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May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we’d like to support you every step of your mental health journey.
That’s why we’ve partnered with Calm to bring you the Mindful Mondays Challenge throughout the month of May. After you sign up for the challenge, Calm will send you an email every Monday, starting on May 2. They’ll be sharing mindfulness activities to help you build positive, healthy habits. The goal is to support you in prioritizing your mental health and overall well-being.
How can you participate in the Mindful Mondays Challenge?
Step 1 - Sign up for the challenge
Step 2 - Activate your free Calm premium subscription in less than three minutes, if you haven’t already. Follow the instructions here: Calm for CSUN Employees
Step 3 - Download the Calm app onto your mobile device so can access the Challenge content
Let’s all start moving towards a happier and healthier workplace this year!
As a reminder, Calm's mobile app elements are accessible to mobile assistive technology such as screen readers like VoiceOver for iOS and Talkback for Android and these devices' native live-captioning and subtitle capabilities. If you do not have this assistive technology on your device, you can use Calm's web app to utilize their assistive technology.
For more information on Calm or to activate your free membership, visit our Benefits' Calm website.
Please join our CSUN community by attending the Revitalize - Campus Care Recovery Program's one-day virtual conference! On April 26, 2022, 8:45 a.m.-4:15 p.m.,
This conference consists of a series of workshops and keynote speakers focused on wellness and collective healing from grief and trauma. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted us on an individual and community level. Returning to campus can come with its own challenges in finding a new "normal." Our goal is to provide effective self-care strategies and relevant information in a safe space, that fosters community healing and revitalization.
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Welcoming & Overview of Conference
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote Address: David Kessler, MA, RN, FACHE Resilience from Grief and Loss
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Revitalize Student Multimedia ArtCompetition Awards
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Workshop 1: Trauma-Informed Yoga for Healing and Compassion with Zabie Yamasaki, M.Ed., RYT
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Workshop 2: A Window Between Worlds - Cup of Gratitude with Christy Turek Rials
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Workshop 3: Mental Wellness & Self Care with Ayana Shepherd, MSW
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Final Keynote: Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, MSW Trauma Stewardship, Healing from Collective Trauma
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
For more information: Revitalize One Day Conference | California State University, Northridge (csun.edu)
Registration Link: https://csun.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tYh4Fx3eTe6LOPf0NptC1w
All CSUN faculty, staff, and students are invited to save the date for the annual Student Success Celebration hosted by the Office of Student Success.
Join us as we review our student success efforts and outcomes for this year. We will also honor the winners of the Riccomini Scholarship and Matador Moments contests, and announce this year’s Student Success Champions!
Thursday, April 28th
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Virtual – Zoom
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Cal State University, Northridge celebrates international day of action through an innovative awareness campaign, events, day of giving, teaching, and celebration.
Did you know more than one third of U.S. food goes to waste each year? Whether it’s due to natural spoilage or an overabundance of groceries, food waste is a huge issue for families and communities across the world. To help raise awareness of this issue, CSUN is challenging all students and faculty to participate in Stop Food Waste Day on April 27. Launched in 2017 by the global leader in food service Compass Group, Stop Food Waste Day is an annual international day of action focused on highlighting the important issue of food waste and ways we can reduce it.
Matador Eats has a full day of activities on April 27th at the Campus Store Lawn and Bamboo Terrace.
To celebrate Stop Food Waste Day this year, CSUN and its food service partner Chartwells Higher Education are inviting students, staff and faculty to participate in many fun activities:
- Learn about the nature of essential oils and their main applications.
- Adopt sustainable practices with essential oil use by identifying which oils are more demanding on the environment.
- Understand the safety and knowledge requirements for their use.
- Gain confidence to seek further knowledge from reputable sources.
This presentation will not be recorded, but copies of the slides will be available to individuals that register.
1) Essential Oil Safety Masterclass (online) with the Tisserand Institute (1 winner).
2) Single class of choice from the online classes at the Tisserand Institute (2 winners).
3) Essential oils kit starter (includes Eucalyptus Globulus, Lemon, Peppermint, Sweet Orange, Tea Tree and Lavender). Pick-up on campus.
Gift values total over $500.
Learn more about our speakers and gift options here: https://
Please submit any questions to: magaram.center@csun.edu.
Each year, we award 15 scholarships at $2,000 each recipient in three categories: first-generation, legacy and graduate student.
The deadline to apply is May 7.
For more information click here.
Every year, the CTL hosts its annual Education on the Edge event, finding and highlighting individuals who are on the cutting edge of education. These events are co-sponsored by the Schools First Federal Credit Union, allowing the CTL to bring in excellent content and speakers while making the event free to the public.
This semester, the Education on the Edge event will take place on May 10th, 5:00-6:30 p.m. PST on Zoom, allowing a more national audience to join us. We are honored to share the award-winning work of a recent CSUN alumnus, Avery Fox.
Together, participants will view a screening of Translucent, a moving 24-minute documentary about a young adult’s gender transition journey. Translucent was a finalist for the 48th Annual Student Academy Awards. CSUN alum, Avery Fox, is both the subject of the documentary and creator of the film. Avery will join a diverse panel of varying perspectives on the topic, of how educators can best support transgender individuals. Q&A will be encouraged.
You can view a pdf version of the flyer below, here.
All CSUN Staff are invited to participate in Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED)Training, May 24 -27, 2022
SEED provides an opportunity to promote honest, open conversation with the goal to cultivate a safe an inclusive environment for staff, faculty and students.
Seed Training uses storytelling to reflect upon our own past, our current roles and how we can imagine the experience of people unlike ourselves through learning, narratives, and media.
You can view a pdf version of the following flyer, here.
An uplifting celebration of “YOU” as an educator in today’s, right now, world.
Networking opportunity for chapter members with a musical component. Breakout rooms will have tailored questions around teachers' response to COVID and their outlook for the future. Music will be provided by Billy Coane, a Los Angeles Unified School District multi-talented musical artist, that will bring, in a musical format, thought provoking and celebratory notes of our recent educational experience.
Join the Attorney Networking Group for an evening of camaraderie in the comfort of your own home and connect with fellow Matador attorneys.
Please join us on Wednesday, May 11th at 6:00 pm for a mixer and an informational meeting to discuss the new chapter. We are looking forward to a good conversation about the chapter’s goals and pursuing candidates for leadership. Heavy hors d'oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages will be served.
The USU has opened their events up for the entire CSUN campus community to keep everyone engaged and provide beneficial services during the pandemic. You can find additional information detailed on our calendar or webpage.
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We invite you to participate in our free workshops led by a variety of instructors offering mindfulness meditation, gentle yoga, nutrition education, visual-guided meditation, sound healing and more!
Workshops are free and open to all!
No Registration Required.
Join Zoom Meeting; https://csun.zoom.us/j/87180974308?pwd=eHlOY3ZXaER6MnVsTWNvekNMWmY3UT09
Meeting ID: 871 8097 4308
Passcode: wellbeing
For more information visit our website https://csun.edu/wellbeing or email us at wellbeing@csun.edu.
You can access the online version of the April 7, 2022 CSU Leader here.
