Campus Suicide Prevention Program
Campus Suicide Prevention Program
Making Connections Workshop
MISSION
Suicide Prevention through body based learning.
HISTORY
The Shannon Hardy Making Connections Workshops began through the Department of Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling in 2002 in honor of a young woman named Shannon Hardy who suffered from Bipolar Disorder and at the age of 25 took her own life. It is the hope of those involved in this project to employ Shannon's love of movement as a vehicle for change through educating the community on suicide prevention.
APPROACH
This workshop utilizes didactic and experimental approaches to learning. The emphasis is placed on life-skills training in addition to information dissemination. Participants will be instructed in body-based approaches to learning whereby a felt experience and kinesthetic knowing can aide in warning sign detection and foster prevention.
Masters level Dance/Movement Therapists will facilitate all workshops.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Enhance mental wellness
MISSION
Suicide Prevention through body based learning.
HISTORY
The Shannon Hardy Making Connections Workshops began through the Department of Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling in 2002 in honor of a young woman named Shannon Hardy who suffered from Bipolar Disorder and at the age of 25 took her own life. It is the hope of those involved in this project to employ Shannon's love of movement as a vehicle for change through educating the community on suicide prevention.
APPROACH
This workshop utilizes didactic and experimental approaches to learning. The emphasis is placed on life-skills training in addition to information dissemination. Participants will be instructed in body-based approaches to learning whereby a felt experience and kinesthetic knowing can aide in warning sign detection and foster prevention.
Masters level Dance/Movement Therapists will facilitate all workshops.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Enhance mental wellness
- Participants will increase their social and supportive networks on campus.
- Participants will identify and practice effective communication skills.
- Participants will be more willing to utilize the Counseling Center services at Columbia College Chicago.
- Participants will learn to identify their feelings and the feelings of others through body signals.
- Participants will learn and practice affect regulation through movement experientials.
- Participants will learn and practice empathy building skills.
- Participants will demonstrate the ability to differentiate between and identify in themselves and others the risk factors, warning signs and protective factors of suicide.
- Participants will demonstrate the ability to identify the early to late warning signs that will require an effectively empathic reponse.
- Participants will demonstrate the ability to take effective action as the completion of their empathic response.