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Spring 2025

 


Leveraging Your Emotions to Fuel Drive and Purpose

Tuesday, April 1st from 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Location: Commerce St. Building, Rm. C-100
Woman yoga stretching on the deck at sunrise.Speaker: Dr. Laura Mitchell

Do you often react before you think, or say things you later regret? Emotional Intelligence is learning how to navigate challenging emotions within seconds; from being a reaction to a response. Do you want to react and say things that might hurt or that you regret, or do you want to respond to those emotions appropriately?
In this hands-on workshop, we will explore how to become self-aware in order to self-manage our emotions to fuel our purpose and goals.

During this time, we will also explore where we find those emotions in our bodies through an innovative yoga practice. As we move through the workshop, we will complete yoga like movements. We will explore where the emotions are in our bodies and how we can shift the emotions to work for us rather than against us.

Dr. Laura Mitchell

Dr. Laura Mitchell


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Red/Blue Workshop

Friday, April 4th from 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: UHD Welcome Center, Milam/Travis rooms
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Tired of all the vitriol in our politics? What happened to civility? How can we speak to one another respectfully even when we disagree? It starts with YOU! The Red/Blue workshop will bring together a small, evenly divided group of people who identify as conservatives (Reds) and liberals (Blues) for a series of fun, and interesting exercises designed to help participants clarify disagreements, reduce stereotyped thinking, and discover common values. To register to participate as a red, blue, or observer, please click here:

    • Learn about the experiences, feelings, and beliefs of those on the other side of the political divide.
    • Discover areas of commonality in addition to differences.
    • Gain insights that might be helpful to others in helping to depolarize our community and the nation.

       

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For more information contact Steven Villano, director of the Center for Public Service and Community Research at villanos@uhd.edu.