Skip to main content

Wellness at Northwestern

Educating our students in making healthy decisions that enhance individual success and community well-being

Wellness is an ongoing process and a life-long journey, not a one-time event. Your overall well-being is the result of focusing intentionally and taking action on all eight interconnected dimensions of wellness. Northwestern encourages and supports our students in addressing all eight dimensions of wellness to build everyday habits, that improve quality of life. It may also help individuals live longer, manage current health conditions, and support recovery from illness, injury, and addiction.

Wellness Feature

Reclaiming Your Canvas: Art-Focused Survivor Support Group

program title on a background of paint brushes, tubes, and paint strokes

Wednesdays from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm; Begins April 16, 2025

Reclaiming Your Canvas is a six-week, art-focused support group for Northwestern University students who identify as survivors of sexual violence, stalking, or intimate partner violence. Through engagement in various forms of creative expression, this group will offer a space to explore the nature of survivorship and the self through non-verbal processing. This group will most benefit those already engaged in support services.

To register or ask for more information, email Alexandra at alexandra.araujogonzalez@northwestern.edu 

CLICK TO VIEW FULL SCHEDULE

Wellness in Action

Health Promotion and Wellness

Health Promotion and Wellness (HPaW) is the primary provider of health promotion, education, and prevention programs and services on alcohol, other drugs, and wellness issues for Northwestern University students. HPaW engages students through campus-wide, group, and individual educational initiatives.

Stay Well

Events (Click For More)

Counterfactual Approaches for HIV and Health Disparities Research...

March 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
625 N Michigan Ave

The Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (TC CFAR) is hosting a hybrid seminar featuring Ado Rivera, MD, PhD, an assista...

ADVOCATE Center Launch and Panel Discussion

March 31, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
625 N Michigan Ave

Join the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) for the next Current Issues in LGBTQ Heal...

The Human Rights-Based Approach to Evaluating Interventions

April 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
625 N Michigan Ave

Join the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) for our April Current Issues in LGBTQ Hea...

In Focus

laptop with screen reading wellness coaching
Sign Up for Wellness Coaching

Wellness Coaching is a collaborative, non-judgmental process that can help you identify and achieve your health and wellness goals, balance dimensions of health and wellness, and learn practical skills to improve overall well-being. Coaches work with you to build on your strengths and support you in creating sustainable plans to achieve your wellness goals. 

Visit our Wellness Coaching webpage for further details.