Being a college student is stressful.
To quell this stress Brockport had Yvonne Ferreira – an award winning teaching artist – come in for a workshop.
Once students were seated they were told to draw their favorite people, places and things on a sheet of paper, and to remove their shoes (yes one of those incense stick things was burning). After the drawing session Yvonne took the stage and greeted us all with a pretty decent rendition of what I think was a Whitney Houston song.
We went on to awkwardly introduce ourselves to our neighbors , and stretch (also awkwardly) , before Yvonne told us her story. She’s of Trinidadian decent, ancestors came via Ellis Island and her happy place experience involved black coral, sharks and miles of the ocean sea. The silence in the deep blue was one that she’d never experienced before describing how she could hear the beat of her heart and the sound of her breaths only. From that point on, whenever Yvonne felt a stressful situation arising, she would return to that place in the ocean and search for peace.
Yvonne’s keys to her personal happiness were on display for viewing after the session.
Our turns were next.
Yvonne took us on a mental journey to our own respective happy places where we forgot about the stress of our day and enjoyed the serenity of that place. Once we returned from our happy place the session was ending. Yvonne sang another song to us and left us with a few words of wisdom.
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