UCI LIfe Resources

If you are having an emergency:

Call or text 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 9-8-8
Call UCI Campus Police at (949) 824-5223 or UCI Public Safety Division at (714) 456-5493
Call 911 or go to your nearest Emergency Room

60-MINUTE LEARNING SEMINARS

Through UCI’s Life Resources Program, departments and teams can request a variety of expert-led TELUS Health learning seminars. All sessions featured in the dropdowns below are available as 60-minute seminars at no additional cost to UCI/UCI Health departments.

Looking for a more interactive or customized learning experience? TELUS Health also offers workshops, fireside chats, and other learning formats for an additional fee. See the full TELUS Health Learning Catalogue for additional options.

Click on any of the topics below to view available seminars.

Request a Seminar

Interested in bringing one of these sessions to your team or department? Contact wellness@hs.uci.edu to discuss your needs and request a TELUS Health learning seminar.

Note that requests must be received at least 30 days in advance of the requested training date.

Topics and availability are subject to TELUS Health facilitator availability and scheduling requirements.

NO-COST SEMINARS

Becoming a Self-Starter
Explore the qualities of a self-starter and strategies for building motivation, resilience, a growth mindset, and sustainable habits without burning out.

Behavioral Science of Excellent Customer Experience
Learn how behavioral science, communication, empathy, and an understanding of human motivation can help create more positive and meaningful customer experiences.

Cross-Cultural Communication
Develop greater awareness of cultural differences and learn strategies for communicating respectfully and effectively across diverse backgrounds.

Confident Public Speaking Skills
Build confidence, reduce speaking anxiety, and strengthen your ability to deliver engaging, impactful presentations to diverse audiences.

De-Escalation Skills: Managing Aggression in the Workplace
Explore what drives aggressive behavior and learn communication, emotional regulation, boundary-setting, and de-escalation strategies for challenging interactions.

Discovering Unconscious Bias
Explore how unconscious biases can influence workplace perceptions, interactions, and decisions, and learn strategies to challenge assumptions and promote inclusion.

Effective Communication
Strengthen verbal, nonverbal, and written communication skills, with an emphasis on active listening, clarity, empathy, adaptability, and reducing misunderstandings.

Embracing Change
Understand common emotional responses to change and learn practical strategies for managing uncertainty, building resilience, and adapting constructively.

Planning Your Professional Growth
Use practical tools to develop a career vision, set meaningful goals, identify strengths and resources, and create an actionable plan for professional growth.

Responding to Bullying and Harassment
Learn to recognize workplace bullying and harassment, understand their impact, explore the role of bystanders, and identify constructive ways to respond.

Supporting Colleagues Through Difficult Times
Learn how to recognize signs of distress, listen effectively, communicate compassionately, and provide appropriate support to colleagues navigating difficult experiences.

Understanding Microaggressions
Explore how subtle interactions can affect workplace inclusion and psychological safety and learn practical strategies for recognizing and responding to microaggressions.

Virtual Presentation Mastery
Build confidence and engagement when presenting online by strengthening your virtual presence, communication, audience engagement, and Q&A skills.

Work Smart, Achieve More
Learn practical approaches to prioritization, time management, delegation, workload boundaries, and creating a more organized and productive workday.

Developing a Growth Mindset
Learn how to shift from fixed to growth-oriented thinking, approach challenges as opportunities for learning, and build greater adaptability and resilience.

Fostering a Sense of Belonging
Explore the importance of workplace belonging and learn practical strategies for building authentic connections and creating more inclusive environments.

Giving and Receiving Feedback
Explore how to approach feedback with a growth mindset and learn practical strategies for giving and receiving feedback constructively.

Recognition in the Workplace
Explore the impact of meaningful recognition on motivation, engagement, and morale and learn ways to build appreciation into everyday workplace interactions.

Basic Leadership Skills for Everyone in Every Job
Explore foundational leadership behaviors anyone can use, including clear communication, initiative, trust-building, and supporting others to achieve results.

Balance Not Burnout
Learn to recognize the causes, risk factors, and signs of burnout and explore practical strategies for managing stress, building resilience, and protecting wellbeing.

