PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: OAD Winter Advisor Week – RSVP’s for Study Abroad Event and new Advisor Self-Care Series Event are open!
As a reminder, RSVP's are out for our networking and creative events for Winter Advisor Week - we need you to RSVP ASAP for those if you haven't so we can get tickets arranged for ice skating and painting supplies delivered for Creativita! The skating event RSVP is due this Monday and our Creativita painting event is due this Thursday!
Also open now is our RSVP for our Study Abroad Zoom event about studying abroad in the pandemic era - so please go ahead and RSVP for that event!
While our planning team was super excited to open our debut of the UIC Advisor Expert series, given availability of our experts, we've decided to move the debut of that series to Advisor Week this March, and we're super excited to be planning that event actively so watch for more information. BUT our open event slot provided us the opportunity to start another one of our really important event series - the Advisor Self-Care and Well-being series....so check out the information we've listed below and RSVP if you would like to join us for this interactive Zoom event. We'll be doing more of these in Spring 2022, so if you can't make it, we'll do more...
Join us for these events:
• It's Our Wonderland: Ice Skating and Holiday Enjoyment Networking Event (December 14th)
4:30 - when we're done o'clock!
We will start our evening together at Millennium Park for ice skating and then go over to the Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza...for those who may only want to do the Christkindlmarket, don't you worry, you can get extra time over there or watch us skate! Ice skaters, we need you to let us know you're interested and want to join us as soon as you can - due to COVID precautions, there are reservations that will need to be made, and if you need skate rental, we need to make sure to reserve the skates for you as well!
Please RSVP at It's Our Wonderland RSVP ASAP, but at latest by Monday, December 6th!
• Return to Winter Wonderland Painting with Creativita (December 20th)
4:00 pm - when we're done o'clock!
Advisors will have an opportunity to paint live on Zoom with our friends at Creativita. We did it last year and we're bringing it back for another round...this is a chance to make a gift for someone special! Again, for proper planning purposes (including mailing supplies for anyone who lives far out from campus or will not be in delivery zones), we need you to RSVP so we can make arrangements for painting supplies. Your OAD Steering Committee members have been working on selecting our painting - we're thinking something Chicago-themed and wintery....have you seen our painters from last year's Cloud Gate paintings? They're wonderful!
Please RSVP for Return to Winter Wonderland Painting by Thursday, December 9th! We would appreciate an RSVP sooner than that, but we know that it make take some time to make plans...
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Please RSVP for these Zoom events:
• UIC Advisor Self-Care and Well-Being Series Event "The Spoon Theory and Spoon Self-Check" Workshop (December 17th)
11:00 am - 12:30
Location: Zoom
The Spoon Theory provides opportunity for us to explore energy management, self-care, and opens opportunity to provide new techniques in these unique times. Join us as we talk about the Spoon Theory, some of its initial applications, and how it has been taken up within well-being and mental health more recently. We will work on an exercise and complete the first steps of The Spoon Self-Check that attendees can build upon post event.
Please RSVP at Advisor Self-Care and Well-Being Series Event "The Spoon Theory and Spoon Self-Check" by EOD Thursday, December 16th!
• UIC Study Abroad and Global Engagement presents "Return to Study Abroad and Travel in the Covid-19 Era" - (December 21st)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Join us as we learn more about the policies, procedures and expectations for studying and travel abroad in this COVID-19 era for the UIC Study Abroad Office and Global Engagement.
Please RSVP at UIC Study Abroad and Global Engagement Winter Advisor Week Event by Monday, December 20th!