CAPS Groups and Workshops

This group tends to focus on relationships, emotional intimacy, boundaries, self-awareness and other components of interpersonal process. It provides an opportunity to practice new behaviors within a safe, confidential, and supportive environment where group members learn to interact in a more honest and genuine manner. Students dealing with a variety of personal concerns are appropriate for this group.

In SUU’s Dungeons and Therapy group, members will take on the persona of fictional characters and complete daring adventures across mysterious worlds as in role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, and Quest. Dungeons and Therapy builds in additional elements for challenging group members to set goals and try on new ways of thinking, acting and being that will support and facilitate growth, wellbeing, and success in their lives.

In Dungeons & Therapy, you will work with a therapist to create a fantasy character that is personalized to you and your goals. This character might embody characteristics that are aspirational; qualities that you would like to further develop or which have been challenging for you. On the other hand, you may have goals to connect with yourself and the world more authenticity, embracing and leaning into your personal attributes, motives, identities, likes and dislikes. In this case, you might design a character with characteristics that allow you to embody key aspects of you that you would like to more fully embrace.  DnT story lines will incorporate elements custom designed to support each group member in engaging with their identified goals for group. Within sessions of Dungeons & Therapy, you will interact with other players not only to find treasures, solve puzzles, and converse with enigmatic individuals to foster interpersonal growth - but also to express meaningful parts of yourself. *No previous experience with Dungeons & Dragons or any other RPG is required.

The DBT Foundational Skills Workshops are a series of 6, 50-minute, sequentially organized, experiential-based discussions designed to augment participants’ skills and abilities in mindfulness and distress tolerance. Care has been taken to draw material from the evidence-based practice of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), but the workshops do not constitute comprehensive DBT. Participation is drop-in can attend any of the workshop sessions. This group will be in person. Locations are outlined in this schedule. 

Workshop space is reserved for SUU students. It is NOT open to benefits-eligible SUU employees.

Participants will have the opportunity to learn about their own experience with attachment styles, history of family dynamics, boundary setting, developing trust and vulnerability, and how to navigate the natural ebbs and flows of all types of relationships. The sessions will be semi-structured, providing both education and creating space for sharing of personal experiences if desired.