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Lunch with Chef... Mariana Claro
In the realm of Health and Well-being, we challenge you to a cooking class with our guest, Chef Mariana Claro. At this lunch, we will learn the following menu: Garden Fish, Deconstructed Bacalhau à Brás, and Ricotta Mousse with Pumpkin Jam.
24.01.2024
Origami Session - 3rd Edition
Art with functionality... prepare yourself for a new challenge! What will it be? Considered a Japanese art form, Origami involves creating small sculptures by folding paper. Its benefits are vast, ranging from stimulating brain areas such as memory and language to cognitive function!
06.02.2024
DepilConcept Massages
Need to relax? This event is for you. DepilConcept will offer 4 facial cleanses and 4 body massages. Duration: 15 minutes each.
14.02.2024
Lunch with... Team Bacalhau!
In the context of Health and Well-being and following the success of the first session, we challenge you to another cooking class, but this time with the house team! The newly formed Bacalhau Team will present a surprise menu! We promise good food and lots of fun.
23.02.2024
Trapilho Session - 2nd Edition
From stitch to stitch, making mistakes and repeating until perfect are aspects we experience throughout our lives. The same applies to crochet. Using a type of yarn (trapilho) and a hook, through trial and error, we will create something unique, handcrafted, and made by us. We will learn new stitches.
28.02.2024
Paper Flowers Session
Besides being a fun activity, making paper flowers can serve as a therapy to relieve stress and anxiety. With a bit of practice and creativity, it's possible to create amazing and personalised paper flower arrangements. Paper flowers are also a sustainable option to replace natural flowers on some occasions.
06.03.2024
DepilConcept - Massage or Facial Cleanse - 2nd Edition
Need to unwind? This event is for you. DepilConcept will offer 12 facial cleanses and 12 body massages. Those who have already had a massage or facial cleanse in the 1st edition cannot repeat the same service to give others a chance. Thank you. Duration: 15 minutes each.
13.03.2024
Gardening Session
Come celebrate Arbor Day / International Day of Forests by planting a tree. Contribute to a greener and more sustainable world. Protecting biodiversity and preserving our forests promotes the health and well-being of everyone—people, animals, and plants—aligned with the global concept of “One Health.”
21.03.2024
Fit Box
Need to relieve and discharge bad energy? Come and try a Fit Box class, a combination of Kickboxing, gymnastics, aerobics, and martial arts to stimulating music. Bring sportswear.
22.03.2024
Healthy and Sustainable Eating with Dulce Morais Lopes
Come learn tips on how to make things quickly and easily instead of buying them! More health, less pollution.
26.03.2024
Hot Yoga Session
Exercising at high temperatures accelerates the heart rate, helps burn calories, and opens the pores through skin sweating, allowing the body to repair, renew, and detoxify.
05.04.2024
Report by ULusófona Students on Antena 1 Programme
In a commendable initiative demonstrating concern for the well-being of its students, the Lusófona University featured in April's REC - Reporters in the Making programme, broadcast by Antena 1, with a report dedicated to the mental health of university students.
The protagonists of this radio piece are Gonçalo Cabo, Érica Cunha, and João Oliveira, students of the Bachelor's in Communication and Journalism, whose authorship and dedication made this sensitive and relevant approach to such an important topic possible.
10.04.2024
Biodanza Session
Biodanza is a human development system that promotes personal and social health and well-being. Biodanza is practiced regularly with weekly classes in heterogeneous groups. People from different backgrounds, with different training and ages, meet once a week to "refresh" their week with joy and enthusiasm. Due to the heterogeneity of the groups, Biodanza impacts various social areas through the effects it has on its practitioners. There are other ways to practice Biodanza, such as in specific groups. For instance, in business environments, Biodanza can foster well-being among people. Biodanza operates on the principle that establishing good relationships creates individual well-being, not the other way around. Relationships with good communication, assertiveness, boundaries, and clarity are highly likely to be healthy. It's not about liking everyone and being polite but about feeling well, even with those you like less. Biodanza in companies is an excellent way to reduce tensions, harmonise relationships, increase self-confidence and motivation, and enhance personal and professional self-esteem. How is all this achieved in Biodanza classes? That is the great mystery we will only discover by experiencing it. So, here is your invitation.
11.04.2024
Crochet Session
Focusing on a repetitive and enjoyable manual activity is relaxing and boosts dopamine and serotonin levels, hormones associated with well-being and pleasure. The concentration required also helps to forget problems and difficulties, leaving you feeling satisfied and motivated with your new creation.
17.04.2024
Kung Fu Trial Class
The term Kung Fu is generally associated with Chinese martial arts, although its direct translation relates to improvement through practice, a key characteristic of Chinese martial arts. The trial class will be in the Shaolin style, a traditional style in which we develop punching techniques as well as animal techniques, such as snake, praying mantis, eagle, and tiger, as well as weapons like sword, sabre, or staff. Kung Fu practice naturally has a martial aspect but is traditionally developed through sequences that include significant body expression work, resembling choreography. This practice will certainly help work on focus and concentration, as well as being very effective for developing motor coordination, flexibility, and strength.
