2025 Session Descriptions

This workshop offers practical strategies for balancing professional and academic commitments. It will include an introduction, an interactive presentation on time management, stress management, and the significance of support systems.

Mentorship is a buzzword in our field as we support students, but we often forget about how mentorship can support our colleagues and teams. We often get caught thinking mentorship takes one form – the experienced helping someone new in the profession – but peer-to-peer can just as powerful if not more.

Explore how high-performance athletic team principles can transform cross-departmental collaboration at WashU. In this interactive 60-minute session, participants will discover the F.I.T. methods to Focus on strengths, Improve connections, Train collaboratively to break down silos and build stronger professional relationships.

This workshop explores how cultivating authentic spaces of belonging can help students struggling with perfectionism. Participants will understand the interconnected nature of belonging, perfectionism and mental health in student development, particularly in high-achieving environments.

Participants will learn how affirmations can counter imposter syndrome, reduce stress, and enhance adaptability. They will then explore how blackout poetry helps individuals reinterpret existing narratives by serving as a metaphor for navigating professional structures and challenges.

This session explores how WashU is advancing campus-wide inclusion through a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework and strategic integration of assistive technology.

This workshop will teach participants a practical framework for crafting a personal brand, while aligning those concepts with the marketing and communications practices carried out on behalf of the division.

During this session you will learn more about the Campus Life Event Management and Operations Team and tools and resources to navigate campus event planning and programming.

This will be a fun, interactive look at common themes that show up in therapy on a college campus and skills the Center for Counseling & Psychological Services teach their clients. This will help attendees increase their understanding in emerging adult mental health, and learn how these ideas might impact and change their own lives.

Participants will be shown a Ted Talk video. From the video, small group discussions will be led with a set of guided questions that are answered before sharing as a large group. Once all groups have presented, participants will create a warning system/action plan about how to tackle defensiveness when they recognize it.

Creating and maintaining a cohesive organizational culture is challenging. Discrepancies in onboarding experiences and communication gaps can lead to disengagement among team members. This session will explore a strategic approach to instilling a consistent and inclusive culture.

In this traditional workshop and roundtable discussion, co-presenters Carynn Smith and Jasmine James-Milford will give a brief overview of their department, Campus Life, what they do within the Programming & Campus Vibrancy unit, how they strengthen brand identity.