Texas Tech University

Available Programs & Workshops

A Guide to Campus Safety & Resources ⛑️

Campus Safety & Resources (also known as RISE 101) is offered as a condensed (30-minute), standard (50-minute), or an extended (90-minute) presentation.

This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:

  • Physical wellness: Contraceptives and STIs
  • Intellectual wellness: Alcohol ABV, BAC, safer drinking tips, how to spot alcohol poisoning, and how to help
  • Social wellness: Consent, Title IX, and reporting
  • Environmental wellness: Bystander intervention and tips for intervening
  • Campus resources

A Guide to Managing Stress 🧠

Stress Management is offered as a condensed (30-minute), standard (50-minute), or an extended (90-minute) presentation.

This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:

  • Stress: The stress curve, acute vs. chronic stress, the process of stress, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and stress in the brain
  • Awareness: The wellness wheel, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
  • Thoughts: Limited vs. growth mindset, affirmations, self-compassion, and gratitude
  • Emotions: Emotions as stimuli, primary and secondary emotions, building a vocabulary using Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions, and empathy
  • Behaviors: Reaction vs. response, mindfulness, coping mechanisms, and sleep
  • Campus resources

Mental Health/Suicide Prevention is only offered as a standard (50-minute) presentation.

This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:

  • Mental health considerations: Symptoms, definitions, and common treatments
  • Support: Evidence-based strategies, self-care, coping mechanisms, and sleep
  • Suicide prevention: Warning signs and how to help
  • Campus resources

A Guide to Being an Active Bystander 👫

Bystander Intervention is offered as a condensed (30-minute), standard (50-minute), or an extended (90-minute) presentation.

This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:

  • Bystanders: Active vs. passive bystanders, and diffusion of responsibility
  • Intervening: Using RAIDERS acronym to intervene, and hazing
  • Intervention within consent, alcohol, and/or drugs: Definitions, incapacitation, and revocation
  • Resources: Reporting and campus resources

 

A Guide to Alcohol and Drug Education 🍻

Combined Alcohol and Other Drugs is offered as an extended (90-minute) presentation.

This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:

  • Alcohol education: Destigmatizing substance use, ABV, BAC, risks, tolerance, alcohol biphasic curve, myopia
  • Alcohol and consent: Definitions, revocation, and incapacitation
  • Drug education: Categories and risks
  • Harm reduction: Safer use and abstinence strategies, signs of an overdose, and bystander intervention
  • Campus resources

 

Alcohol Education is offered as both a condensed (30-minute) and standard (50-minute) presentation.

This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:

  • Alcohol education: Destigmatizing substance use, ABV, BAC, risks, tolerance, alcohol biphasic curve, myopia
  • Alcohol and consent: Definitions, revocation, and incapacitation
  • Harm reduction: Safer use and abstinence strategies, signs of an overdose, and bystander intervention
  • Campus resources

Drug Education is offered as both a condensed (30-minute) and standard (50-minute) presentation.

This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:

  • Stimulants: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
  • Depressants: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
  • Hallucinogens: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
  • Cannabinoids: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
  • Opioids: What they do to the body, effects, risks, and common drug types
  • Harm reduction: Safer use and abstinence strategies, signs of an overdose, and bystander intervention
  • Campus resources

A Guide to Consent 🔐

Consent Education is offered as both a standard (50-minute) and extended (90-minute) presentation.

This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:

  • Consent: Importance, definitions, incapacitation, and revocation
  • Unhealthy relationships: Signs of an unhealthy relationship and interpersonal violence definitions
  • Reporting: Statistics, supportive measures, and methods
  • Intervention: Bystander intervention using the RAIDERS acronym
  • Support: Tips for supporting survivors and pitfalls to avoid
  • Campus resources

A Guide to Sexual Health 🩺

Sexual Health is offered as a condensed (30-minute), standard (50-minute), or an extended (90-minute) presentation.

This presentation covers topics such as but not limited to:

  • Understanding yourself and others: What makes you who you are and anatomy
  • Consent: Definitions, incapacitation, and revocation
  • Contraceptives: Methods, condoms, and TTU resources
  • Sexual transmitted infections (STIs): Types and testing
  • Emotional safety: Dating violence and signs of an unhealthy relationship
  • Reporting: Statistics, importance, supportive measures, and methods

A Guide to Healthy Relationships by One Love Foundation 🤝

Healthy Relationships Workshops from the One Love Foundation are collaborative and interactive discussions featuring a training video in a variety of program lengths.  

Types of One Love workshops offered:

Couplets is a 30-minute workshop built around eight short video clips (about 20 seconds each) that highlight both healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors.

 During this workshop, participants will:

    • Recognize signs of healthy and unhealthy behaviors in friendships and dating relationships
    • Apply these insights to real-life scenarios
    • Compare and contrast similar behaviors to identify when healthy interactions may cross into unhealthy territory

MVP is a 50-minute workshop designed to challenge common stereotypes about dating and relationships. 

 During this workshop, participants will:

    • Recognize unhealthy relationship behaviors
    • Understand how these patterns can disrupt daily life
    • Challenge traditional stereotypes surrounding relationship abuse
    • Gain tools and strategies for supporting a friend who may be in an unhealthy relationship

Road Trip is a 50-minute workshop centered on a conversation between friends about romantic relationship behaviors.

 During this workshop, participants will:

    • Identify healthy and unhealthy behaviors in both friendships and romantic relationships
    • Recognize that unhealthy patterns occur in friendships as well as romantic relationships
    • Gain practical tools for initiating conversations with friends about unhealthy behaviors in their relationships

Behind the Post is offered as a 30-minute or 50-minute workshop that explores how social media can present misleading depictions of relationships and contribute to the difficulty of leaving an unhealthy one.

Content Warning: This workshop contains sensitive material, including depictions of relationship violence.

During this workshop, participants will:

    • Learn to identify healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors
    • Examine how social media can distort perceptions of relationships
    • Understand the role social media can play in maintaining unhealthy dynamics
    • Recognize that unhealthy behaviors can occur on both sides of a relationship, and that one partner’s actions do not justify abuse
    • Gain tools and strategies for supporting a friend who may be in an unhealthy relationship

Love Labyrinth is offered as a 30-minute or 50-minute workshop exploring dating violence and the cycle of abuse.

Content Warning: This workshop contains sensitive material, including depictions of relationship violence.

During this workshop, participants will:

    • Identify unhealthy relationship behaviors
    • Recognize when unhealthy behaviors have crossed the line into abuse
    • Understand the cycle of abuse
    • Gain tools and strategies for supporting a friend who may be in an unhealthy or abusive relationship

Escalation is offered as a 90-minute workshop that takes an in-depth look at dating violence and abuse. This workshop addresses the most severe forms of dating violence and includes a depiction of homicide within the context of an abusive relationship.

Content Warning: This workshop contains sensitive material, including depictions of relationship violence and homicide.

During this workshop, participants will:

    • Learn to recognize the warning signs of dating violence and abusive behaviors
    • Explore how abuse can escalate over time
    • Understand the emotional, social, and safety impacts of dating violence
    • Gain tools and strategies for supporting someone who may be experiencing abuse

Fight Night is offered as a 30-minute or 50-minute workshop that explores group pressure to engage in unhealthy behaviors and how to support a friend in resisting that pressure.

Content Warning: This workshop contains depictions of violence.

During this workshop, participants will:

    • Learn to identify signs of unhealthy relationship behaviors in friendships
    • Gain practical tools for helping a friend who may be in an unhealthy relationship
    • Identify resources to navigate and resist group pressure

 To request a workshop or presentation, please visit our request page.