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Do you like creative writing?

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If you don’t already know, creative writing allows people to express emotions within a safe environment. It can relieve stress and anxiety, clarify and organise thoughts, and achieve mindfulness. If you have been wanting to start writing or continue to grow your skills, continuing your writing to your wellbeing, creative writing workshops might be for you!

These workshops are focused on a range of topics allowing group discussions to take place as well as writing exercises and self-directed discussion/writing time.

Topics include:

  • Hope
  • Flash fiction and micro fiction
  • Identity
  • Poetry
  • Fear
  • Writing for mental health and wellbeing

The workshops are free and available for all students and any range of ability. They are taking place Mondays during semester 2 (22 July – 7 October) at 2:30pm- 4:30pm in the living room (located beside the UC bookshop).

Please register through the form linked below to reserve a place as spots are limited to 22 students per week.

Registration Link here!

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Health and Fitness, The Community, Wellbeing

Discover the RecCentre

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Are you one of those people who gets a gym membership and then never goes?  Kudos for getting your gym membership sorted first of all, now how about we show you how to get started?

Getting started is the hardest part
  • Time is one of the hugest barriers to exercise.  Once you acknowledge how important exercise is to your mental and physical health, it’s essential you make the time!  Even a 30min brisk walk daily is great, but setting aside some dedicated you time at the gym will take you that extra mile
  • Cost is recognised as the next barrier to break through.  Luckily for you, your student levy covers the cost of your RecCentre membership, where you can access a fully equipped gym  at your fingertips without shelling out any more pesos.
  • The next big barrier is knowing what to do.   We’ve got you covered.  The RecCentre offers a range of ways for you to get started at the gym at little or no cost.

Five ways to get started at the RecCentre

First of all, sign up online for your membership AND then download the Rec&Sport App.    Once you’ve done that, here’s how we can help:

  1. Exercise at home with the Rec&Sport app 
    Inside the app you can head to the workouts tab and there you can find and follow sessions, routines, programmes and classes in the comfort of your own home with exciting names like Core Explosion, Core Quest, Twist & Tone and Bottoms up.
  2. Book into Discover the Gym
    Ideal for first timers – learn how to use the app, the basics of using the machines and get a tour of the gym if you need one.   Book via the app – you’ll find them in the Book Classes section.

3. Book into other Discovery Sessions 
Discover Lifting – learn the basics of lifting (the foundational lifts)
Discover SkillX, Discover Yoga, Discover Spin – shorter length, entry level classes at a less intense pace, slowing down to teach technique

4. Book into a Group Fitness Class 
Our classes are all levels – just make sure you let the instructor know if it’s your first time so they can get you set up right.   You’re always in charge of your body and your workout, so you can rest when you need to and push when you can!      Hot tip though – if you’re interested in Step, please try Step Basic first!

5.  Book an Exercise Consultation or PT Session 
These do have a cost, but we keep it as low as we can for students.  Sit down and chat with a fitness professional and have a programme made just for you, based on your experience, goals and preferences.

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Ashleigh’s advice

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Ashleigh Johns (PhD student)

Digital assistance for your studies

Read&Write has been an excellent addition to my studies. It offers more than 18 study support features, all on a customizable floating toolbar. One of my favorites is the highlighter feature. I use it while reading course material to mark important points. At the click of a button, R&W can pull out the highlighted text portions and paste them into a Word document within a few seconds. I find this feature very helpful when there’s a lot I’d like to note down from an article, textbook, or other documents that I am reading. I also find the dictionary tool quite handy. It helps me check out the meaning of new or complex words. And if I want to rest my eyes, I can have R&W read aloud the text on my screen.

R&W has a translator tool too that can be very useful to international students.

The Assistive Technology Team runs fantastic training sessions to help students access the benefits of Read&Write and other such learning support applications.

I highly recommend R&W as an excellent learning support application.

Go ahead and enroll in an information session right now! You will be amazed to see what you can achieve with R&W!