Discovering the Power of Self-Awareness
Explore how greater self-awareness can strengthen decision-making, relationships, emotional intelligence, resilience, and personal growth.

Foundations of Wellbeing: Building Resilience and Balance for Everyone
Explore the interconnected elements of mental, physical, financial, and social wellbeing and practical strategies for creating greater balance and resilience.

Life Beyond Digital Devices
Explore the impact of constant connectivity and learn practical ways to set healthier digital boundaries, unplug, and restore work-life balance.

Overcome Imposter Syndrome
Learn to recognize imposter feelings and self-doubt, challenge the inner critic, acknowledge accomplishments, and build greater confidence.

Self-Care Toolkit
Take a holistic look at your wellbeing and explore practical strategies for building a sustainable self-care routine that supports energy, resilience, and balance.

Setting Healthy Boundaries
Learn practical strategies for prioritizing responsibilities, communicating expectations, saying no when needed, and creating healthier boundaries between work and life.

Tackling Loneliness
Explore the emotional and social dimensions of loneliness and learn strategies for reducing isolation and building meaningful, supportive connections.

Healthy Living Strategies for Unsociable Shifts
Discover practical strategies for protecting sleep, energy, mental health, relationships, and healthy routines while working evenings, nights, or rotating shifts.

Calming the Anxious Mind
Build a better understanding of anxiety and learn practical tools for identifying triggers, managing anxious thoughts, reducing stress, and strengthening emotional resilience.

Creating a Culture of Support: Suicide Prevention in the Workplace
Build awareness of suicide and self-harm, risk and protective factors, stigma, supportive communication, crisis response, and appropriate resources.

Creating a Resilient Mindset
Explore how vulnerability, adversity, beliefs, and perceptions influence resilience and learn strategies for approaching challenges with greater flexibility and strength.

Demystifying Counseling
Learn what to expect from counseling, explore common therapeutic approaches, address myths and stigma, and understand how to find support that fits your needs.

Effective Stress Management
Understand how stress affects the mind and body, identify personal stress triggers, and learn practical strategies for responding to pressure more effectively.

Healthy Mind Toolkit
Take a proactive approach to mental wellbeing with practical strategies for managing stress, navigating adversity, strengthening resilience, and supporting long-term psychological health.

Staying Optimistic
Explore patterns that contribute to negative thinking and learn practical techniques for developing more balanced, constructive, and resilient thought patterns.

Understanding Emotional Triggers
Learn to identify emotional triggers, understand patterns in your reactions, manage emotionally charged situations, and respond to others with greater empathy.

Mental Health – Recognize and Respond
Build mental health awareness, learn to recognize signs that someone may be struggling, and develop skills for having supportive conversations and connecting others with help.

Balancing Work and Life
Identify common barriers to work-life balance and learn practical strategies for setting boundaries, managing commitments, and building habits that support sustainable wellbeing.

Building Confidence in Sharing Mental Health Experiences
Explore barriers to talking about mental health and learn practical communication strategies for sharing your experience and seeking appropriate support.

Relaxation Techniques
Learn evidence-based relaxation techniques that can be used in real time and develop a personalized routine for supporting physical relaxation and mental clarity.

Seasonal Stress
Explore how seasonal changes and holiday demands can affect energy and wellbeing and learn practical strategies for managing stress and maintaining resilience.

Successful Transition to Retirement
Explore the emotional and lifestyle dimensions of retirement and begin planning for a fulfilling transition across areas such as time, relationships, health, and personal goals.

Understanding Your Mental Health: From Awareness to Action
Learn to recognize indicators of positive and declining mental health and explore evidence-based habits, resources, and support strategies that promote wellbeing.

Setting and Achieving Your Goals
Learn proven approaches to setting clear, meaningful goals, measuring progress, and creating a practical plan for following through.

Understanding Loss and Moving Beyond
Explore the grieving process across different types of loss and learn proactive strategies for healing, adapting to change, and rebuilding with resilience.

Cultivating Wellbeing in the Context of Crisis and Media Exposure
Explore how crisis-related news and media overload can affect wellbeing and learn practical strategies for setting boundaries, managing stress, and staying grounded.

