Coffeesations with Your Counselors

Effective communication is more than just choosing the right words—it’s about making sure your message is heard and understood. In this episode, we explore the key elements of clear and impactful communication, from identifying your communication style to navigating difficult conversations with confidence.

We’ll discuss practical strategies for active listening, setting boundaries, and improving digital communication in an era where texts and social media can make or break connections. Whether you're struggling with group work, personal relationships, or professional interactions, this episode will help you communicate more effectively and with purpose.

Coffeesations with Your Counselors is back!

For our first episode in Season 2, one of our OGC counselors, Dr. Aaron Lumbao, talks about Play Therapy and some remarkable insights on how this approach can support your mental health as students.

This episode is a must-listen for future psychologists, counselors, or self-development enthusiasts!

We always hear the importance of being kind to ourselves, yet it seems to be a really challenging thing to do. A famous group shares with us the message of embracing the way we lived in the past, even if it was harsh or bad. We are happy to share in this episode an appreciation for BTS while looking at the Psychology of their songs and how it connects with us on a personal level. 

As we start with the year, we continue our Relationship Series Episodes. We get to have an awesome discussion with one of our colleagues and friends, Brian Barretto as we discuss relationships. He shares with us his insights and experiences particularly on the difficulties and the myths in a LGBTQIA+ relationship. He also talks about the importance of a safe space for relationships to grow and develop. 

It hurts because we love. Three stories of heartbreak, healing, and growth. In this episode, we feature stories from our students of healing from a heartbreak. We also explore questions we ask ourselves in times of suffering and heartbreak: Why do we ask ourselves, "What did i do wrong?" "How can i move forward despite the heartbreak?" 

As we are close to the end of the year, we are excited to share with everyone a new series of episodes that we have planned and are preparing for you, our students, and listeners. We are starting the Relationship Series with a discussion about what can help and challenges to face in a new relationship. We are joined today by one of our colleagues in the Ateneo, Janine Sy. She openly discusses her own experiences and insight on how a new relationship can be according to her own relationship with her partner. She also talks about how it’s like to start a new relationship in this pandemic which can really be challenging. 

With the incoming new school year, we continue to face the challenges brought upon by the pandemic. We've learned a lot from our previous experience in the past year and we continue to adapt as we all go through this experience together. We are joined today by one of our students, Mavi Avendaño who has experienced the online college setup last year. We'll talk about the online school year that was, what we lost, what we gained, and what can be helpful in navigating the Ateneo college journey.

With the challenges of not being able to move a lot, we'll discuss in this episode the challenges and importance of body movement as well as tips on how we can keep our body engaged even during the pandemic! Our guest in this episode is one of our colleagues and an expert in movement, Ms. Ivy Martinez. She gets to share with us the practical ways of moving and how it can also help our minds based from her knowledge of the matter and her own experiences.  

This episode is all about ...do-re-mi-usic! We get to talk about the therapeutic and healing outcomes of listening to music as well as creating it! We are joined by our friend and colleague in this episode, Ms. Faith Moral to share with us her research as well as how music can be good for our well-being!