Dr. Thea Zunick, is a national coaching, speaking, and facilitation professional with a tenure of over 15 years of experience. She is currently employed as a Senior Manager of Community Engagament at the nation’s leading mental health and suicide prevention non-profit.

She delivers engaging learning material to folks both in-person and online specializing in well-being & wellness, joy, adult learning, psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and resiliency. She has had the opportunity to provide workshops and trainings for organizations such as AFA, NGLA, AFLV, various inter/national fraternal organizations and collegiate campuses and in the for-profit sector, OLLY Vitamin, Teach for America, Americorps, GEP, AIG, and most recently BASF. She is an accomplished author with chapters written in 3 published books and has co-authored an article on Thrive Global.

Dr. Z earned an Associate’s Degree from Middlesex County College, a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Elementary Education from The College of New Jersey, a Master’s degree in Student Personnel in Higher Education from University of Florida, and a Doctorate of Education for the Design of Learning Environments from Rutgers University.

Resiliency… Scary? Daunting? Intimidating? It doesn't have to be. Being Resilient increases the strength and speed of our response to difficult situations and can have a positive impact on mental health and subjective wellbeing. Dr. Zunick will take you through a compelling story of how you need to #startwithme by reflecting inward and then follow concrete steps to build your Resilience muscles. It’s just a matter of knowing how.

Learning Objectives: As a result of engaging with this program students will be able to:

• Reflect and interpret their own emotions and response to stress
• Shift the way their brain responds to adversity and change
• Develop a toolbox full of resilience-building skills

We all have one thing in common right now, we could all use more joy! We deserve to feel okay powering up this feeling again, especially since the current state of affairs calls upon us to focus MORE on creating joy, not less. Joy can improve your mental well being, lower stress, and help you feel calm. This program covers the four areas of activating joy in a micro and macro environment: Kindness, Gratitude, Reframing, and Connection. Participants will leave this learning opportunity ready to create a world where they are empowered to create more joy.

Learning Objectives: As a result of engaging with this program students will be able to:

• Understand the positive implications of implementing more joy into their life
• Identify 4 steps for adding more joy into your life
• Apply techniques for cultivating joy in a micro and macro environment

Have you read stories of hazing, sexual assaults, and alcohol/drug abuse within student organizations, either on your college campus or on other campuses in your area? Worried about these things in your own community/organization? By building empathy as a skill in your own organization, you can create better communities, reduce risk, break down barriers of difference, and create a kinder, more loving and united community. Dr. Z encourages participants to start with themselves (#startwithme) and develop clear action steps to become more comfortable infusing empathy into their daily lives.

Learning Objectives: As a result of engaging with this program students will be able to:

• Examine the three main types of empathy and how to recognize these emotions in oneself
• Identify techniques to strengthen reliance on empathy as a skill to build better connections and relationships
• Discover how practicing empathy can be an effective way to reduce risky behaviors and break down barriers of difference

Emotional intelligence involves a variety of skills that help students navigate the challenges of academic and student life. Becoming comfortable relying on these skills will help them achieve goals, make good decisions, solve problems, manage stress, interact effectively with others, and function both independently and collaboratively. Students participating in this session will have the opportunity to complete a self assessment identifying their top 3 skills that they want to improve upon and then will explore how they can be more aware of their use of their own emotions leading them to realize a more fulfilled and happy life.

Learning Objectives: As a result of engaging with this program students will be able to:

• Define Emotional Intelligence (EI/EQ) and its importance as a student leader.
• Understand the importance of practicing emotional intelligence.
• Identify the top 5 emotional intelligence skills needed to succeed as a student leader.
• Explore ways that emotional intelligence can applied in group settings and as individual leaders.