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OCA wellbeing: On self-care
Posted: 13/08/20 09:47 |
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Increasing online presence may result in online fatigue with visual and somatic symptoms. To Self- care and to be aware of changing habits and maladaptive behaviour patterns may overcome not only chronic ‘online’ disease but also negative impact on concentration, mood and emotions.
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Virtual study event: NO SHOW, MA Fine Art 2020
Posted: 24/07/20 09:27 |
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Join students from the MA Fine Art cohort along with tutor Hayley Lock to view and discuss the work made for NO SHOW, the first virtual exhibition held by the OCA. Wednesday 29 July 6pm – 8pm
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OCA wellbeing: Community in lockdown
Posted: 23/07/20 09:15 |
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Miranda shares what she has found helpful during the pandemic so far. Miranda is new to the Student Services Team at OCA, and has had the challenge of joining the OCA ‘virtually’ during the lockdown period!
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OCA wellbeing: Pets
Posted: 16/07/20 09:51 |
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I have settled reasonably well into life in lockdown and I think it’s largely to do with my furry companion. I’ve kept my normal routine of getting up and walking to work, which currently means taking Enzo out and looping back home to log on.
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OCA wellbeing: Not quite art
Posted: 09/07/20 09:56 |
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My relief and support throughout all this has been to immerse myself in a hobby and history in a way I’ve not done before.
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edge zine – Submit by 15 July 2020
Posted: 04/07/20 11:28 |
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The edge-zine team have extended the deadline for submission to 15 July 2020. The theme for the next collaborative issue is Connection and is open to all OCA students, tutors, and alumni.
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Virtual study event: Write where you are
Posted: 03/07/20 09:29 |
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In this workshop we’ll explore the places we inhabit most, the views we see every day, the map we create on our daily walks. We’ll read poems and prose about place and spaces, and pay homage to the ones that we feel both connected to and stuck in.
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OCA wellbeing: Photography
Posted: 02/07/20 09:51 |
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I’d started up an Instagram account a while back, but I’d fallen into posting very sporadically, going months without and not making much of a contribution. So I decided to try out the whole ‘post an image a day’ and use some hashtags to get the message out that although we were in lockdown, we were still here.
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OCA wellbeing: Volunteering
Posted: 25/06/20 09:52 |
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When I drop shopping off some people like to have a distant chat, just general stuff about the weather and how they are coping, while others are very regimented and want their shopping leaving at the end of the drive and they come and collect, everyone is dealing with this pandemic in their own way and has to do what they feel is right, I completely respect that.
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OCA Wellbeing: A trip to the bibliotherapist
Posted: 18/06/20 12:30 |
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Imagine going to the doctor’s and coming out with a prescription – for a good book. It’s really not as daft as it may sound. And what’s more, the notion that our mental wellbeing can be improved by something other than pills is far from new.
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