Workshops
Below is an outline of the most common workshops we offer throughout the year. Workshop offerings are tailored to the needs of our students and offered in response to demand. Interested in one of these topics? Let us know!
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Note-Taking Strategies
Note-taking strategies focus on incorporating the use of technologies such as the pulse pen, formats for note-taking from text and lecture, and tips for taking notes more effectively.
Preparing for After Graduation
This workshop is designed for Juniors and Seniors who are expecting to graduate within a year. This workshop presents Project IMPACT students with their options post-graduation by reviewing the graduate school application process, tips for entering the workforce, and information on community and campus resources to help them transition.
Study Strategies
Study strategies specifically review techniques to improve study habits. The workshop covers where to start the studying process, techniques for specific disciplines, and studying for certain types of tests.
Test-Taking Strategies & Preparing for Finals
This workshop discusses techniques to help students improve their performance on midterms and finals; it also reviews study strategies and how to approach different types of exam questions.
Time Management & Beating Procrastination
Time management shows students both cutting-edge and traditional tools for managing time, how to approach both long-term and short assignments, as well as daily time management tips and techniques. We also look at why we feel the need to avoid certain tasks while providing students with techniques to beat procrastination.
Discovering You
This workshop is about self-discovery. Students will move through exercises to discover more about their personality types, learning style, and emotional states.
Emotional Endings
Students will explore the emotional side of things coming to an end. As much as graduating is a great accomplishment and occasion for a lot of excitement, it's also a time when we leave behind people and places that mean a lot to us. We often grieve these losses without acknowledging that we're entitled to our emotions.
Interpersonal Relationships
This workshop will explore techniques of effective non-violent communication, "I" statements, being self-revealing, etc. Students will then have the opportunity to brainstorm and practice using these new techniques in real life scenarios—especially relating to group work and conflicts with professors.
Positive Self-Talk
Students will explore and externalize negative, internal messages. We'll make a visual representation of their own personal "meanie" or negative voice. We will then explore counter-arguments to their negative messages, respond to positive messages, determine which messages are effective/ineffective, and be able to successfully "argue" with their own internal "meanie."
Self Advocacy
This crucial workshop presents the topic of self advocacy to Project IMPACT students. Through this workshop, Project IMPACT helps student reflect on the meaning of self advocacy and its historic roots. By reviewing real-life scenarios, it addresses how to successfully work with faculty, staff, and fellow students regarding their disability, utilize campus and community resources, and carry this vital skill into the workforce.
Stress Management & Action Planning
Students will explore how they recognize stress and what their personal stressors are. They will create a visual map of their stress mechanisms and identify opportunities to interrupt or redirect themselves. This will help them establish strategies to deal with transitions and personalized corrective actions.