Help transform campus mental wellness with the Community Resiliency Model
From: Cook Counseling Center
Cook Counseling Center has begun using the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) to empower the Hokie Nation to improve their own well-being while supporting their wider community. The model teaches in-the-moment body awareness skills that help regulate stress. You can benefit, and you can help!
Join a community supporting mental well-being
Cook Counseling has shared simple skills-based tools to promote mental well-being with varied campus partners and stakeholders:
- 120+ Residential Well-being Student Leaders
- 120+ faculty members
- Advancing Diversity conference participants
- Financial Aid/Bursar’s Office
- Student Engagement and Campus Life
- The Women’s Center
- Schiffert Health
- Rec Sports and Hokie Wellness
- Every member of the Corps of Cadets
- Thousands of students at Gobblerfest, Weeks of Welcome, resource fairs, and wellness workshops
VT News and Cambridge Prisms have highlighted CRM's value in managing stress and fostering resilience.
Quick video lessons
At the Student Affairs YouTube playlist, in a minute or less, you can learn:
- What is CRM? The brain science behind regulating our fight/flight/freeze/friend mode
- Basic CRM skills
- How the body experiences the CRM Zones
Get trained in CRM or bring a training to your team
Beginning in May, any Virginia Tech employee can register for CRM training.
If you would like to bring CRM training to your department or team, you can request a training session. With this link, you can also request a visit from the CRM Sensory Bike – an interactive, playful way to learn more about regulating our nervous system through sensation.
Contact Erica Coates at coates17@vt.edu or Jon Dance at jondance76@vt.edu with any questions.
Wellness Wakeup icebreaker slides for your meetings and classes
Want to engage your next meeting or class with authentic reflection? Use our Wellness Wakeup slides to create conversation and connection with curated activities designed to:
- Integrate well-being practices
- Encourage awareness and ownership of mental health
- Help participants find calm and presence before delving into the agenda