UBC’s Thrive is November 1-30, 2023
LEARN ABOUT, TALK ABOUT, AND EXPLORE YOUR PATH TO MENTAL HEALTH
What is Thrive?
Thrive is a time when we come together as a UBC community to learn about, talk about, and explore ways to support our mental health. We continue to deal with a number of ongoing challenges and complexities that impact the mental health of our community. Now more than ever, it is important that we support one another in building positive mental health and creating opportunities for meaningful social connection.
With a focus this year on social wellbeing and amplifying diverse experiences and perspectives of mental health, this year’s Thrive will encourage and promote learning through the new university-wide Thrive Research Roundtable event. Bringing together some of the leading minds in the field of mental health, Creating Caring Communities: Exploring the Future of Social Wellbeing and Mental Health at UBC and Beyond on November 21 will feature an interdisciplinary panel of researchers who will share their research on critical themes of mental health and social wellbeing.
Promoting mental health literacy, reducing stigma, reflecting on diverse perspectives and experiences of mental health, creating a supportive campus culture, and ensuring our community has the resources to help them understand mental health issues, and improve coping skills and build resilience, are key to building mental health and to living, learning, and working well— this is what Thrive is all about!
But fostering and maintaining mental health is a year-round pursuit, and UBC recognizes that it plays a crucial role in the ability to live, work, and learn well— whether on campus or at home. A variety of in-person and virtual Thrive events will ensure students, faculty, staff, and community members have access to resources wherever they are.
Thrive is for everyone—we all have mental health, and while it might look and feel different for each of us, we all benefit from maintaining and fostering it. Whatever your pathway to mental health may be, we invite you to learn about it, talk about it and explore it during Thrive.
Here are just a few ways you can participate in Thrive this year:
- Explore the Thrive 5+: What ways can you learn how to thrive? It might be moving more, connecting with others, being in nature, or engaging in the arts. Explore ways to support your mental health that works best for you.
- Practice self-care: Prioritize your mental health by taking time to move your body between classes or meetings, take your lunch breaks, and get the rest you need.
- Visit the digital Thrive Gratitude Wall: practicing gratitude can help make managing difficult times a little bit easier. Explore the wall or add how you’re learning to thrive through gratitude.
- Build your mental health literacy with a workshop or training from Workplace Health, Wellbeing and Benefits (faculty and staff)
- Check-in with your colleagues (and yourself). Learn to recognize the signs something might not be right, and know the resources that are available.
Thrive is for everyone: we all have mental health, and while it might look and feel different for each of us, we all benefit from maintaining and fostering it. Whatever your pathway to mental health may be, we invite you to learn about it, talk about it and explore it during Thrive.