Breaking Free: Strategies for Overcoming Modern Tobacco and Vaping Challenges
Explore the psychological and social factors that sustain tobacco and vaping habits and practical strategies that can support lasting behavior change.

Eat Well. Move More. Sleep Better.
Learn practical strategies for eating for energy, incorporating more movement, overcoming barriers to healthy habits, and improving sleep and recovery.

Mastering Sleep for Health and Focus
Explore the role of sleep in physical and mental wellbeing and learn practical strategies for improving sleep quality, recovery, energy, and focus.

Men's Health Matters
Explore important dimensions of men's physical and mental wellbeing and practical strategies for supporting healthier habits and overall quality of life.

Menopause 101
Build awareness of menopause, its potential physical and psychological impacts, and practical ways to support wellbeing during this life stage.

Wellbeing for Women
Explore the unique wellbeing challenges women may experience across multiple roles and learn practical strategies for prioritizing physical and mental health.

Healthy Active Living
Explore practical ways to incorporate movement into everyday routines to support long-term health, strength, stamina, and quality of life.

Caring for You While Caring for Others
Explore the challenges of caregiving and learn strategies for protecting your own health, energy, resilience, and wellbeing while supporting others.

Changing Relationships: You and Your Aging Parents
Explore the changing dynamics that can arise as parents age and learn strategies for navigating shifting roles, expectations, emotions, and responsibilities.

Children and the Media
Learn strategies for helping children develop healthy media habits, think critically about what they consume, and navigate the digital world more safely.

Parental and Caregiver Leave – A Smooth Transition
Explore strategies for navigating parental or caregiver leave and managing the personal and professional changes associated with leaving and returning to work.

Supporting Your Child's Mental Health
Build awareness of children's mental health and learn practical ways to recognize concerns, communicate supportively, and help children access appropriate resources.

Thriving as a Parent and Caregiver
Learn practical strategies for managing stress, setting boundaries, supporting sleep and wellbeing, maintaining relationships, and balancing competing responsibilities.

Raising Resilient Children
Explore the importance of resilience and learn strategies for helping children build coping skills, confidence, adaptability, and emotional strength.

Positive Parenting
Explore a positive parenting approach focused on connection, consistency, guidance, and encouragement rather than punishment.

Finding Digital Balance: Strengthening Real-Life Connections
Explore how technology can affect relationships and learn practical strategies for creating healthier digital habits while strengthening real-life connections.

Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships: Gaslighting, Toxic Dynamics, and Love-Bombing
Learn to recognize potentially harmful relationship patterns and explore strategies for protecting your wellbeing and establishing healthier dynamics.

Sandwich Generation: Working, Caring for Children, and Caring for Aging Parents
Explore the unique pressures of simultaneously working and caring for children and aging parents, with strategies for reducing stress and protecting wellbeing.

Financially Smart Parenting
Learn practical ways to teach children about money and help them build healthy financial habits, confidence, and decision-making skills.

Money on My Mind: Dealing With Anxiety
Explore the connection between financial concerns and anxiety and learn practical strategies for managing financial stress with greater confidence.

Unlock the Secret to Financial Wellbeing
Explore practical steps for taking greater control of your finances and building habits that support financial stability and wellbeing.

Achieving Financial Stability
Learn strategies for balancing current financial needs with future goals and building greater security and confidence in your financial decisions.

Foundations of Financial Wellbeing
Build confidence with essential financial concepts including budgeting, saving, debt, credit, goal-setting, and everyday money management.

Investing Basics: Building Confidence in Your Financial Future
Learn foundational investing concepts and practical first steps for making more informed decisions about your financial future.

Retirement Planning and Pension
Explore key considerations for retirement planning and learn practical steps for preparing financially for the future.

Mindfulness
Learn foundational mindfulness concepts and experience guided practices that can help build calm, focus, emotional resilience, and greater presence in everyday life.

Inclusion Matters
Explore inclusion as a mindset and learn practical strategies for fostering greater belonging, respect, and participation in the workplace.

Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Build foundational understanding of neurodiversity and explore practical strategies that support clearer communication, inclusion, and equitable participation at work.

Championing Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Designed for managers, this session explores the strengths and needs of neurodivergent employees and strategies for creating more inclusive and supportive teams.

