Psychological Wellness Workshops

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.

1. To understand time management
2. To explore common time wasters
3. To review your present situation
4. To introduce classic principles of time control
5. 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.

1. Use A-B-C Model to construct more rational and self-constructive beliefs from ‘Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy’
2. 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?

1. To learn about different negative emotion
2. To enhance skills and strategies
3. To cope with the negative emotion

 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.

How to recognise and avoid cognitive bias

1. To define what cognitive biases are
2. To identify types of cognitive bias
3. To enhance your ability in dealing with cognitive bias by case illustration

Are You a Perfectionist?

1. To introduce the definition of perfectionism
2. To explore whether you have perfectionism tendency
3. To understand the characteristics of perfectionism
4. To build up a healthy intrapersonal relationship

 Understanding Emotions

1. Use A-B-C Model to construct more rational and self-constructive beliefs from ‘Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy
2. Understand the core relationship between your cognitive, emotion and behaviour

Important notes:  

1. 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.
2. The enrolment of workshops will be closed 5 days before it starts.
3. Students on the waiting list will be notified of successful enrolment when vacancies are available.
4. If you have any special requests, please contact us at stud.counselling@polyu.edu.hk.
5. 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.
6. If you encounter any technical issues when entering the session, please call us at 2766-6800.
7. For other “points to note”, please click this link.

3 tips for freshman

1. Explore stress management skills
2. Adjustment tips in new learning environment
3. How to explore alternatives to new challenges

Ways to tackle internet addiction: Joy of missing out (JOMO)

1. What is the Internet Addiction?
2. What is the fear of missing out (FOMO)?
3. What is the joy of missing out (JOMO)
4. What are your own ways to embrace the JOMO in daily life?

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

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

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

1. Overview of the Book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
2. Brief introduction on the 7 habits
3. Examine how the 7 habits integrate to your daily life step-by-step

Important notes:  

1. 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.
2. The enrolment of workshops will be closed 5 days before it starts.
3. If you have any special requests, please contact us at stud.counselling@polyu.edu.hk.
4. 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.
5. If you encounter any technical issues when entering the session, please call us at 2766-6800.
6. 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