Mental Health Day

Empowering minds, embracing wellness

Mental Health Day 2024 is Wednesday, October 30. This year's theme is "Empowering minds, embracing wellness." Mental Health Day presents an opportunity for Corsairs to take a break, have some fun, and make time for your mental wellbeing.

Students laughing while enjoying the Barn Babies at Woodland Commons

There are no classes on Mental Health Day. Instead, you are invited to participate in a wide variety of fun and relaxing activities, including meditation, aromatherapy, trail walks, and watercolor painting. There will also be Corsair favorites like Barn Babies, a Rage Room, and more! Finish the day with a Halloween movie night or the Haunted Walkthrough with University Police!

Interested in volunteering for one or more of the events? Please sign up on Corsair Engage.

See below for a full schedule of the day's events.

Time	Activity	Location
11am-1pm	Guided tour of Labyrinth & meditation: Join Deacon Frank Lucca, Kari Mofford & Elizabeth Plante as we explore our Labyrinth which is designed for a journey of reflection, contemplation and stress relief	Labyrinth next to Unity Plaza and LARTS
11am-3pm	Barn Babies: Everyone loves the Barn Babies. Come and engage with bunnies, chicks, ducklings, goats, lambs, pot-bellied pig, kittens and puppies. Pet therapy is the best therapy ever!	The Grove Drum area
11am-2:45pm	Unity House Massages (must sign up): Sign up for a 15 minute massage to relax your mind, body and spirit.	The Frederick Douglass Unity House
11:30am-1pm	Make your own Zen Garden: A zen garden is a great way to reduce your stress and to take your mind off of your compounding responsibilities. We’ll supply the essentials. All you must do is show up and be prepared to have fun making a beautiful Zen Garden that will positively contribute to reducing your stress.	Woodlands Patio
11am-5pm	Relaxation station - Sleep wellness: Come enjoy a quiet nap, learn about sleep hygiene or what it means to have mindful rest. Make sure to bring your own pillows, blankets, or whatever you need to rest.	Woodlands
11am-5pm	Relaxation station - A Moment of mindfulness: Come experience different ways to relax your mind, through guided imagery, hand massages and mindful meditation.	Woodlands
12pm-12:30pm	Meditation with Nicholas Oldenzki, Psy.D, Counseling Center: Explore the practice of meditation to reduce the areas of anxiety, chronic pain, depression, heart disease and high blood pressure. Explore the practice of meditation to reduce the areas of anxiety, chronic pain, depression, heart disease and high blood pressure.	Zoom link to be provided
12pm-2pm	Mental Health Day Kick-off: Volunteers will be handing out the scheduled activities, goodies and directing people to the day’s activities.	The MacLean Campus Center Patio/West Lawn
12pm-4pm	Recreation stations: Come enjoy some hands-on activities to help decompress your mind as we gear up for the remainder of the semester Stations include: Tie-dye Watercolor painting Jewelry making Wellness checks Aromatherapy	West Lawn
1pm-3pm	Halloween cookie decorating: Come celebrate Halloween and enjoy decorating a cookie with our dining staff.	The Grove 2nd Floor
1pm-3pm	Novelty with a cop: Come Meet some of our favorite University Police Officers and learn more about the various ways they support our community.	The Grove 2nd Floor
1pm-5pm	Rage Room: Join the House of Rage and come show us your best swing, throw or smash as you take the edge off and destress in a judgement free zone.	West Lawn
2pm-3pm	Sound bath: Join us for a meditative and therapeutic experience of sounds and vibrations produced by instruments that help your mind and body relax and enter a deep state of meditation.	The Marketplace
3pm-5pm	Drum circle: Drumming is a spiritual path to the soul. Come learn drum and relieve stress in our drum circle with our djembe master. Twenty drums will be ready for you.	Unity Plaza, behind FDUH
3:30pm-5pm	LGBTQIA-2S+ support group: Please join us and your classmates to spend time exploring topics of queerness in a space that is shared, safe and open to your whole self.	Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality office (2nd floor of Campus Center)
4pm	Forest bath & trail clearing: Serve your Community and clean up the walking trails with Sustainability and Leduc Center for Civic Engagement. Help clear our historic campus trails and learn about the health benefits of being in nature.	Meet on 2nd floor of Grove
4pm-6pm	Worship in song: Come join us as we relax and focus on our spiritual health as we worship in song!	West lawn
7pm (Doors open at 6:30pm)	Halloween movie night: What better way to end a great day of Mental Health than with the original classic movie Beetlejuice? Bring your friends and enjoy movie snacks and fresh popcorn for this great event. Get your free tickets!	Auditorium
8pm-9:30pm	Haunted walkthrough: Come enjoy a Haunted Walkthrough sponsored University Police. Prepare to be amazed and frightened.	CVPA (1st floor, enter through the door closest to the quad)