
Please check the CAPS GetInvolved page for details about dates, times and locations for these offerings. If you are part of a student community or organization and would like to schedule a presentation for your group, please contact manda.gatto@rutgers.edu with at least 2 weeks advance notice. Workshops are typically one hour but can be adjusted to meet the needs of your group. Thank you!
Workshops—Fall 2025
Fall Workshop information COMING SOON!
Whole Person Health, Wellness and Self-Care
This workshop shares information about the Domains of Wellness, wellness planning, self-care and resources on campus to promote student well-being.
Understanding and Addressing your Mental Health
This workshop shares information about how students can increase their awareness and understanding of their own mental health and resources for improving mental health and promoting wellbeing and success.
Socializing at College 101 – Fostering Healthy Relationships and Communication
This workshop discusses what a healthy relationship is, and over topics about setting boundaries, resolving conflicts, and having difficult conversations.
SUDS and BUDS
This workshop discusses harm prevention and reduction, knowing your limits, safety, substance use disorders, and supporting friends who may be having difficulties related to their substance use.
Perfectly Imperfect: Perfectionism vs. Healthy Striving and Self-Compassion
This workshop addresses challenges related to perfectionism, and how to cultivate healthy striving and self-compassion.
FLOW
This workshop promotes healthy coping through the use of creativity, art, music, storytelling, sound healing, drumming and dance. The intention is to reduce anxiety and stress, increase joy and provide an opportunity to connect with others through creativity and self-expression. No prior experience needed.
Nurturing Inclusive Communities
This workshop addresses ways to create, foster and contribute to an inclusive campus community
Understanding and Managing Anxiety, Stress and Emotional Regulation
This workshop gives an overview of emotional and biological mechanisms of anxiety and share skills for managing stress and regulating emotions.
Who Am I? Identity, Self-Discovery, and Imposter Syndrome
This workshop discusses facets of identity, the journey to finding yourself in college, imposter syndrome.
Emotion Regulation, Stress Management and Cultivating Resilience
This workshop addresses skills for recognizing, understanding and managing stress and emotions, and increasing resilience.
Tools for Coping With Stress: Mindfulness and Guided Meditation
This workshop focuses the benefits of mindfulness and provides opportunities to learn to incorporate the practice into every day life to improve stress management, focus and increase inner peace.
- Additional Resources
- Emotional Wellness Resources on Campus
- Rutgers Student Health - Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Program and Psychiatric Services (CAPS)
- Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program (ADAP)
- Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance (VPVA)
- Health Outreach, Promotion & Education (HOPE) Workshops are primarily facilitated by Peer Educators trained by HOPE, and can also be facilitated by professional staff from HOPE and/or CAPS staff. Workshops and trainings can be tailored to fit the individual needs of residence halls, student organizations, classrooms, and Greek organizations. Hope offerings also include Campus Connect: Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training and Mental Health First Aid, for more information, click here.
- Social Wellness Resources on Campus
- Physical Wellness Resources on Campus
- Recreation and also, check out the app RUREC2GO!
- IFitness & Wellness Classes
- Sports Clubs
- International Education Week 11/13 – 11/17
- Environmental Wellness Resources on Campus
- Spiritual Wellness Resources on Campus
The Multifaith Council – For information about Interfaith Prayer/Meditation Rooms on Campus, Chaplaincy and Affiliated Congregations, Religious Cultural Organizations on campus
- Financial Wellness Resources on Campus
- Academic/Intellectual Wellness Resources on Campus
If you have any questions about these workshops, resources or have other feedback to share, please email Manda Gatto, LCSW, Assistant Director of Community Based Services at Rutgers Student Health - Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Program and Psychiatric Services (CAPS): manda.gatto@rutgers.edu.
Thank you!