H.E.A.R.T Workshop Series

An educational series sponsored by the Department of Counseling and Human Services focused on educating students on healthy dating relationships.

Session 1

Listen to Your Heart: Engaging in Healthy Relationships

-       Explore how students would like to be treated when they are dating somebody

-       Learn about dating abuse through scenarios from people who have been there

-       Identify how dating abuse begins and the consequences of unhealthy dating relationships

Session 2

Pour Your Heart Out: Effective Communication Strategies for Healthy Relationships

-       Explore how we think we should act in a relationship

-       Discuss healthy ways to communicate

Session 3

A Change of Heart: Techniques to Resolve Relationship Conflict

-       Review the cycle of violence

-       Teach 8 essential skills for resolving conflicts

Session 4

A Heart-to-Heart: Talking with Friends about Relationship Trouble

-       Consider why it can be difficult to ask friends for help

-       Describe several ways to support a friend in an unhealthy relationship

-       Connect friends with campus and community resources

Session 5

Lessons You Know by Heart: Staying Safe at College

-       Explain techniques students can use to protect themselves on and off campus

-       Describe tips to decrease the prevalence of violence in relationships

-       Create a safety plan

If you are interested in scheduling a workshop and/or screening for your sorority, fraternity, or campus organization please contact Katherine Bender, Counseling Doctoral Student, at kbender@odu.edu  

Healthy Relationships Screening Events

In an effort to raise college student awareness about healthy intimate relationships, the HEARTS program is pleased to offer a RATE YOUR RELATIONSHIP! screening event.  During the event, participants volunteer to complete a 5 minute questionnaire about a current or past intimate relationship.  Each student who completes the questionnaire meets with one of our trained Masters level or Doctoral level Counseling students to hear the interpreted results.  The RATE YOUR RELATIONSHIP quiz is free and confidential.

As part of the screening event, we also provide literature and resources on healthy relationships and inform participants what to do if they are in an unhealthy relationship or if they have a concern about someone else who may be in an unhealthy relationship.

Our HEARTS team facilitators are excited to offer this screening event to any team, residence hall, sorority, fraternity, or student club.  We schedule events to last 60 or 90 minutes, depending on the request.  In that time we can accommodate 50- 60 students since it generally just takes about 5-7 minutes total for an individual to complete the entire screening process. 

If you are interested in scheduling a RATE YOUR RELATIONSHIP! event today, please contact Katherine M. Bender, Counseling Doctoral Student, at kbender@odu.edu.