New Workshop; Making Sense of Your Worth

A new eight-week workshop designed to help define one’s worth will be coming to Oklahoma Christian University this fall. Initiated by Cindy Lee through the Halo Project, she aims to help participants make sense of their worth through self-reflection and psycho-educational methods.

Halo’s involvement with Oklahoma Christian helps extend Halo’s mission of healing through connection by involving students and staff in its programs, workshops and training. Halo Project’s mission offers advanced trauma-informed intervention training, such as Trust-Based Relational Intervention, which is highly relevant to professionals working with vulnerable populations, including students and families.

Making Sense of Your Worth is an eight-week program designed to empower and inspire participants. Sessions will be held once a week for two hours in the new counseling center, located in the renovated former mail room.

Kayla Tur, counseling center administrative assistant, and counselor Johanna Lange will be the two primary facilitators. Interns at the counseling center also serve resident assistants (RAs) on campus.Prospective interns are eligible to join as long as no conflicts of interest exist, which depends on the sign-up list.

“It’s very psycho-educational. So it’s a lot of self-reflection. You’ll be working on a workbook, through the workbook we’ll have a PowerPoint,” Tur said. “There will be some communicating in the group but a lot of self-reflection and inner work”.

The workshops are designed to keep students busy while also considering their self-worth. Throughout the sessions, participants will have activities such as painting and crafts to help take the pressure off the heavy topics. To make the participants feel comfortable, drinks and snacks are welcome.

“Since it is two hours, you can bring drinks and snacks if you want. They will be working the whole time on painting so that you can do things with your hands…there will be little crafting things that are a part of it, it is just very interactive,” Tur said.

With growing interest among male students, Tur and Lange have expanded the program to include dedicated sessions and group meetings designed for men. These groups aim to provide a supportive environment where male participants can engage in meaningful reflection, share challenges unique to their experiences, and explore concepts of self-worth in ways that resonate with them.

“We already have a handful of males who have also shown interest, so we will start a group as soon as possible. Probably in like half a month from now we’ll have one going,” Tur said.By fostering self-reflection and personal growth, Making Sense of Your Worth seeks to provide students with tools to better understand their value. As interest continues to grow, the program is expanding to meet the diverse needs of the Oklahoma Christian community.