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Mansfield Hall helps students develop independent living skills in our integrated, high-quality residence Hall. Over the course of their enrollment students learn independent living skills such as scheduling, financial management, practical culinary skills, and collaborative-living through active participation in the community.
Mansfield Hall employs dynamic Student Life Coaches to provide direct support, coaching, and mentoring. Under the supervision of the Director of Student Life, these Coaches provide guidance and support throughout a student’s experience at Mansfield Hall.
In addition to Student Life Coaches, a Life Skills Coach works directly with students to help them develop their own set of independent living skills. This could be budgeting, apartment seeking, medication management, shopping, cooking, cleaning – or whatever the next Adulting 101 skill a student is hoping to practice and master.
Our students learn best through direct instruction, pre- and post-processing, in vivo (in-the-moment) support, modeling, and real-world hands-on experiences and opportunities for independent practice.
Learn more about our other Four Core Areas:
Obsessed with a crafty queen! Aven and life skills coach Juneau working on her Halloween costume 🎃👻.
PS. Burlington students, be sure to check out sewing club!
Sometimes a 5K is called a fun run- can confirm that much fun was had by all! 🏃
We`re doing our best to soak up these last fall days- it was well worth the effort this hike took!
There’s some fascinating research coming out surrounding the possible links between neurodivergence, hyper mobility, and regulation right now.
The overall conversation is surrounding the idea that neurodivergent folks are 4 times more likely to have generalized hypermoblity- a connective tissue disorder where the ligaments in the body are looser and thusly have to effort extra hard to hold everything in the body together. This additional effort the body has to exert daily to keep everything in order may be linked to a host of things, all pointing to the idea that these folks systems are working overtime to keep regulated.
Exercise, especially strength training can help ease this strain on the body by strengthening the muscles around the ligaments, which can help ease the job of those ligaments with consistent training over time.
Mansfield Hall offers students the opportunity to join in for two structured workouts a week focused on upper and lower body as well as core stability for this reason!
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You could say this event was a smashing success!
Eugene students enjoyed pumpkin launching over the weekend. 🎃
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