Date: 15 September 2021 (Wednesday) Time: 15.00-17.00 Language: English Target: Students from bachelor's degree and sub-degree Instructor: Ms. Salina Chan, Senior Counsellor Join Zoom session: FULL (registration closed) Join F2f session: FULL (registration closed) |
Understanding Relationship - a guide for couples
- Enriches love relationship
- Understand the importance of love relationship for emotional well-being
- Resolve conflicts and power struggle from the relationship
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Date: 23 September 2021, 30 September 2021 (Thursday) Time: 16.30-18.00 Language: English Target: All students Instructor: Mr. Merv Mok, Associate Counsellor Join Zoom session: FULL (registration closed) Join F2f session: FULL (registration closed) |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Overview of the Book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
- Brief introduction on the 7 habits
- Examine how the 7 habits integrate to your daily life step-by-step
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Date: 27 September 2021 (Monday) Time: 10.30-12.30 Language: English Target: All students Instructor: Ms. Nancy Chong, Counsellor Join Zoom session: FULL (registration closed) Join F2f session: FULL (registration closed) |
Important notes:
- Counselling and Wellness Section (CWS) will review the event/activity from time to time in accordance with the development of the epidemic situation, and will make suitable adjustments taking into account all relevant factors.
- The enrolment of workshops will be closed 5 days before it starts.
- If you have any special requests, please contact us at stud.counselling@polyu.edu.hk.
- For workshops and groups to be conducted on Zoom, please refer to the “Student Guide for Zoom Meeting” here. Please be encouraged to turn on your video camera and microphone during the Workshop/ Group session to facilitate interactions and communications.
- If you encounter any technical issues when entering the session, please call us at 2766-6800.
- For other “points to note”, please click this link.
The series of psychoeducational e-materials aims to provide education and information about foundational mental health knowledge to the PolyU community. The e-materials cover topics of emotion management, stress management, interpersonal communication, positive thinking skills, and tips on enhancing psychological wellness. Each e-workshop video is narrated in English with an approximate duration of less than 20 minutes. Please give us some feedback by completing the questionnaire with the QR code below after going through the e-materials.
Experience Peace of Mind with Mindfulness
Self-Care Tips
