Maintain Your Wellbeing During Winter Break! This can be a great time to prioritize your own wellbeing. This winter break guide offers tips, resources, local activities, and support services available to help!

Graduate & Postdoc Mental Health & Wellbeing: An Interview with Sherry Turkle (virtual)

Come and hear from one of MIT’s most thought-provoking scholars. Sherry Turkle joins CAPD in an interview to discuss her graduate experience and reflect on how graduate studies have evolved, offer insight on the challenges she’s faced and those our graduate students and postdocs face today, and consider how you can maintain a healthy relationship...

Nine Tips for a Better Semester at MIT

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

This workshop will introduce nine performance strategies and self-coaching techniques to help manage your time, energy, workload, and motivation throughout the semester. The workshop is geared toward the student semester-long experience, but employees may find the material useful for managing workload. All are welcome to attend. Register for this workshop series. Other workshops in this...

Free

Productivity and Efficiency Coaching

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

This coaching workshop will identify evidence-based strategies to maintain productivity and efficiency so you can make the most of your time this semester. The workshop is geared toward the student semester-long experience, but employees may find the material useful for managing workload. All are welcome to attend. Register for this workshop series. Other workshops in...

Free

Motivation and Focus Coaching

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

This coaching workshop will help participants to learn how to tap into feelings of motivation and decrease distraction throughout the semester. The workshop is geared toward the student semester-long experience, but employees may find the material useful for managing workload. All are welcome to attend. Register for this workshop series. Other workshops in this Performance...

Free

Paint and Sip with VPR

Wellbeing Lab 84 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA, United States

In honor of Dating Violence Awareness Month, join the Office of Violence Prevention & Response (VPR) in the Wellbeing Lab for free apple cider, dinner, a live DJ, and guided painting with At Peace Arts on October 30th at 7:00 PM! We hope this can be a night of community, peace, allyship, and healing for...

Free

The MIT Meditation Vacation

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

Kick off your winter break with The MIT Meditation Vacation. Learn guided meditation, relaxation, stretches, and breathing practices to calm mind and body. All experience levels welcome. Date: Friday, December 20 Time: 12–12:45 p.m. Location: Zoom

Free

Event Series Mindfulness Mini-Course

Mindfulness Mini-Course

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

Learn about and practice mindfulness meditation, breathing techniques, stretches, relaxation practices, and skills for daily life to calm mind and body. All experience levels welcome. Feel free to register even if you are not able to attend all three sessions. Classes run 4-4:45 p.m.

Free
Event Series Mindfulness Mini-Course

Mindfulness Mini-Course

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

Learn about and practice mindfulness meditation, breathing techniques, stretches, relaxation practices, and skills for daily life to calm mind and body. All experience levels welcome. Feel free to register even if you are not able to attend all three sessions. Classes run 4-4:45 p.m.

Free
Event Series Mindfulness Mini-Course

Mindfulness Mini-Course

Zoom Virtual, Cambridge, MA, United States

Learn about and practice mindfulness meditation, breathing techniques, stretches, relaxation practices, and skills for daily life to calm mind and body. All experience levels welcome. Feel free to register even if you are not able to attend all three sessions. Classes run 4-4:45 p.m.

Free

The Gift of Catharsis

Wellbeing Lab 84 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA, United States

Ashira Ali Darwish is a motivational speaker from Palestine who founded Catharsis holistic healing, a trauma therapy project. She will be leading a discussion and guided practice of somatic and sufi healing modalities for continuous and complex trauma for MIT students. This active meditation will help you release tension and anxiety in the body. Dinner...

Free

Stratton Lecture: The Epidemic of Loneliness

Join us for the 2025 Stratton Lecture as we delve into the growing epidemic of loneliness in modern society. Despite unprecedented digital connectivity, we experience a sense of isolation, with profound impacts on mental and physical health. We’ll explore the societal factors contributing to this phenomenon, the consequences for well-being, and strategies to rebuild authentic...

Free

Charting Your Course: Self-Assessment for Academic and Personal Growth

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Discover how self-reflection can help you better understand your strengths, priorities, and goals during this period of life. This workshop will guide you in turning insights into actionable steps to support your growth and success, both now and in the future. This workshop is a part of the Undergraduate Advising Centers Student Success Workshop series.

Free