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Past Events
Identify, Assist, Refer (IAR) Workshop
ESC2144 and Online (Hybrid)
Thursday, November 27, 2025 | 9:30 am – 11 am
This training provides practical, evidence-informed skills to help you recognise when someone may be experiencing mental-health challenges, offer appropriate support, and connect them with the right campus resources. Led by FAS’s Chad Jankowski.
Grads juggle research, teaching, deadlines, and personal responsibilities. Having the tools to notice when a peer—or you—may be struggling can make a meaningful difference. Also, this workshop can give you the skills to support undergraduates when you are teaching, and is a valuable life-long professional skill.
Pastries and coffee will be provided. Please sign up here to help us prepare refreshments and to receive the Zoom link.
NATURE WALK AT UTSC
U of T Scarborough Campus
Sunday, November 23, 2025 | 10 am – 12 pm
Markelle Morphet and Zira MacFarlane will lead a walk exploring the beautiful trails by Highland Creek near UTSG campus and ending with coffee/tea provided by MHC.
Markelle can pick up people from Keele station or York Mills station and provide TTC and driving directions.
Please sign up here the end of Friday November 21st to join the walk and to get more info on the meeting location and directions.
CRAFTY COFFEE BREAK
ESC2144
Monday Nov 17, 3 – 4 PM
These are great opportunities for grad students and postdocs to connect over an activity, have casual conversation, and get a break from work.
Drop by to grab some free coffee and sweet treats! All are welcome, and we will provide yarn, knitting needles, and crochet hooks for a crafty-themed cozy break! Stay as long as you want for the hour to chat or craft.
NATURE WALK
UTM Nature Trail
Saturday, November 8th, 2025 | 10 am – 12 pm
Zira MacFarlane will lead a walk exploring the University of Toronto Mississauga Campus (UTM) Nature Trail. Come join to enjoy the sights and wildlife of the Credit River, ending with a visit to a cafe on campus!
Please sign up here by the end of Thursday, Nov 6th to receive an email with our meeting location.
Rain date for planned for November 15th.
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday Oct 23, 2025, 10 AM – 11 AM
These are great opportunities for grad students and postdocs to connect over an activity, have casual conversation, and get a break from work.
Drop by to grab some free coffee and sweet treats! Feel free to stick around to chat and hang out. Activities and crafts will be provided (or bring your own)!
IMPOSTER SYNDROME: PEER-TO-PEER WORKSHOP
ESC2144 and Online (Hybrid)
Monday, Oct 20, 2025, 4PM – 5:30PM
Come join us for some baked goods, fruit, coffee, and tea while we discuss how to combat imposter syndrome in a safe space. We will be learning about the symptoms of imposter syndrome and strategies to address these feelings, and reflect on how we have experienced self-doubt and discuss how to increase our sense of belonging.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Disaster panel. May 1st, 2025, 10AM to 12PM.
Fieldwork fails, navigating personal loss, and coding errors are normal in academia. Don’t believe us? Join us for a panel event that gives professors, postdocs, and students a chance to share relatable “disasters” from their research and lives. Together we’ll laugh—maybe cry—and see that mishaps are a part of many folks’ academic journeys.
COFFEE BREAK
Biweekly coffee breaks. Wednesdays, 2PM to 3PM (2025).
These are great opportunities for grad students and postdocs to connect over an activity, have casual conversation, and get a break from work. We meet in the 2nd-floor lunchroom in ESC and then head to a cafe together to grab coffee (cost will be covered by the MHC). We come back to the lunch room afterwards, so please feel free to drop by anytime to chat and hang out.
NATURE WALK
Evergreen Brickworks: May 3, 2025 , 11PM to 1PM.
Rowan French and Shelly Wang will lead a walk exploring the nature area followed by beverages (coffee/hot chocolate) at the farmer’s market.
PEER-TO-PEER WORKSHOP
Disability and Neurodiversity workshop. January 15, 2024, 10AM – 12:00PM.
This workshop aims to create a safe, supportive environment where graduate students can share and learn from each other’s experiences. For the first 1.5 hours, Chloe Melo-Gavin will facilitate a discussion of people’s experiences and coping strategies around disability and neurodiversity in graduate school. For the last 30 minutes, we will be joined by Adaptive Technologist Lake Porter and Accessibility Advisor Suzette McLarty from UofT’s Accessibility Services who will focus on resources to support graduate students with disability, and how to find them.
RESOURCE WORKSHOP
Identify, Assist, Refer (IAR) workshop. November 13, 2023, 9AM – 10:30PM.
This webinar prepares participants to be able to recognise when someone is experiencing a mental health challenge, offers strategies for having helping conversations, and provides techniques for making effective referrals to appropriate campus and community resources. Led by FAS’s Chad Jankowski.
RESOURCE WORKSHOP
LivingWorks Start: Online suicide prevention skills. November 8, 2023, 10AM – 11:30AM.
LivingWorks Start trains participants to recognize when someone may be thinking about suicide and how to connect them to help and support. Participants complete online asynchronous training, followed by a 90-minute synchronous session.
RESOURCE WORKSHOP
How to attend a conference. April 21, 2023, 1PM – 2:30PM.
A panel discussion by grad students, postdocs, and faculty with a variety of conference-going experiences.
NATURE WALK
High Park, April 16, 2023, 10AM – 12PM.
Come welcome back the earliest migratory birds as they return to Toronto after their long flight north. We can expect to see a variety of waterfowl on the pond, and woodpeckers and songbirds along the trails. After getting our fill of birds, we will check out the High Park Zoo and grab a cup of coffee at the Grenadier Cafe in High Park (cost is covered by the MHC).
PEER-TO-PEER WORKSHOP
Anxiety and Depression workshop. April 3, 2023, 1PM – 2:30PM.
This workshop is an opportunity for graduate students to share and learn from each other’s experiences in a safe, supportive environment. There are three parts to this workshop: The first part, facilitated by graduate students Rebecca Schalkowski and David Murray-Stoker, gives grad students an opportunity to share their experiences and insights about navigating the demands of grad school with anxiety and depression; the second part focuses on how to get access to the mental health resources available to both international and domestic students; and the third part, facilitated by a Health & Wellness counsellor, presents support services offered by U of T.
RESOURCE WORKSHOP
Identify, Assist, Refer (IAR) workshop. February 22, 2023, 11AM – 12PM.
This webinar prepares participants to be able to recognise when someone is experiencing a mental health challenge, offers strategies for having helping conversations, and provides techniques for making effective referrals to appropriate campus and community resources. Led by FAS’s Chad Jankowski
NATURE WALK
Allan Gardens, February 12, 2023, 11AM – 12PM
Allan Gardens consist of several greenhouses with plants from diverse ecosystems. Meng will lead this walk through the greenhouse, and we’ll finish at a nearby coffee shop, with the option to get coffee together (cost will be covered by MHC). Friends and family are welcome!
RESOURCE WORKSHOP
Understanding Sexual Violence & Harassment: Tools for Prevention & Responses. December 14, 2022, 10AM – 12PM.
On online workshop that promotes a deepened understanding of sexual violence, sexual harassment, and consent, while building up violence intervention skills. Run by the Sexual Violence Prevention and Support Centre.
NATURE WALK
Evergreen Brickworks, November 19, 2022, 11AM – 1PM.
It’ll be a walk exploring the nature area followed by hot beverages (coffee/hot chocolate) at the farmer’s market.
NATURE WALK
High Park, October 23, 2022, 10AM – 12:30PM.
Come welcome back the earliest migratory birds as they return to Toronto after their long flight north. We can expect to see a variety of waterfowl on the pond, and woodpeckers and songbirds along the trails. After getting our fill of birds, we will check out the High Park Zoo and grab a cup of coffee at the Grenadier Cafe in High Park (cost is covered by the MHC).
COFFEE BREAK
Biweekly coffee breaks. Tuesdays, 3PM to 4PM (2022).
These are great opportunities for grad students and postdocs to connect over an activity, have casual conversation, and get a break from work. We meet in the 2nd-floor lunchroom in ESC and then head to a cafe together to grab coffee (cost will be covered by the MHC). We come back to the lunch room afterwards, so please feel free to drop by anytime to chat and hang out.
