Health and Wellness Education

Mental Health Peer Educators are hosting two opportunities to write letters to folks across campus you care about. Stop by and spend a moment expressing gratitude for friends, partners, staff or faculty across the college. 

Join the MiddSafe Advocates for snacks and a photoshoot to show support for survivors during Wear Purple Day! Wear Purple Day is a national event during Dating and Domestic Violence Awareness Month and is a way to visibly demonstrate support for people who have been impacted by power based personal violence. MiddSafe will have giveaways, snacks, and purple accessories so stop by and take a selfie!

Interested in knowing more about Green Dot? Come to a Green Dot overview with Emily Wagner, Violence Prevention and Advocacy Specialist as part of Dating and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Sign up here.

Join WomenSafe advocates in a workshop about how to continue building a safe Middlebury community where power based personal violence isn’t tolerated. As part of Dating and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, this event will help build skills around supporting friends and knowing what to do when someone you know has been harmed or has caused harm. 

RSVP here.

Join the SGA Directors of Health and Wellness and Student Affairs leadership for updates on COVID-19 and Student health and wellness. There will be time for Q&A.

Join Ragen and Uplift in a conversation about making fitness culture at Middlebury more inclusive. Ragen’s signature keynote, “Fitness for Every Body” covers a wide range of topics that have been curated for our community including types of privilege and impacts within fitness culture, cultural messages about health and their social impacts, deconstructions of fitness and beauty standards, intersections of exclusionary fitness culture at Middlebury (racism, transphobia, ableism, weight stigma) and ways to co-create a more inclusive fitness culture on our campus!

Sign up to visit a local, alumni owned goat farm in Orwell, VT. Visit with baby goats and get off campus for a break. Bussing will be provided with pick up from ADK circle. Reserve your spot at go/goatfieldtrip. Brought to you by Health & Wellness Education and Middlebury College Acitivites Board.

Join visiting wellness practioner, Yoo-Jin Kang and Middlebury health educator, Maddie Hope to learn how to put self-care into action. This in-person workshop explores different self-care practices, mind-body modalities, and accessible healing practices to kickstart or add to your self-care toolkit! We will explore how techniques like art, imagery, somatics, and stretching can tie into your self-care routines. Register at: go/SelfCareInAction

Visit the Knoll’s labyrinth to learn more about walking meditation with Heath Educator, Maddie Hope. Enjoy a brief walking meditation lesson and practice in a peaceful setting. 15 spots available, register ahead of time at go/walkingmeditation

Join visiting wellness practitioner, Yoo-Jin Kang (she/her) for an interactive workshop to learn about the roots of self-care, how self-care ties into individual and collective liberation, and how to practice self-care in holistic and embodied ways! Register for the Zoom link at go.middlebury.edu/reclaimingselfcare