Wednesday 25-04-2018 - 10:00

From 30 April – 11 May, we’ll be drawing attention to students mental health through the Wellbeing Network’s Mind Your Head Campaign. This year the campaign focuses on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a way for each of us to create a personalised wellbeing toolkit.

The 5 Ways to Wellbeing are:

Take Notice

Take Notice is about engaging with your surroundings, both people or environment. It’s about grounding yourself in the world around you, while being aware of your own presence in it.

 

Keep Learning

Focus on more holistic learning that engages with an interest you didn’t realise you had or had forgotten about. For a bit of escapism perhaps read a fiction book or watch a documentary on a subject that interests you.

 

Be Active

Be Active is a call for action; this does not have to be ‘exercise’ as it’s portrayed all over media. As we know, physical activity has a huge benefit on mental health, and there’s a whole range of fitness activities offered by the uni to try and the BeActive Campus timetable is now FREE. But first and foremost, find something you can enjoy doing, to celebrate your body and mind.

 

Connect

Take time to re-evaluate the connections you have, and appreciate the people close to you. Re-connect with a friend you haven’t seen in a while or invite a course mate for a joint revision session. And make new connections! However small a connection may seem, no connections are meaningless and one helpful response from you could make a day’s/week’s/month’s difference to another.

 

Give

Being appreciative of your own ability to give can help you feel empowered by the positive impact you’re having on others. Give a friend some time in your week to chat, give a meaningful compliment to someone who needs to hear it, give a listening ear to a friend going through a hard time; the possibilities for give are endless. But also give time to yourself to do something you love or celebrate your strengths.

 

Throughout the Mind Your Head campaign the Wellbeing Network will host a series of workshops and events connected to the 5 Ways to Wellbeing, providing you with a great opportunity for some revision breaks!

See the full line up of events

Written by Abbie Jessop, Chair of the Wellbeing Network