Workshop works their capacity crowd during the stress

workshop and sees immediate relaxation results.© Eric Chang

The SHABear becomes a victim of yet another hug attack. The

love never ends for Active Minds on Free Hugs day.

© Eric Chang

The Workshop Committee directors Bonnie and Jimmy show

off their accomplished members. © Eric Chang

The festive balloons reveal the mood of Active Minds members

during a successful Stress workship © Eric Chang

SHABear (David) gets more than a hug

and some love. © Eric Chang

Events Director Jessie Chen shows off that

smile to draw people to draw their love of life.

© Eric Chang

LML participant Vincent Ho shows us that you

can both love yourself and love your life

© Eric Chang

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Mental Health Special Edition Recap(reflects only Active Minds Events, but thanks also to

Gender Health, HNF, and SHA’s for co-hosting the week’s events):

Monday, Feb. 28 -Free Hugs Giveaway: Complete with SHABear costume, hugs and flyers were given to all for Mental Health week on Bruin Walk. Someone even got a little frisky with the SHABear (aren’t you lucky David Guan?) ;D. Tuesday, March 1st: -UCLA’s 1st Annual Mental Health Week received front page coverage in the Daily Bruin. -Love.My.Life Cardmaking: LML took frisbee giveaway. Pretty successful overall, gave away a lot of frisbees which means lots of LML cards. Thanks to our enthusiastic new members for helping out! -Stress Workshop: A Stress Workshop was held in CAPS conference room, where Workshop Committee members Chanel, Wendy, and Bonnie presented on how to prevent/ reduce stress in our daily lives. After the workshop, participants made stress balls with flour and used them to play a game to win raffle tickets. In the end, a UCLA basketball was raffled off! The winner was one of our presenters, Chanel. Congrats! Wednesday, March 2nd: -Depression Workshop: A Depression Workshop was held in CAPS conference room, where we presented on topics such as how to identify signs of depression, how to reach out for help, and how to reduce the likelihood of developing depression. At the workshop, we did a beading activity to keep the audience engaged. We raffled off a UCLA football in the end. Thursday, March 3rd: -QPR Training: March 3, 2011: Dr. Robert Corb led a QPR session on Thursday night in the Ackerman 2nd floor lounge. This event was co-programmed by Active Minds and fellow SWC committee Gender Health. More than 30 people showed up, which includes many non-members as well. It was a great opportunity to open up QPR to the whole campus! Many people found it helpful and useful.

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday, April 12th 6-8 P.M. at CAPS: -First General Meeting of Spring: Come help prepare for the upcoming events of Bruin Health Week and find out about what you missed at retreat! Tuesday, April 19th 7-10 P.M. at De Neve A1 and B1 Lounges: -Chillax to the Max: Active Minds joins SHAs in coprogramming a distressing event by tabling. Make sure to come!

Two members work hard to share the love and give them hugs. © David Guan

Workshop Committee director Bonnie and members Wendy and Chanel present the Stress Workshop to a captive audience of eager students at CAPs. © Eric Chang

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Dr. Corb directs the attention of the QPR contingent towards a

slide about QPR. This session of QPR is one of the few

presented to wide audience of the campus. © Eric Chang