Wellbeing, Academic, and Peer Coaching

Through academic coaching, students can polish study skills and learn to manage their time in order to apply those skills effectively. While academic coaching is helpful to students who are experiencing academic difficulties, it is also beneficial to anyone who wishes to enhance their academic effectiveness. In addition to the academic coaching topics highlighted above, we also support students around:

• Evidence-based learning strategies and implementation
• Dissertation block coaching
• Time management and organizational/study skills
• Test preparation
• Writing papers and reports
• Stress and anxiety due to academic issues
• Structure and accountability for long-term independent projects

Please bring relevant schoolwork, schedules, books, and/or planners and calendars to meetings.

AOD coaching is for students looking to make changes in their alcohol/marijuana/or other drug use. This may include:

• Accountability
• Community and Connection with others on campus who are also living a substance-free lifestyle
• Implementing harm reduction strategies
• Supporting focused sobriety time
• Working towards or maintaining recovery

Drop-in Coaching is available to discuss a variety of topics, such as emotional wellbeing, stress management, academic skills, life transitions, self-efficacy, financial wellbeing, social support, relationship building, and personal health. It offers an opportunity for focused problem solving and is a great way to see if coaching is a good fit.

Drop-in Hours

Through wellbeing coaching, students will identify areas of growth, set goals, and develop plans to achieve these goals. Students will receive accountability from their CSW coach and, together, the coach and student will identify any barriers present in achieving goals and make adjustments in order to help the student improve their personal wellbeing. Wellbeing coaching could include any of the following topic areas:

• Coping strategies
• Financial wellbeing
• Finding sense of belonging
• Goal setting
• Improving self-efficacy
• Life transitions (i.e., personal, familial, and/or social changes)
• Managing negative emotions/cultivating positive emotions
• Mindfulness practices
• Personal organization
• Personal Health (i.e., nutrition, hygiene)
• Relationship building/social support
• Sleep habits
• Stress management techniques
• Wellbeing time management (i.e., creating a healthy morning routine, finding time for self-care)

Peer Guides are undergraduate wellbeing coaches and facilitators who provide support and guidance to fellow undergraduate students through individual and group sessions. Support includes:

• Peer-to-peer general wellbeing coaching
• Relationship building
• Self-confidence
• Social adjustment

The Peer Guide Program