Programme
WeThrive: Evidence-based nourishment for university students
Thriving @ HKU: Open Doors to Happiness
Near the International Day of Happiness, our WeThrive team at T&LEMU presented the campus campaign Thriving @ HKU: Open Doors to Happiness, in collaboration with the Common Core and CEDARS. Three groups of student ambassadors led interactive activities (i.e., card-based storytelling game, role-play, and AI art creation) around the theme of academic resilience and social resilience. Many positive resonances were received from students throughout the campaign … read more
WeThrive Fall Programme
The WeThrive Fall programme offered theoretical underpinnings of scientific concepts and cutting-edge skills that can be used right away in academic life. In the fall batch led by T&LEMU Director Dr. Maggie Zhao with the assistance of WeThrive Tutor Jolin Tang, multiple key positive psychology concepts were contextualised into academic study and life, supported by practical techniques to empower students in building life-long resilience and thriving.
WeThrive Summer Programme
The WeThrive Summer programme offered students interactive lectures, practical tips, and experiential learning opportunities to contribute to wider community. It was successfully held from June to July 2022. T&LEMU Director Dr. Maggie Zhao provided scientific insights covering character strengths, ingredients to happiness and productivity, resilience, emotions, positive relationship, and meaning in life, etc.
WeThrive Gathering
The WeThrive gathering Happiness in Lights was successfully held to savour 2022 and prospect 2023 on December 22. HKU students gained new scientific insights on thriving from the perspective of positive psychology. They seized the unique opportunities to co-create with peers in a cosy space. T&LEMU Director Dr. Maggie Zhao and WeThrive tutor Jolin Tang led carefully-designed activities and navigated students to relax, rejuvenate, and reflect in a scientific way.
WeThrive Workshop: Open Doors to Happiness
The WeThrive workshop Open Doors to Happiness: Navigating University Life Using Insights from Positive Psychology featured quality, usefulness, and highly relevance for university students in the beginning of the 2022-23 academic year. T&LEMU Director Dr. Maggie Zhao offered students scientific insights and practical strategies academically and non-academically. Student ambassadors shared their experience about how they have navigated common university pressure.
WeThrive Taster
The WeThrive Taster, led by T&LEMU Director Dr. Maggie Zhao, was designed to equip students with the knowledge and practical skills that cultivate positive emotions, optimistic mindset, and effective communication. Concepts such as Thinking Traps, Character Strengths, and Active Constructive Responding have been demonstrated in creative role plays. The Taster has received positive feedback from all student participants.
Feedback from Student Voices
There is real science, there are real life examples, and there are solutions. The organisation is just perfect (splitting into rooms, virtual gallery…). I truly appreciate the work, heart and love! Thank you so much and the programme really made my summer!
― a student participant from Faculty of Science
I am lucky to have been a part of it and would highly recommend this course to everyone! If I am given the opportunity to be a student ambassador again, I will definitely take it.
― a student partner
Effectiveness of WeThrive
The WeThrive programme is shown to be of good value to student participants. Almost all of them would like to recommend the programme to others.
Compared to the control group, students who participated in the WeThrive programme have demonstrated and sustained a higher level of thriving after completing the programme.