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Whole-hearted Living
Six week series free from cost, stress, and exams
(Note: you do not need to have completed Series 1.0 or 2.0 to benefit from this course)
Offered in Winter 2027
Enter the new term living wholeheartedly while accepting your gifts, imperfections, and areas of growth as clues to your authentic self. Practice self-compassion and mindfulness to support yourself during times of uncertainty, newness, and challenge. Experience:
- Mindfulness and self-care practices
- Reflective exercises to discover more of who you are
- Attention to your dreams and what they are telling you about yourself
- Treating yourself with kindness and respect, letting go of comparison and self-criticism
- Exploring how to say no to that which is not yo
- Struggle as a path to bravery, kindness, wisdom, and resilience
A chance to share ideas for authentic living with others who are asking similar questions. The course includes weekly 50-minute workshops with interactive group exercises, self-awareness and mindfulness practices to try at home, and a meeting with a staff coach. You will be guided in practicing daily mindfulness exercises in your own time and submit a short weekly reflection about your experiences of these exercises.
Weekly themes:
Session 1: Embracing the Real Me (and how to get self-defeating opinions out of my head)
Session 2: Empowerment - Uncovering my skills, gifts, and the treasure within
Session 3: Befriending Myself through Mindfulness
Session 4: Gifts and Shadows: moving beyond comparison (working with dreams)
Session 5: Learning from Struggles and Imperfections
Session 6: From Comparison to Compassion
The Becoming Yourself series is funded by Student Open Circles and is open to post-secondary students at no cost.
"For me, Open Circle’s Becoming Yourself Series allowed me to pause and reflect on some very important questions around who I am, what my values are, and how I enact and would like to enact them in my daily life. More importantly, it reminded me that I am not alone in my journey and I am not alone in my courage—we are all connected by our shared humanity." (Participant)
Watch Samidha describe her experience in the series.
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Required Screening
To attend, review our Screening Checklist. If you are feeling unwell, please do not attend. Exception: if you were sick within the last 5 days, but your symptoms have improved for 2 days, you are welcome to attend if you wear a mask. If you’ve been exposed to others who are sick within the past 5 days, please wear a mask (masks available).