Workshops and Groups

Ready Set Success (RSS): Seneca Transition Program 

Seneca offers a transition program for new students with disabilities through a workshop called Ready...Set...Success! (RSS).  RSS is a series of interactive group sessions designed to help students with disabilities or accessibility needs develop and refine successful learning skills and habits.  RSS takes place just before the start of the Fall and Winter terms each academic year.  Participants have the option to attend either in person at the Newnham campus or online via Microsoft Teams.  

Discovering Balance and Compassion Amongst the Busyness

This 2-part workshop will provide peer facilitators and student attendees an opportunity to understand, acknowledge, and recognize the reality of being a post-secondary student and the busyness, stress, and overwhelm that comes with it. Through discussion, collaboration, activities, and shared insight, students will learn the importance of finding balance and compassion during these times and helpful strategies to support their well-being as a student and human.   

Executive Functioning Skills Workshop Series  

This 4-part (weekly) workshop series will support students in understanding what executive functioning skills are, why they are important, how to develop and maintain these skills, and the importance of executive functioning skills as it relates to their academic, professional, and personal success.  

Self-Advocacy Workshop 

This workshop is designed for students to understand what self-advocacy is, why it is important, how to develop and maintain self-advocacy skills, and understanding the importance of self-advocacy as it relates to their academic, professional, and personal success.