CAPS Workshops and Campus Offerings

Spring 2025 Events and Workshops

DBT Skills Drop-In Group
In this hands-on skills group, we will learn and practice tools for managing difficult emotions and tolerating distress. Each session will tackle at least one new set of skills. This is a drop-in group, and although you are not required to attend every group session, we encourage that you attend as many as possible. Every skill does not work for every person or every situation, so the more skills you know, the more resources you will have when big emotions and events come up!

Select Tuesdays from 5PM to 6PM at CAPS (in the Student Health and Wellness Center)

  • 2/5 -- Emotion Regulation: Changing Emotional Responses
  • 2/19 -- Emotion Regulation: Reducing Vulnerability to Negative Emotions
  • 3/26 -- Emotion Regulation: Managing Difficult Emotions
  • 4/9 -- Distress Tolerance: Crisis Survival, Part 1
  • 4/23 -- Distress Tolerance: Crisis Survival, Part 2
  • 5/7 -- Distress Tolerance: Accepting Reality

Hearts & Crafts
In an effort to break down stigma and barriers surrounding mental health literacy, CAPS and the Inclusive Excellence Fellows Initiative are teaming up to continue to host the Hearts & Crafts Initiative. Hearts & Crafts is a space for students to come talk about whatever they would like -- while making a fun craft, of course!

Select Tuesdays from 4:30PM to 5:30PM in Kohlberg 228

  • 2/25 -- Tote Bag Decorating
  • 3/25 -- Suncatchers
  • 4/8 -- Button Making
  • 4/22 -- Mystery Craft

Let's Talk
Let's Talk is an informal, confidential, drop-in consultation with CAPS staff. No topic is off-limits! Let's Talk can help you gain support, insight, and additional resources. Common issues include stress, worry, sadness, relationship difficulties, academics, and family struggles.

@ the Black Cultural Center's Room 303B

  • Thursdays, from 3PM to 4PM
  • Select Thursdays (2/20, 3/6, 3/27, 4/10, and 4/24), from 4PM to 5PM

@ the Gender and Sexuality Center's 3rd Floor

  • Wednesdays, from 1PM to 2PM
  • Select Wednesdays (2/26, 3/26, 4/9, 4/23, and 5/7), from 2PM to 3PM

@ the Intercultural Center's General Meeting Room

  • Tuesdays, from 1PM to 2PM
  • Select Tuesdays (2/4, 2/18, 3/4, 3/18, 4/1, 4/15, 4/29, and 5/13), from 2PM to 3PM

@ the Michael Mullan Tennis Center's Room 110B

  • Mondays, from 2PM to 4PM
  • Fridays, from 10AM to 12PM

Queer Support Space
In partnership with the Gender and Sexuality Center, our Queer Support Space is a place for students to gather with queer staff for support around any number of issues: from school, to family, to global concerns.

Select Tuesdays (2/26, 3/19, 4/2, 4/16, 4/30, and 5/14) from 5PM to 6PM on the Gender and Sexuality Center's 2nd Floor

Thrive
Thrive workshops provide an opportunity to learn about a variety of psychological topics that are aimed to increase wellness. These workshops will help you gain insight and build skills important for emotional well-being.

Select Tuesdays from 4:30PM to 5:30PM in Kohlberg 302

  • 2/18 -- How to Survive a Break-Up
  • 3/4 -- Self-Compassion for Students and Student Activists
  • 3/18 -- When Thinking Fails: How Polyvagal Theory Can Help Soothe the Anxious Body and Mind
  • 4/1 -- Venting vs. Trauma-Dumping: How to Seek Support in a Healthy Way
  • 4/15 -- Unmasking the Imposter Phenomenon for College Students
  • 4/29 -- BYOB: Be Your Own Best (Friend)

 

Ongoing Events and Workshops

CAPS aims to support faculty, students, and staff in developing and/or facilitating trainings, workshops, and other events. Please email us at CAPS Outreach with your idea or request!