Strong Start workshops are a great way for first-year students to transiton to college life.

If you work with students who may benefit from this opportunity, please let them know about it and share the information below.

Registrations are not mandatory and students are always welcome to show up. Each workshop is 50 minutes long and will also feature prizes and the chance to meet other first-year students. 

Workshop 5: Getting Involved on Campus

February 13 and 15 at D-217

This workshop focuses on the importance of getting involved on campus for academic and career success. Participants will learn about different involvement opportunities available on campus.

Workshop 6: Wellness & Wrap-Up

February 20 and 22 at D-217

The final workshop concentrates on self-reflection and setting SMART Goals for academic and personal success, including exploring wellness tips such as healthy sleep patterns. 

Please share the following workshop with your students.

From Surviving to Thriving: Building your Resilience is a one-hour workshop aimed to support students shift from surviving their post-secondary experience to actually thriving, by helping them boost their resilience and plan for stressful situations. Students will develop a plan to get through potentially stressful situations can have a positive impact on both their personal and academic life.

Workshop dates:

• Virtual: Tuesday, February 13 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
• In-person: Thursday, February 15 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (North Campus, F309) 

The first 20 students to register and attend the workshop will receive a $20 gift card. 

Register for the workshop

This workshop will explore:

• Stressors and responses to stress
• Options and strategies to address challenges
• Choosing healthier strategies
• Building a network of support

Please share this workshop with your students:

Interested in developing practical tools and resources for cultivating and sustaining healthy and meaningful relationships? Join us for this Connection Club workshop series to learn more about expectations and power dynamics, and relationship with self.

Workshops will be led by Humber College counsellors and are open to both Humber College and University of Guelph-Humber students. Sessions will take place in-person in room NX111 on the North Campus. 

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Prompting Creativity: Multimodality and Generative AI

Generative AI has expanded our contemporary understanding of the possibilities of machine-enabled creativity. Yet art has worked with technology since its origin. What differences define this historical moment? Will art and technology become inseparable? Will human artists be rendered obsolete? This talk will examine problems from contemporary research in generative AI and its creative productions. AI’s recent multimodal forms of generativity (e.g., image + text) will be explored as a window onto art’s potential futures. What can the history of human creativity tell us about its machinic future?

More speaker info can be found on the PLS homepage.