Fall semester topics
- Week 36. Benefits of volunteer work
- Week 37. Living with learning disabilities
- Week 38. Personality disorders
- Week 39. Setting up healthy boundaries
- Week 40. Learning to improve concentration
- Week 41. Suicide prevention – learning to help
- Week 42. Phobias – dealing with fears
- Week 43. Sleep disorders
- Week 44. Sexuality – the biochemistry
- Week 45. Addictive relationships
- Week 46. UNESCO day of tolerance
- Week 47. Improving self-confidence
- Week 48. Helping friends or others in distress
- Week 49. World AIDS day – living with illness
- Week 50. Value based decision making
- Week 51. Being assertive in a diverse world
- Week 52. Spirituality – spiritual growth
- Week 1. Dynamics of intro- & extraverts
- Week 2. Orientation – a career that fits!
- Week 3. Living in a foreign country
- Week 4. Overcoming test anxiety
- Week 5. Understanding dysfunction in a family
- Week 6. Smoking – giving up methods
- Week 7. Valentine’s day – commitment
- Week 8. Communication – focusing on skills
- Week 9. Domestic violence
- Week 10. Work-life balance – expectations
- Week 11. Loneliness and feeling alone
- Week 12. Understanding of joy and happiness
- Week 13. Racial discrimination
- Week 14. PTSD
- Week 15. World health day
- Week 16. Panic disorders
- Week 17. Academic honesty – authenticity
- Week 18. Death and dying
- Week 19. Job interviews - good impression
- Week 20. Characteristic of sound families
- Week 21. Celebrating cultural diversity
- Week 22. Growing up in a single parent home
- Week 23. Act of love (self and others)
- Week 24. Focusing on personality tests
- Week 25. Childhood traumas
- Week 26. Relating to the elderly
- Week 27. Grief – dealing with loss
- Week 28. Drug and substance abuse
- Week 29. Dealing with depression
- Week 30. Procrastination
- Week 31. Recovering from shame and guilt
- Week 32. Perfectionism
- Week 33. First generation university students
- Week 34. Compulsive obsessive behaviors
- Week 35. Body image – eating disorders
- Week 36. School bullying - mobbing concerns
Spring semester topics
Benefits of charity and volunteer work
Volunteering could bring quite a few benefits to one's life experience. It can open doors inside and outside. It boils down to determination.
In today's contemporary world, we tend to grow vary of other people's needs and various social or environmental problems.
Among others, this process is contributed to information flooding - as we are bombarded with such
high intensity of information and harshness that we get tired of looking - and slowly drift into non-action or partial
passivity. Eventually with this non-action mentality, we end up building an inner wall of insensitivity towards the outside world.
Although we still experience a wide range of emotions and moved by others, we just won't care that much to take action in the
end.
Counter-productive thoughts usually accompany such passive attitude (such as I can't solve his/her problem, I am too weak, poor,
unskilled, tired...and so on and on.) If you're mind is revolving around such discouraging thoughts, experts say you should fight
them or disregard them. Adapt an attitude that is based on your own moral values, and commit yourself to realize what you believe in.
We would like to encourage you to shake off this inner resistance and move into action. There are many organization and places
in Budapest where they would love to have YOU for an hour, half-a-day service or longer. Modern social sciences agree that it is best if we remain integrative open minded thinkers.
Below, read more about the mental health benefits of helping others: