Monday 5th October
Wednesday 7th October
Capoeira workshop
Global Fair
Open to all societies
11am - 4pm: Bailey Allen Hall
A healthy planet, proactively engaging in global issues and celebrating all the wonderful cultures on
our campus is reason to celebrate & raise your spirits, meeting our societies & guests, winning €1000
from Supermacs & tasting delicious food from all our community partners is reason to smile.
Entertainment from Bollywood dancing to kung Fu plus bake sales with Draiocht & islamic Society
and Curry & Rice from india Soc, and Brazilian Soup from Marcos Café, ACS’s Campaign
#blacklivesmatter and the launch of GIG Soc’s Be Brave Campaign.
Building Resilience workshop - Joe Murphy
12pm– 1pm : The View - Áras Na Mac Léinn
Launch of Mental Health Week & ‘The Little Things
Campaign’
12.30pm: Quadrangle
Group Juggling
Thursday 7th of October
Juggling Society
6pm to 8pm: Foyer Áras na Mac Léinn
Juggling event for mental health week; get involved and learn new juggling skills with fun and
friendly people.
Chats & Laughs Coffee Morning
Mr. Robot Screening
Compsoc
6pm to 8pm: The Meeting Rooms Áras na Mac Léinn
Matching in with Mental Health week, Elliot is afraid and reluctant to ask for help from his friends
and the show illustrates how important it is to talk and enjoy life to the full.
#littlethings. “Lending an ear is Lending a Hand”.
Tuesday 6th October
Choral Society
2pm – 4pm: The Meeting Rooms Áras na Mac Léinn
Come along for an amazing opportunity to experience the power of song to communicate. This will
be a musical setting for a social experience, as singing has mental and physical benefits for those
with memory loss.
What Do You Think?
Writer’s Society
8pm-11pm : The Meeting Rooms, Áras na Mac Léinn
Writer’s Soc Screening event of the dead poet’s society for NUIG’s Mental Health Week come have
tea and a movie screening of a classic film with Writer’s Soc. This is a great event for mental health
week and runs with the theme of “Add friends to your tea”.
Seas Suas
6pm - 8pm: Room 129 Lecture Theatre 2 Áras Moyala
A programme promoting health and wellbeing, encourages & equips students to help fellow students
appropriately & safely.
Doctor Who Screening
Time Lord Society
7pm – 9.30pm: D’Arcy Thompson Theatre, The Concourse.
Special screenings Vincent and the Doctor' and 'Gridlock’ explore Mental Health Week
themes.
3pm - 4pm
‘The View’ - Áras Na Mac Léinn
Mental Health and Comic Books
6pm – 8pm
The Stage
Comic Book Soc presents a look at the depiction of mental health in Graphic novels and comic books, an
increasingly important and popular medium.
BE BRAVE Campaign Party
GIG soc
8pm
College Bar
After –party in College Bar. Finger food, drinks vouchers, launch of 'BE BRAVE‘ campaign's main video
open to everyone come together and meet people from our societies. This event for Mental Health Week
is a great way to get involved and know people.
#littlethings “problems feel smaller when you share them”
Rant Night
Cheese and Ribena
French Soc
8pm-9:30pm: The Stage, Áras na Mac Léinn.
Cheese and Ribena Night as a part of Mental Health Week.
#littlethings “Drink less and Great nights become good Mornings”
Lit & Deb
7pm-10pm
Kirwan Theatre
If you have something that annoys you; something that bothers you; something that you simply MUST
speak about... Come and rant to us! We're the best listeners. You might even spur on another's speech.
#littlethings “Problems feel smaller when you share them”
Please Talk Vigil
Wednesday 7th October
Please Talk Society
7:30pm-8:30pm
An Gáirdín Sosa, The Chapel Of Saint Columbanus
Light your candle of Hope to promote mental health and happiness of heart at NUI Galway chapel.
What Do You Think?
12noon – 3pm
Engineering Building
Write down the ‘Little Things’ that you think promote happiness and success. Free Mental Health
Goodie Bag.
Friday 9th of October
Mindful Way Conference explores the impact of
mindfulness
Mindfulness for Daily Life
workshop Aisling Battersby
8.30am – 5pm
Institute for Lifecourse & Society (ILAS)
explores the impact of mindfulness Continues on Saturday
2pm– 3pm: The View, Áras Na Mac Léinn
Friendship, Fun and Photo Booths
Best Buddies Society
2pm – 6.30pm: Smokies Concourse
A mood board.
Write a message and stick it onto the mood board. And write a resolution to someone else's problem
already posted on the board.
A photo booth.
Pose with friends for a photo that will be posted on the Best Buddies Facebook page. This fun activity
aims to bring everyone together in a fun and inclusive way.
#littlethings ““Problems feel smaller when you share them”
www.nuigalway.ie/student-life/mental-health-week
Laughter is the Best Medicine
workshop Donal Gannon
‘The View’ - Áras Na Mac Léinn
4pm- 5pm
Is a framework which helps to overcome distressing symptoms and unhelpful behaviours.
Dead Poet’s Society Screening
#littlethings
2pm– 3pm
‘The View’ - Áras Na Mac Léinn
The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
12pm – 3pm: Wellbeing Stand - Smokey’s – Concourse
Write down the ‘Little Things’ that you think promote happiness and success.
Free Mental Health Goodie Bag.
PotterSoc
8pm AC203
Bring a dish of food celebrating witches and wizards around the world,
#littlethings “Boost your mood with healthy food
Please Talk Society
10:30am-12pm
The Hub
Please Talk Society would like to invite Staff & Students to join us for the launch of our “Chats &
Laughs”Coffee Morning, which we aim to run every 3 weeks in the Hub in Aras Na MacLeinn. The purpose
of these Coffee Mornings is to give People a space to lighten the load of life and to help highlight the need
for meaningful conversations around Mental Health.
#littlethings “Add freinds to your Tea” “Problems feel smaller when you share them”
Putting off Procrastination
workshop James McCormack
Singing With Dementia Patients
Bring a dish
GIG Soc, Writer’s Soc and Art Soc
7pm-9pm
IT202
Writer’s Workshop – creating a post-'reflection' diary - publication for our members/writer’s soc/art soc
(stories, slam poetry, drawings etc). Come and share our thoughts, idea's, memories, dreams for the
future. This event with mental health week brings three societies together improving mental health
awareness by sharing life experiences.
#littlethings “lending an ear is lending a hand”.
Handball Club
Kingfisher Sports Hall
For all those who wish to have a go in the sports hall – just like the school yard
#littlethings “the more you move the better your mood”.
2pm - 3pm: The View – Áras Na Mac Léinn
3pm– 4pm : The View: Áras Na Mac Léin
Writer’s Workshop Collaboration
One Wall- Intro to handball
Strategies for Taking Study in Your Stride
workshop - James McCormack
Stress Busting Techniques
workshop Aisling Battersby
DanSoc
6pm
The Cube
The Capoeira workshop explores a style of dance from a different part of the world, getting your body
moving in line with mental health week and the theme of
#littlethings “the more you move the better your mood”.
Funky Seomra
Sober Society
Friday 8:30pm
The Cube
Funky Seomra with Sober society is a sober event running in line with Mental
Health week this is a fun event that doesn’t need alcohol to have a good time.
#littlethings “Drink less and great nights become good mornings”
All Week
Free Goodie Bags
& ‘The Little Things’ pack given out by the
Students Union. Throughout the campus from
11am – 3pm Mon – Thur.
Art Exhibition
Art is a wound turned into light
highlighting the therapeutic value of art in the
area of mental health facilitated by Please Talk .
Foyer, Áras Na Mac Léinn
Mindful Way Conference
continues (as above)
NUI, Galway 8km
Kingfisher, NUI Galway, 10am
charity run for Jigsaw – open to everyone .
Clubs:
“The more you move the better your mood”
Societies:
“problems feel smaller when you share them”
www.yourmentalhealth.ie - Twitter: #littlethings - Facebook: facebook.com/littlethingshub
Saturday 10th
NUI Galway
Clubs & Societies
Sunday 11th
Positive Mental Health
1pm & 9pm Mass
College Chapel
Eimear Connaughton, Mental Health Ireland