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November

19
Mental Fitness and Suicide Awareness
https://www.cafconnection.ca/National-Capital-Region/Adults/Health/Ottawa-Health-Promotion/Core-Programs/Mental-Fitness-and-Suicide-Awareness.aspx
08:00 -16:00
18-11-19
NDHQ (Carling) | QGDN (Carling)
60, prom Moodie Dr. Ottawa ON
Mental Fitness and Suicide Awareness is designed to promote awareness and skill-building, to maximize mental fitness both individually and in the workplace, and to lessen the incidence of mental health injuries including suicide.
Topics discussed include:
The Mental Health Continuum and mental fitness
How to maintain and improve your mental fitness
How to practice 4 different types of stress management techniques
The role of a supervisor in promoting a culture of understanding and mental fitness
How to recognize the signs of a person in distress
How to intervene and help someone having thought of suicide, get the help they need.
Create a personal action plan to strengthen and maintain your personal mental fitness.
The benefits
Individual
Be able to take concrete steps towards maintaining your own mental health, while also watching over that of others.
Know how to recognize the signs of a person at risk of suicide.
Community
Foster a culture of understanding and greater safety.
Be there for your peers!
20
Transgender Day of Remembrance
https://www.facebook.com/events/706212626416236/
18:00 -20:00
18-11-20
On 20 November 2018, the transgender community in the National Capital Region will be remembering the members they lost to violence and hatred. The commemoration will be held at the Human Rights Memorial on Elgin Street at 1800hrs.
All members of the NCR Defence Team are welcomed to attend and show support to the transgender and gender-diverse community in the NCR.
Following the vigil, a community gathering will be held at the Lord Elgin, where snacks and warm beverages will be provided.
For more information, please contact Major Kathryn Foss.
21
Inter-Comm
https://www.cafconnection.ca/National-Capital-Region/Adults/Health/Ottawa-Health-Promotion/Core-Programs/Inter-Comm.aspx
18:00 -21:00
18-11-21
NDHQ (Carling) | QGDN (Carling)
60, prom Moodie Dr. Ottawa ON
Inter-Comm: Improve communication within personal relationships by learning the attitudes and skills required to deal with conflict effectively. Through exercises and coaching, participants learn to: understand conflict and increase active listening skills, use a collaborative model for resolving conflict built on Interest-based Communication skills, and use collaboration and communication to support health and well-being in relationships.
What you will learn about:
Causes of conflict and how it escalates
Conflict management styles – find yours!
Interest-based communication
Collaborative communication model and how to use it to resolve issues
Active and Empathic listening skills
22
NDWCC Canadian Army HQ Fall Festival
https://infog.ca/event/ndwcc-canadian-army-hq-fall-festival/
10:00 -15:00
18-11-22
Cartier Square Drill Hall | Manège militaire de la place Cartier
2, prom Queen Elizabeth Drive, Ottawa
Join the NDWCC at the Canadian Army HQ Fall Festival!
Open to all
Activities: Vendor showcase, Silent Auction, pizza lunch, dessert auction workshops (painting, yoga, running clinic, self-defense)
Pre-purchase ticket for lunch and workshop painting
Where: Cartier Square Drill Hall
Time: 22 November, 2018 – 1000 to 1500 hrs.
27
Stress: Take Charge
https://www.cafconnection.ca/National-Capital-Region/Adults/Health/Ottawa-Health-Promotion/Core-Programs/Stress-Take-Charge.aspx
08:30 -16:00
18-11-27
Stress: Take Charge!: Helps participants develop an understanding of the stress reaction based on their individual life stressors. Participants will learn tools and select coping mechanisms that they can use in everyday life to make changes and manage their stress levels. What you will learn about:
- Your personal stressors
- The stress and relaxation response
- The relationship between stress and anger
- Health effects of long & short-term stress
- The Personal Power Grid & making choices
- Stress and the military
- Resilience & how to build it
- Work-life balance
- Stress and your lifestyle habits
- Relaxation techniques to help minimise your stress response