19.04.2024
Floral Arrangements Session
Floral arrangements have the power to lift our spirits and create a positive atmosphere. Using vibrant and fragrant flowers can transform a space, making it more inviting. Flowers have a direct impact on our mood, reducing stress and anxiety and promoting feelings of happiness and relaxation.
24.04.2024
Lunch with... Flavours of Africa - Team Jindungo
We challenge you to another cooking class, this time journeying to the lands of the Imbondeiro where we will sample traditional African flavours in a delightful dish of 'Catchupa' with a Tuga dessert! Note: Please bring an apron and a kitchen towel.
30.04.2024
Yoga Session
Practising Yoga stimulates bodily and emotional awareness. It helps to better understand the body, control emotions, and recognise how physical and mental health are interconnected.
03.05.2024
Watercolour Workshop - Basic Principles
Painting with watercolours is an active form of meditation that helps to alleviate anxiety and stress. It allows you to focus and concentrate on the present moment, forgetting all life's concerns. No drawing skills required—if you'd like to try painting with watercolours, this workshop is for you! Here, there is no right or wrong, just the act of experimenting!
14.05.2024
Young people, well-being, work, and the future
The widespread concern about the future of young people is more relevant today than ever before. Psychosocial risks in the form of burnout, anxiety, and sadness affect issues such as their well-being and performance.
16.05.2024
Macramé Session
Come explore macramé and its benefits. It promotes mindfulness in a single task. It enhances imagination and creativity. It aids in learning, relaxation, meditation, and rhythm. It helps in treating stress and depression.
22.05.2024
Lunch with... Mariana Guerreiro!
Do you like Alentejo cuisine? Then this event is for you! We will have a true Alentejana teaching us. Menu: Pork à Alentejana and a dessert to be determined.
28.05.2024
Typographic Printing Workshop with Stamps + Artist Book Showcase and Handling
Come celebrate International Environment Day with us as part of Sustainability Days 2024, coordinated by Eco-Schools FE and the BioRG research group in collaboration with Universidade Lusófona Verde PRIMAVERA RUIDOSA. In this session, artist books about birds, created using various printing techniques by students of the Master’s in Visual Arts Teaching at Universidade Lusófona for the 2022/23 academic year, will be discussed, shown, and handled. Considering the current climate crisis and using Rachel Carson’s pioneering book *Silent Spring*—which confronts us with the potential disappearance of birds from our habitat—as a motif, students were invited to choose a bird they observed daily in their area. From extensive research—scientific, artistic, musical, and literary—on the chosen bird, each student created their artist book. Special attention was given to the bird’s song: after recording the sound, it was translated both verbally and graphically through an onomatopoeia. The onomatopoeias, printed with movable type, are a common thread in all these artist books, which offer various visual narratives about the birds they honour. After this showcase and handling session, where various visual narratives and techniques used will be discussed, participants will be invited to choose a bird on the Universidade Lusófona campus and create an onomatopoeia from its song. This onomatopoeia will be typographically printed with stamps. Activity integrated into ReLeCo ART.DS - Socio-Artistic Studies for Decoloniality and Sustainability (Ceied).
05.06.2024
Lunch with... Flavours of Africa - Team Jindungo - 2nd Edition
The Jindungo Team strikes again!! This time we are heading to the warmth of Guinea-Bissau to taste the fantastic Caldo de Mancarra. Caldo de Mancarra is one of the most well-known traditional dishes of Guinean cuisine, and the production of the main ingredient, which names the dish, is very common in this African country, being an essential part of local agriculture. Curious to know what it is? “Mancarra” is the Guinean name for peanuts.
18.06.2024
Ballroom and Folk Dancing
Dancing paves the way for creativity, improvisation, musicality, and bodily expression, breaking monotony. It relieves stress and works on motor coordination, promoting well-being and self-esteem.
25.06.2024
Ballroom and Folk Dancing - 2nd Edition
Dancing paves the way for creativity, improvisation, musicality, and bodily expression, breaking monotony. It relieves stress and works on motor coordination, promoting well-being and self-esteem.
28.06.2024
WeARTolerance: An Arts Programme for Mental Health
The WeARTolerance project, supported by the La Caixa Foundation, is an innovative initiative that combines art and psychology, involving a team of psychologists and researchers from the Lusófona University (COFAC, HEI-Lab). This project aims to combat the stigma associated with mental health and promote understanding of the attitudes of children, adolescents, and adults towards individuals facing difficulties in this area.
29.09.2024
More Mental Health - Mine is Ours
On this year’s World Mental Health Day, the Psychology, Innovation, and Knowledge Service (SPIC) team will host a Webinar aimed at Lusófona University professionals, addressing the themes of mental health, well-being, and self-care.
Because mental health matters, and we can all contribute to improving it. For you and for everyone!
10.10.2024
