Lifestyle Advisors gain valuable hands-on experience in leadership, group facilitation, speaking, peer counseling, marketing, graphics, and outreach by choosing one of 13 service projects. Lifestyle Advisors are Western Students committed to enhancing their own health and the health of their communities. Lifestyle Advisors care about health and about people. Lifestyle Advisors come from all academic majors bringing unique skills and diverse perspectives into their health promotion projects. Lifestyle Advisors give service to the campus and community so that others may maximize their health and well-being for greater personal academic success.
All services are free.
Wellness Speakers Bureau Lifestyle Advisors present interactive, non-judgmental health promotion and prevention programs in campus residences and to other student groups. The Speakers Bureau gives students an opportunity to gain public speaking and group facilitation skills. Students learn to present health information from a positive, pro-active perspective that empowers their peers in making and sustaining healthy choices. Staff from the Student Health Services and Prevention and Wellness Services provide the HIV Peer Counselors with professional training and supervision. This program offers students an opportunity to gain skills in peer counseling and consultation, HIV risk reduction, boundary setting, and the art of referral.