Our team is working hard to provide you with exciting, action-packed events to make you feel part of the Gee-Gees community. Check out the calendar of events below for more info!
Use your artistic talents to express and reflect your experience with mental health.
We invite you to express yourself through your preferred artistic medium (photography, drawing, poetry, painting, music, etc.) to creatively showcase your experience with that mental health theme.
Do you want to apply for scholarships, but don’t know where to start? Join us for an in-depth conference on applying for scholarships and bursaries, hosted by three high-achieving scholars who have received accolades including the coveted Vanier scholarship.
This event is organized as a part of Black Student's Wellness Month.
Fimo invites participants to turn their gaze inward, embrace stillness and make the necessary changes to live a happier, healthier and more peaceful life.
This event is organized as a part of Black Student's Wellness Month.
Dance your heart out and follow along to the sound of the music as Justine guides you through a Zumba routine. This workout is sure to get your heart pumping. No equipment needed.
Do you feel that your skin colour brings certain challenges that make it difficult for you to cope?
This group is for uOttawa students who self-identify as women and belong to Black communities. It will be facilitated by a racialized psychotherapist who self-identifies as a woman. Each session will last one hour.
Work your abs, glutes, and thighs in this targeted training! Get your body moving with an equipment free workout and feel accomplished once you've completed the exercises!
Even though therapy dog teams are practicing physical distancing and have stopped their weekly visits to campus, that doesn’t mean you can’t still “hang out” with some of them.
Join us for special "virtual" pet therapy sessions, every Friday at 11:00 a.m.
Follow along with Certified Personal Trainer Sarv as she leads you through an equipment free workout! Focus on bodyweight exercises, mobility, and more to get your body moving and build your strength! You’ll learn correct form and the “why” behind the movements!
Join Jules for a full-body circuit that you can do from the comfort of your living room! Please have an object nearby that you can use to add some weight to your workout. We recommend a backpack filled with some textbooks or rice bags but feel free to get creative! Jules will help you start your week off right with some interval training that is sure to get you sweating.
Do you feel that your skin colour brings certain challenges that make it difficult for you to cope?
This group is for uOttawa students who self-identify as women and belong to Black communities. It will be facilitated by a racialized psychotherapist who self-identifies as a woman. Each session will last one hour.
Enter the virtual escape room, follow the clues and get out!
Successfully unlock all the rooms to be entered for the grand prize of a $100 Campus Store gift card. Four participation prizes of $25 gift cards will also be drawn for each escape room.
Even though therapy dog teams are practicing physical distancing and have stopped their weekly visits to campus, that doesn’t mean you can’t still “hang out” with some of them.
Join us for special "virtual" pet therapy sessions, every Friday at 11:00 a.m.
Do you feel that your skin colour brings certain challenges that make it difficult for you to cope?
This group is for uOttawa students who self-identify as men and belong to Black communities. It will be facilitated by a racialized psychotherapist who self-identifies as a man. Each session will last one hour.
Follow along with Certified Personal Trainer Sarv as she leads you through an equipment free workout! Focus on bodyweight exercises, mobility, and more to get your body moving and build your strength!
Join us for a paradigm-shifting conference on leadership for Black students, with our keynote speaker Dr. Eliane Ubalijoro. Dr. Ubalijoro is the founder and executive director of C.L.E.A.R. International Development Inc., and an esteemed professor at McGill University.
This event is organized as a part of Black Student's Wellness Month.
Work your abs, glutes, and thighs in this targeted training! Get your body moving with an equipment free workout and feel accomplished once you've completed the exercises!
