This presentation is all about supporting your mental and emotional health with nutrition. Food can play an important role in supporting our brain health, from our focus and cognitive function, to our mental health and mood. Food can also influence our emotions, and vice versa. Join us and learn about what we eat, and how we eat can impact our mental and emotional health.

Watch the recording. Video with ASL-English Interpretation.

REGISTER – In-Person or Virtual – Notre Dame Campus: Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023 – 12:00pm to 1pm, Connected Classroom in EMP, near North Gym.

Hao-Yi is a Registered Dietitian who has been practicing for several years. He has had experience working in acute care, long term care. Currently works out of the Wellness Institute in Primary Care, helping individuals manage and prevent chronic disease. He also provides nutrition coaching for athletic and sport performance. Hao-Yi’s focus is helping individuals achieve their goals using food they enjoy.

In this Kindness to the Earth presentation, Elder Paul Guimond, shares sun wisdom and the impact of the sun on our earth and daily lives. The sun gives life, light and hope, sharing it’s fire with everything around and within us.

The experience is enhanced by the surrounding natural images projected on all four walls at the same time, creating a unique 360º experience in the Immersion Room.

Watch the recording. Includes ASL-English Interpretation.

Register: In-Person or Virtual, Thursday, November 23, 2023, 12 to 1pm, Immersion Room, GM33, Notre Dame Campus

Paul Guimond is part of the Turtle Clan and his spirit name is Okonace (Little Eagle Bone). He and his wife Kim have three children, 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Paul is a Sundance Bundle Carrier (Chief), Sweat Lodge Bundle Carrier (Water drum) and Dark Room Bundle Carrier. He studied Counselling Skills at the University of Manitoba. In Sagkeeng, Paul sat on Chief & Council for 20 years and served as the School Board Chairman for ten years. He is an active elder with Addictions Foundation of Manitoba and Sagkeeng Child & Family Services, offering healing, spiritual growth and personal development through ceremony, programming and establishing healthy relationships. Paul is also a certified coach in hockey, baseball and lacrosse. Paul joined the Elder-in-Residence Program at Red River College Polytechnic in 2018.

Delve into the world of pollinators, discovering how pollinators came to be, what they are, and what they need to survive. Learn what you can do to help support your native pollinator communities, showing your kindness to the environment and the future of our ecosystems.

Learn how to get engaged in the conversation surrounding pollinator conservation and highlight pollinator importance to your friends and family. Small acts can make a world of a difference to these pillars of Manitoban ecosystems!

Watch the recording. Includes ASL-English Interpretation.

REGISTER – Virtual presentation, Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 12pm to 1pm. NOTE: Link will be emailed separately closer to the event.

Presenter: Syd Shukla-Bergen BSc, is a Master of Science in Entomology student at the University of Manitoba, studying landscapes effects on pollinator diversity and abundance. For the past several years, she has been working on several pollinator focused projects, all highlighting pollinators roles in the environment, the need for their conservation, and highlighting the alarming decrease in pollinator abundance and diversity in Manitoba. This year she joined Red River College Polytech as an Academic Student Success Coach at the Steinbach Regional Campus.

Sprinkled with humour and filled with insight, Vassan shares ways to spread kindness through our daily interactions with peers, colleagues and strangers we meet along the way. Learn some strategies to create a safe and respectful space for kindness to thrive.

Watch the recording. Includes ASL-English Interpretation.

Register: In-Person or Virtual, Thursday, November 30, 2023, 12 to 1pm, Immersion Room, GM33, Notre Dame Campus

Vassan Aruljothi: Originating from Malaysia, Vassan has been in Canada for two decades. He started his journey with RRC Polytech at the Winkler campus as an instructor back in 2017.

In 2018, Vassan moved to Winnipeg to assume the position of an Event Coordinator under the College and Public Relations department.

In 2021, Vassan had the privilege to continue his dedication to RRC Polytech with the School of Trades & Technologies as a Program Liaison for a welding program. And finally, in 2022, he moved to his current role as the Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Coordinator for the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program. Since, August 2023, Vassan has accepted a position at the Organizational Development Department as a Consultant.

During all these, Vassan has worked with almost every department on campus, building lasting relationships with each of them.

Representing a group of people and advocating for them has always been Vassan’s passion. He has been a part of multiple Boards of Governance in the past, such as President of the UW Alumni Association, Chair of the Corn and Apple Festival Committee in Morden, Forks Festival Director for Pride Winnipeg, and Secretary for the Tamil Cultural Society of Manitoba, to name a few.

Personally, Vassan is a proud downtown Winnipeg resident, who loves cooking Malaysian food, and hanging out with his wife and two cats.