Workshops for (study) associations

This workshop will give you insight into how to slow down and be more mindfully present in the here and now. Mindfulness is a proven method that helps to increase your resilience, reduce stress symptoms, deal with the crowds and impressions around you. In this workshop, you will learn more about the background of mindfulness and do some exercises together.

In our world of many options, it can be difficult to decide what you want. In this workshop, you will gain insights and skills to make choices with more confidence. These can be choices in your daily life, but also for your studies, career and life. We will discuss the process of choosing and you will learn how to find out what is important to you. Suffering from choice stress? In the workshop, we look at where this comes from and give you tools to deal with it.

Communication is often most enjoyable and effective when it is equal. With the premise that each is capable of thinking and acting for themselves. Unfortunately, we often do not communicate this way. There may be unconscious patterns at play that make us feel superior or inferior. In this training we use a concept from Transactional Analysis to clarify this. We practice talking to each other more consciously and equally. It is an upbeat training that can give a lot of insight into your relationships with others...and also with yourself.

This workshop will give you insight into how stress and energy (work) together. We look at how you can recognise your own stress signals, at what draws energy from you, how to recharge your energy and lower your stress levels. We cover theory, do exercises and reflect individually and with the group. After attending the workshop, you will have tools to get a better grip on your stress and energy levels.

The hustle and bustle of everyday life often prevent us from listening carefully. Are you really hearing what someone is saying? With deep listening, we engage our body and attention completely to connect on another level. Listening in this way is valuable and beneficial for both yourself and the other person. In the workshop, you will learn some steps that can help to listen in this way. It can strengthen the bond between members of an association in a surprising way.

Life as a student usually involves a lot: breaking free from your parental home, finding your way in student life, entering into relationships, discovering your identity and focusing on a future. In this workshop, you will work with a number of life themes or questions according to a specific discussion model. You examine what is going on in your life and discuss it with (a number of) members of your association. A workshop that offers a great opportunity to get to know each other and yourself better.

If required, we also offer tailor-made workshops. For example, on finding your direction with Ikigai, or on exploring life questions. Contact us to discuss your needs and wishes in this regard.

In the Active bystander workshop, you will be given tools within an hour to know how to recognise undesirable behaviour and what you can do to address it. That way, you will never again find yourself at a loss for words when you see someone doing something you really don't think is OK, but are unsure whether to intervene. .

Would you like to organise an Active Bystander or other workshop on social safety for your course, study or student association? Then contact social safety project manager Robin Smeets at socialeveiligheid@uu.nl. 

Team Social Safety, in collaboration with Bestuurlijk Actief, is organising a training course on dealing with undesirable behaviour especially for student administrators and confidential contact persons of study and student associations. Check the website

Foundation Door het Geluid organises workshops on mental health, delivered by and for students. The focus is on open conversations about mental challenges, providing practical tools and raising awareness. Students learn to cope with pressure, understand fellow students better and find overview of available resources. Workshops include two to three freely fillable topics, tailored to student issues.

The workshops offered by Door het Geluid consist of a combination of topics that they have found to be prevalent among students. This combination is free to be filled in. The standard for the workshops is two to three topics, choosing from:

• performance pressure
• eating problems
• pretend student
• financial pressure
• substance use
• depression
• mourning after the loss of a loved one
• loneliness
• suicide