Events and Programming

In this section, you can read a general description of some of our past outreach services and the thinking behind them.

The thinking behind it.   The Furman Counseling Center's outreach programming is just what the word implies:  it represents our commitment to reach out beyond our office walls to the Barnard community.   In presenting our psychoeducational workshops, seminars, and events, we have the goal of helping Barnard students be as strong and self-aware as possible. If we can help students learn about stress management before they get too stressed-out, about eating problems before they get too caught up in their diets, about getting help for depression before they've been depressed all semester, then we can help keep small problems from becoming larger. 

We target community issues as well as individual issues with our outreach program, and one of the most important is diversity.  We consider attention to diversity issues -- whether they relate to race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or class -- to be centrally relevant to our mission as a service.  Given the impact of racism, sexism, heterosexism and other biases on self-esteem, personal development, and interpersonal dynamics, it seems self-evident to us that this would be so.