✨ Student Mental Health Workshops Semester 2 25/26✨
Hey St Andrews students – Undergraduate and Postgraduate (Taught & Research)! 😎 Ready to learn about yourself, boost your wellbeing, and pick up tools for life at university and beyond? Check out our upcoming workshops—perfect for reflection, growth, and connection. 📆
From Grief to Growth: Loss, Change, and What Comes After🌱
Change and loss come in many forms, and they can deeply shape us. This small group workshop explores grief—whether due to bereavement or other life transitions—and offers space to reflect, myth-bust misconceptions, and consider what healing looks like for you.
💡You’re welcome to share or simply listen; there’s no expectation to tell your story.
📅 Monday 25 March
🕔 17:00–18:15
💻 Online via Teams
Facilitators: Fiona & Cindy
Take time for reflection, learning, and gentle growth. 🌟
Reduce Digital Distraction Workshop 🎯
Are digital distractions stealing your time? Save 1.5+ hours each day with research-backed tools to reduce digital distraction.
Many of us struggle to have a happy, healthy relationship with our digital devices. For example, constant notifications might be interrupting our workflow, or 2-Factor Authentication might distract us when we log on to institutional services.
The ReDD Workshop introduces actionable steps to take control of your digital life. In the workshop, you will:
- reflect on your relationship with digital devices & identify problem areas
- explore a curated set of “digital focus tools” for managing distraction
- get in-workshop support to implement chosen tools on your own devices.
ReDD is based on rigorous, award-winning research (redd-project.org/research), and won a 2024 MPLS Impact Award at the University of Oxford.
Sign up: reddfocus.org/st-andrews
📅 Tuesday 24 February
🕔 17:00–19:00
🏫 In-person
Facilitators: Anita & Paul
Build insight and confidence in how you connect with others! 🌟
Neurodiverse & Curious: A Workshop for Self-Exploration 🧩
Curious about neurodiversity and wondering if it applies to you? This reflective online workshop introduces key concepts, explores lived experiences, and considers ways to support your thriving. Participation can be active or passive depending on comfort level.
📅 Monday 9 March
🕔 16:00–17:00
💻 Online via Teams
Facilitators: Kate & Fiona
Understand yourself better and explore what you need to thrive! 🌟
Autism Group 🧩
The Disability Team facilitates an autism group for students to meet peers, socialise, share experiences, and receive information about University life. The group runs both online and in-person, and is open to all students (UG and PG) who have a diagnosis of autism, are awaiting assessment, or identify as autistic. Attendance is drop-in format.
Full timetable & details
Facilitators: Kate, Katie, Stephanie and Kim
Connect, share, and explore your experiences in a supportive environment—everyone is welcome!
Deadline & Exam Stress Workshop (1) 📚
Deadlines and exams can crank up anxiety fast. This one-hour workshop explores how stress affects your mind and body and offers practical tools to stay calm, focused, and productive during peak pressure.
📅 Tuesday 10 March
🕔 17:00–18:00
🔄 Hybrid (Online + In-person)
Facilitators: Kirsten & Anita
Turn stress into strategy—don’t let deadlines control you! 🌟
Perfectionism – Friend or Foe?– 💭
Perfectionism can motivate excellence—but it can also drain energy, harm wellbeing, and undermine confidence. This reflective session explores the impact of perfectionism and ways to develop a healthier balance.
📅 Wednesday 11 March
🕔 17:00–18:00
💻 Online
Facilitators: Fiona & Linda
Learn how to aim high without burning out! 🌟
Imposter Syndrome (UG & PGT) 💡
Ever feel like you don’t deserve to be here? This workshop explores imposter feelings, where they come from, and how to challenge unhelpful internal narratives. Includes opportunities for reflection and shared strategies.
📅 Thursday 12 March
🕔 17:00–18:00
💻 Online via Teams
Facilitators: Aileen & Meha
Build confidence and own your achievements! 🌟
Building Boundaries; Building Relationships – learning to set limits without losing connection🤝
Relationships can be messy, wonderful, confounding and confusing! In this workshop we’ll consider where and why they confound us and look at ways to set healthy boundaries, manage difficult emotions, and understand our individual patterns of relating. We’ll look at practical tools to manage healthy boundaries and to repair ruptures when things go wrong so you can approach relationships with greater confidence and clarity. Although there will be scope for some interaction in this session there is no expectation that you will share or go into any detail about what brings you to this group.
📅 Monday 17 March
🕔 16:00–17:00
💻 Online via Teams
Facilitators: Lindsay & Fiona
Improve how you connect, communicate, and collaborate! 🌟
Becoming a Better Procrastinator ⏳
Procrastination isn’t about laziness—it’s often about overwhelm, perfectionism, or uncertainty. This workshop explores why we get stuck and offers practical strategies to regain momentum and self-compassion.
It includes:
• Understanding procrastination & motivation
• Overcoming inertia & overwhelm
• Maintaining momentum
• Creating an action plan
📅 Monday 24 March
🕔 17:00–18:15
💻 Online
Facilitators: Lindsay & Moira
Break the cycle and reclaim your time! 🌟
Imposter Syndrome (PGR)📆
Designed for postgraduate researchers, this workshop explores the unique pressures of research environments, perfectionism, and comparison. Strategies for coping and confidence-building will be shared.
📅 Thursday 19 March
🕔 17:00–18:00
💻 Online via Teams
Facilitators: Aileen & Meha
Feel more grounded and secure in your research journey! 🌟
Deadline & Exam Stress Workshop (2) 📚
Missed the first session, or want a refresher? This repeat workshop offers the same insights and tools for exam season.
📅 Tuesday 21 April
🕔 17:00–18:00
🔄 Hybrid (Online + In-person)
Facilitators: Kirsten & Anita
Stay calm, focused, and exam-ready! 🌟