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Quick Links
- Student Intervention Team
- Substance Abuse Services
- Relaxation Exercises
- Conversation Group for International Students
and/or Spouses
- International Women's Support Group
- Grief and Loss Support Group
- Email us with questions: counslg@olemiss.edu
GROUPS
In addition to individual counseling, the University Counseling Center offers a host of group experiences for all students, faculty and staff. Descriptions of the various programs – their aims, focus and format – are provided below. May one or more of these groups pique your interest.
Conversation Group for International Students and/or Spouses
Have no one to talk to?
Feeling Homesick?
Having difficulty understanding/speaking the language?
Do not know where to go? Whom to ask? How to work?
Having trouble managing time/academic stress?
If you are an international student or spouse, please join the conversation group that is affiliated with the Office of International Programs and the University Counseling Center. Come and meet once a week. If interested, please call 915-3784, or email your name and phone number to us at counslg@olemiss.edu
International Women's Support Group
Are you a wife or mother who is new to this country?
Are you experiencing cultural shock?
Are you having difficulty understanding or speaking the language?
Are you feeling lonely?
Please join the International Women's Support Group that is affiliated with the Office of International Programs and the University Counseling Center. If you are interested, please call 915-3784, or e-mail your name and phone number to counslg@olemiss.edu.
Grief and Loss Support Group
Have you experienced a loss in your life recently?
Are you experiencing a life-threatening disease or long-tem disability?
Has someone close to you died?
Are you going through a divorce?
Have you lost your job?
Come join us in our Grief and Loss Support Group. We meet Tuesdays (beginning September 13, 2005) from 11:30 AM-1:00 PM. The group is open to all faculty, staff, and students. We invite you to come share your experiences with one another. Please call 915-3784 to reserve your place.
Just One-Breath
Through the ages the practice of meditation has taken many different forms, but the process appears to be one and the same: deliberate stillness and attention. And the benefits accrued from a sustained practice of meditation, whatever form the path might take, appear to be reliable ones: serenity, clarity, relaxation, self-assurance and compassion. As way of planting the see of meditation in our community, the Just One-Breath sitting group meets Monday thru Friday at 9:00 am at the University Counseling Center. All students, faculty and staff are invited. For further information, contact Dean Worsham at 915-3784.
ALLIES
The ALLIES program seeks to foster a campus climate of safety, acceptance, support and respect for all students, regardless of sexual identity and orientation. Through the use of experiential exercises and accurate information, the program highlights and challenges common myths, misperceptions and biases regarding gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Students are alerted and educated as to the rights, respectful treatment and kind consideration of gay, lesbian and bisexual students. And faculty and staff are trained to serve as mentors and advocates for gay, lesbian and bisexual students in need. For more information on the ALLIES program, contact Vicki Mahan at 915-3789.
Way of the Heart
The aim of the Way of the Heart program is to heal the past and present wounds of racial separateness among those of us attending and working at the University of Mississippi, and in doing so, create true human community here at the University of Mississippi – a human community in which all persons are accorded dignity, respect and value. Carried out in a small group format over a seven-week period, each weekly meeting focuses on one or more key component skills in relieving emotional suffering, relating with loving kindness and building a healthy community. For more information on the Way of the Heart program, contact Susannah Dakin, or Dean Worsham at 915-3784.