Employee Engagement: Building and Maintaining an Engaged Workforce
Explore the factors that influence employee engagement and practical strategies for strengthening communication, recognition, inclusion, motivation, and connection.

Engaging a Multi-Generational Workforce
Explore generational differences in values, communication, and work preferences and learn strategies for engaging and leading employees across generations.

Getting Comfortable With Conflict: A Leadership Guide
Understand how workplace conflict develops and learn practical strategies for adapting your conflict-management approach, strengthening communication, and reaching constructive resolutions.

How to Lead High-Performing Hybrid Teams
Learn strategies for communicating, building trust, supporting wellbeing, and maintaining engagement and collaboration across remote and in-person teams.

Leading Through Crisis
Prepare to lead during critical events by learning strategies for supporting employee wellbeing, communicating effectively, coordinating responses, and meeting immediate team needs.

Navigating Performance Reviews and Feedback
Build confidence in preparing for performance conversations, delivering clear and constructive feedback, navigating difficult discussions, and following up effectively.

People-Centric Leadership
Explore how self-awareness, empathy, emotional intelligence, and compassionate communication can help leaders strengthen relationships, engagement, and team performance.

The Coach Approach to Leadership
Develop coaching-oriented leadership skills including effective listening, powerful questions, empowering feedback, and approaches that support employee growth and independence.

Giving and Receiving Feedback
Learn strategies for delivering constructive feedback, navigating conflict with empathy, building trust, and creating a culture of continuous improvement.

Mental Health – Recognize and Respond
Designed for managers, this session builds skills for recognizing signs of mental health concerns, initiating supportive conversations, and leading teams through periods of high stress.

Nurturing a Growth Mindset in Your Team
Learn how leaders can encourage adaptability, continuous learning, constructive feedback, collaboration, and a growth-oriented approach to challenges and setbacks.

Supporting Teams in the Age of AI
Learn how to guide employees through AI-related change, address concerns, communicate opportunities, support skill development, and foster psychological safety.

Supporting Yourself and Your Team in a Changing World
Explore strategies for leading through uncertainty, building resilience, communicating clearly, supporting mental health, and maintaining team connection and performance.

Managing Resistance Through Change
Understand why resistance is a natural response to change and learn communication, planning, and coaching strategies that can support people through transitions.

From Incident to Response: Responding to Critical Incidents in the Workplace
Learn how to recognize critical incidents and distress reactions and explore strategies for rapid response, communication, recovery, and supporting employee wellbeing.

Managing Intra-Team Conflict
Learn to recognize conflict early, distinguish healthy debate from harmful conflict, communicate through difficult situations, and turn disagreements into opportunities for growth.

Psychological Safety 101
Explore what psychological safety is, why it matters, the behaviors that support it, and practical ways to foster trust, openness, and collaboration.

Psychosocial Risks: Introduction for Staff and Managers
Learn to recognize common workplace psychosocial risks—including workload, bullying, poor communication, and lack of support—and explore practical approaches for addressing them.

Psychosocial Risks: Managing in High-Risk Environments
Designed for leaders in higher-risk settings, this session explores psychosocial risks, early signs of stress and burnout, supportive systems, resilience, and psychological safety.

Building Bridges: Collaboration at Work
Explore the key elements of effective teamwork and learn practical relationship-building strategies that strengthen cooperation and collaboration.

Virtual Fatigue
Understand why screen-mediated work can be exhausting and learn practical strategies for reducing virtual fatigue and staying engaged during technology-intensive workdays.

Working With Difficult Customer Behaviors
Explore factors that contribute to challenging customer behavior and learn strategies for managing your reactions, preventing escalation, and communicating professionally.

Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
Understand common causes and styles of workplace conflict and learn a practical approach for resolving disagreements through effective communication and negotiation.

Making Time Work for You
Learn to focus on the actions and priorities you can control, manage interruptions and procrastination, and make overwhelming days more productive.

Running Effective Meetings
Learn practical strategies for planning and facilitating productive meetings, encouraging participation, supporting decision-making, and following up on action items.

Understanding Different Personalities for Better Collaboration
Explore the difference between difficult behavior and difficult people and learn assertive communication strategies for navigating challenging workplace interactions.