Spring offerings from the Bureau of Study Counsel will provide a broad range of academic and personal support

What Are You Doing with Your Life?
Every Friday, 9:00-10:30am
5 Linden Street
This group provides opportunities to explore purpose, passion and potential, along with the conflicts and challenges graduate students feel in defining who they are, what they are doing, and where they are going in life.  Limited to graduate stduents. Please call 617-495-2581 to schedule a 30-minute pre-group consultation.

Speaking Up in Class
Three sessions beginning February 20, 1:00-2:30pm
5 Linden Street
This group provides strategies for students who wish to have more of a voice in their classes. Through discussion in a supportive context, the group focuses on increasing self-confidence and managing anxiety in academic settings. Please call 617-495-2581 to schedule a 30-minute pre-group consultation.

Zen and the Art of Student Life
Six Thursdays beginning February 21, 8:30-10:00am
5 Linden Street
Student life can be so non-stop busy that it's easy to lose your sense of center, balance, meaning, and connection. Press "pause" and become more aware and awake to who you are through exercises, meditative practices, and reflective discussions. No prior meditation experience necessary. To register, email SungLim Shin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Attending to Attention
Friday, February 22, 1:00-2:00pm
5 Linden Street
Learn attention skills and strategies that you can practice in your daily student life to deal with impediments to attention.  To register, email Jennifer Hughes at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

What Should I Do? A Workshop for Students Concerned about Someone
Wednesday, February 27, 3:30-5:00pm
5 Linden Street
This workshop offers support and guidance to students concerned about a friend, roommate, teammate, or relative. We will consider whether and how to speak with someone whose interpersonal behavior, drinking, eating, sleeping, exercising, sexual relationships, or other behavior leaves us concerned, and we will explore what our role and responsibility regarding that person should be. No registration required.

Time Management Workshop
Friday, March 1, 1:00-2:30pm
5 Linden Street
This workshop offers students an opportunity to develop and strengthen time management strategies. To register, email Claire Shindler at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Maximizing Your Approach to Learning
Friday, March 8, 1:00-2:30pm
5 Linden Street
This workshop focuses on helping students identify their learning styles and develop learning strategies that work for them. To register, email Claire This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Jennifer Hughes at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Perfectionism: A Double-Edged Sword
Friday, March 15, 1:00-2:30pm
5 Linden Street
Many students struggle with the fine line between striving for excellence and stuffering from perfectionism. This workshop helps students begin to distinguish motivation for healthy achievement from perfectionism and to overcome some of the pitfalls of perfectionism. To register, email Jennifer Hughes at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Procrastination Group
Three Wednesdays beginning March 27, 1:15-2:30pm
5 Linden Street
This group works on understanding the experience of procrastination and on freeing oneself to use one's creative processes in moments when one feels resistant, blocked or paralyzed. Please call 617-495-2581 to schedule a 30-minute pre-group consultation.

Real Talk @ 5 Linden
Every Friday, 4:00-5:30pm
5 Linden Street
A salon where Harvard students gather for down-to-earth conversation about ideas and life on a variety of topics.  Sample topics include creativity, identity, superstition, happiness, and relationships. Stop by and check it out! Refreshments will be served.

Study @ 5 Linden
Tuesdays, 9:00am-4:00pm
Thursdays, 11:00am-5:00pm
A cozy place to study or write all semester long. 

For more information about these and other workshops, please go to www.bsc.harvard.edu.