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Classes, Workshops and Groups

Healthy Living Series

Take a free Healthy Living workshop for a healthier body and mind. Select from a series of one-hour sessions on topics including meditation, stress management and stress overeating, exercise for busy people, and mind-body techniques for chronic pain conditions. Look for additional workshops throughout the year, featuring the latest topics in healthy living.

Classes

MIT Medical offers wellness and exercise classes, classes for expectant parents, and CPR at various times during the academic year. See the class listing and registration page for current class descriptions, schedule and cost.

Interest Groups

Graduate Mothers Group

New and expectant mothers who are graduate students or postdocs are also invited to join the Graduate Mothers Group. Share your stories, seek support, and connect with other graduate moms during monthly lunches in the Margaret Cheney Room (3-310). Join the group and get emails about upcoming meeting dates by subscribing to the gradmoms@mit.edu list. Anyone with questions may email Jennifer Recklet (reck@med.mit.edu) of spouses&partners@mit, or Alicia Erwin (aeerwin@mit.edu) of the Student Activities Office.

spouses&partners@mit

spouses&partners@mit is a support and resource network for the wives, husbands, and significant others of students, staff, and faculty that helps spouses build a social network, learn a new language, and locate the resources needed to build a life in Boston. spouses&partners@mit has been especially useful in making connections for newcomers and in helping them participate fully in MIT activities and in the larger community by helping them pursue professional, educational, and parenting goals, as well as cultural and volunteer activities. The group’s regular activities include weekly meetings (child care provided), parent-child play groups, a job support group, and a variety of member-initiated interest groups and activities. spouses&partners@mit also has a comprehensive website, which includes the Newcomers Guide and MIT FamilyNet, an online community for MIT families. The program is informal and members may join any time during the year. Jennifer Recklet, the Program Coordinator, is also available for private individual consultation on any issues members would like to discuss.

Group Counseling

MIT Medical's Mental Health Service offers many different therapy, support, and discussion groups for members of the MIT community. Some groups are time-limited and focus on a particular theme; others are ongoing. Common issues addressed in groups include relationships, substance abuse, life transitions, academic problems, and family issues.

Custom Workshops

Our health experts can design custom educational workshops and health programs for your office, lab, residence hall, fraternity, sorority, or independent living group. Workshops include health information and specifically tailored interactive discussions. To request a workshop, please complete and submit the registration form at least two weeks in advance of your desired program date. We will contact you approximately two business days after you submit your request to confirm workshop details. As a workshop sponsor, you are responsible for all advertising, room reservation and setup, refreshments, and attendance. Workshops are for MIT groups only, and we request that at least ten people attend.

getfit@mit

getfit@mit is an annual 12-week, team-oriented fitness challenge open to the entire MIT community. The goal of getfit@mit is to help make MIT a healthier community by encouraging participants to exercise regularly.

Teams of five to eight people compete based on the average number of minutes exercised each week. Prizes are awarded weekly to teams and individuals from among those teams meeting the steadily increasing weekly exercise goals. The grand prize winner is selected at random from all eligible teams meeting the minimum average exercise goal for at least ten out of twelve weeks of the competition. For more information, visit the getfit@mit web site.

MedLinks (for students)

MedLinks is a residentially based peer advocacy program. Trained student representatives, called MedLinks, live among other students and offer private, accessible, one-on-one peer support and referrals for a range of student concerns, including nutrition and fitness, food and body-image issues, sexual health, sexual and relationship violence, substance use and abuse, mental health, stress and sleep issues, and physical ailments. Many MedLinks have also completed CPR training, which allows them to respond to incidents of chest pain, choking, breathing difficulties, and other emergencies.

Most living groups, dorms, and fraternities have at least one resident MedLink on-site. To find a MedLink in your living group, visit the "Find Us" section of the MedLinks web site. If you or a student you know is interested in becoming a MedLink, see the MedLinks web site for contact information.