Category: EWC Groups

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Dissertation Support Group for Women

Dissertation Support Group for Women

Are you writing a dissertation?

Meet with other women who are writing dissertations and understand the particular challenges women face. Set realistic goals, offer and receive support, encouragement and suggestions to help meet your goals.

Graduate Women’s Network & Everywoman’s Center Counseling Services are
sponsoring a free dissertation support group for women,

Women in Academia: Surviving the Dissertation
The group will be facilitated by Pamela Plumer, Ph.D who completed her doctorate at UMass.

Tuesday Evenings 7:00-8:30 — Spring Semester 2012 — First Meeting in February.

Registration Begins January, 2012. Pre-group meeting with the facilitator is required.

For more information and to register call:

Susan Mahler
EWC Counseling Services
413-545-1276

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Mindfulness and Mood: Empowerment Skills for Women (EWC/GWN)

Ruled by Anxiety ???

MINDFULNESS AND MOOD: EMPOWERMENT SKILLS FOR WOMEN

Reduce anxiety and stress, improve mood, improve relationships and gain greater emotional balance.

Learn Mindfulness Meditation and other skills by registering for this Free Five Session Workshop Series!

Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 p.m., beginning October 18, 2011
Open to UMass, Five College and community women.

Registration required.  Registration begins September 2011.

This workshop is fills quickly so please register as soon as possible if you are interested!
Call Everywoman’s Center Counseling Services at  577- 0077.

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BETTER LOVE: How to get it and How to give it in Relationships

Free Workshop Series open to UMass and Five College Undergrad and Grad Women

BETTER LOVE: How to get it and How to give it in Relationships

This five session workshop series will help women to work on communication, assertiveness, keeping the romance alive, recognizing and changing negative patterns, and getting more of what they need in a partnership. We will focus on the unique issues facing women and will offer skills for women to empower themselves in their relationships. ALL undergraduate and graduate women who have been in a relationship in the past, as well as those who are currently in a relationship are invited to participate.

Spring Semester, 2011  Five Tuesday evenings,  5:30-7pm.
For start date and to Register
Call Everywoman’s Center Counseling Services 577-0077

Sponsored by, Everywoman’s Center, Center for Counseling and Psychological Health & Graduate Women’s Network at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Weekly Meditation and Deep Relaxation

Get Ready, Get Set, Relax…..

Weekly Meditation and Deep Relaxation

MOST MONDAYS, 4-5, Spring Semester 2011 – Room 203 New Africa House, UMass

Feb 7, 14 ~ March 7, 14, 21, 28 ~ April 4, 11, 25
Free and open to all.

For more information, call Everywoman’s Center Counseling Services at 577- 0077.
Sponsored by Everywoman’s Center & Graduate Women’s Network at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Mindfulness and Mood: Empowerment Skills for Women

Ruled by Your Anxiety?

Mindfulness and Mood: Empowerment Skills for Women

We will focus on the unique stresses facing women and will offer skills that will help women to reduce anxiety, improve mood , strengthen relationships, relax your body, quiet your mind and gain greater emotional balance.

Five Mondays, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Spring Semester, 2011. Start date to be determined   Registration is required.
Free and open to UMass and Five College Students and community women.
To register or for more information, call Everywoman’s Center Counseling Services at 577- 0077.
Sponsored by Everywoman’s Center & Graduate Women’s Network at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Where’s Love 101?: Creating and Sustaining Healthy Relationships

“Where’s Love 101?: Creating and Sustaining Healthy Relationships”
Wednesday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m.
UMass Campus Center, Room 917

This unique gathering will feature a panel discussion with couples of different ages, races, and sexual orientations who have been together from a few years to decades, as well as experts who will address a broad range of issues related to creating and sustaining healthy relationships.

Topics will include:
-Physical health, values, resolving conflict, fidelity expectations, sex
-Money, race, class, gender, anti-LGBT prejudice, religion
-Meeting each other’s families, alcohol and drugs, your self-esteem
-Staying together in a transitory environment
-When is it better to choose to be on your own?

With refreshments and door prizes, this promises to be a lively, informative and fun evening! Free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact the Women of Color Leadership Network: (413) 545-1671.