More than 2 out of 3 students who come to CAPS report that anxiety is their main
concern.

Luckily, very effective techniques and methods exist that can help you feel less
overwhelmed and more in control of your emotions. You can implement these on
your own, with just a little bit of knowledge and practice.

CAPS is proud to offer the newly updated Anxiety Toolbox and Emotional
Resilience workshops that will teach you the skills you need to know to feel better
equipped to deal with the challenges in your life. These workshops help you to
understand and implement some of the latest strategies for preventing and
managing your emotions and living a calmer and more balanced life.

Anxiety Toolbox:

• Mindful Coping: This session will focus on developing coping skills that you
  can implement right away to help you cope with anxiety and worry.
• Taming Your Thoughts: This session will help you better understand how your
  thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and body sensations interact with one another
  when experiencing anxiety.
• From Avoidance to Acceptance: This session will focus on practicing
  acceptance-based skills for managing your worry and learning ways to
  continue to engage with a life you are excited about.

• Conquering Distress: Accept, Cope & Endure: This session introduces the terms
  distress and tolerance and focuses on building skills for being able to tolerate
  and accept distress.
• Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster: This session will focus on identifying
  and labeling your emotions, creating awareness about choices/options you
  have in response to overwhelming emotions, and teaching you specific skills
  to assist with emotion regulation.
• Communicate with Confidence: This session will help you communicate more
  effectively through understanding your communication and boundary styles
  as well as values around relationships.

What is the structure of the Essential Skills Workshops?

Workshops are much like attending a class. Students meet for 1 hour each week.
Each week a CAPS clinician will provide attendees with new information and guide
students to practice new techniques they can implement in their lives.

Each week will cover a new topic on a rotation. The workshops are designed to be
started at any point, so you do not have to wait.

• Mindful Coping
• Taming Your Thoughts
• From Avoidance to Acceptance
• Conquering Distress: Accept, Cope & Endure
• Getting Off the Emotional Rollercoaster
• Communicate with Confidence

Can I just show up to an Essential Skills Workshop?

No, essential skills workshops are only for CAPS clients, and you will need to be
referred to a workshop by a CAPS clinician. If you would like to learn skills to better
manage your emotions, you can attend an access visit appointment and let your
counselor know. They will then help you determine if an essential skills workshop
is a good fit for you.

Is a workshop a good fit?

A workshop may be a good fit for you if:

• You are having a hard time dealing with your anxiety or other emotions.
• You are the type of person who doesn’t just want to talk about your issues
  but wants to know what you can do about your situation and how to take
  action.
• You are motivated to learn new skills and ready to implement changes on
  your own.

Here is what students say:

“It has assisted on putting my life back on track” 

“It helped me to be more aware of the situation around me and provided me with several coping/ improvement methods” 

“It was very insightful” 

“Topics and methods are very helpful” 

Ready to take the next step?

Attend a free Access Visit to get your needs assessed and see if a workshop is right for you