Exploration Week

Date

Title

Time

ILP Unit(s)

7/9/2020 (Mon)

11:30-12:30

1 each

(Physical Fitness & Well-being)

8/9/2020 (Tue)

Innovative Ways to Think about Career Future

1.5

(Intellectual Development & Entrepreneurship)

9/9/2020 (Wed)

Re-design Hostel Experience

15:00-17:30

2.5

(Residential Education)

大學生活不能錯過的事情
Tips Every First Year Student Should Know - Plan for University Life

1

(Social and Emotional Well-being)

身心康盛鬆弛技巧Stretching for Relaxation

1.5

(Physical Fitness & Well-being)

10/9/2020 (Thu)

Lingnan C. Connects - "Care for Community - See the Connections"

16:30-17:30

1

(Civic Education & Leadership Development)

15/9/2020 (Tue)

Global Inclusive Leadership Program - Induction Seminar: Never Too Young To Lead! Are you Ready?

14:30-16:30

2

(Residential Education)

Fostering Emotional Resilience in Difficult Times

1

(Social and Emotional Well-being)

健體工作坊
Fitness Workshop

1 each

(Physical Fitness & Well-being)

16/9/2020 (Wed)

豐盛大學生活與就業規劃
Fulfilling University Life & Career Planning (Seminar)

16:30-18:00

1.5

(Intellectual Development & Entrepreneurship)

17/9/2020 (Thu)

The Magic of Appreciation

15:00-16:00

1

(Social and Emotional Well-being)

奧比斯香港 – 亮麗眼睛守護者計劃
Briefing and Training Session – 
Orbis Hong Kong – Eye Brightening Advocate Programme

1.5

(Civic Education & Leadership Development)

18/9/2020 (Fri)

Introduction to Lingnan Language Enhancement Initiative (L²EI)

14:30-15:30

1

(Residential Education)

健體工作坊
Fitness Workshop 

This workshop is designed to teach students to understand the methods of training the body muscles and theories of controlling weight. The instructor will show the students different training procedures in response to the individual needs and abilities of the students. After completing this workshop, students are qualified to use the university’s fitness room.

At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:
1. point out the safety guidelines and training theories of lifting;
2. practice the most suitable sets of training and lifting equipment; and 
3. Establish regular exercise habit.    

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Innovative Ways to Think about Career Future 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us stayed at home and kept social distancing. You may need to re-think the way we live and how to encounter from many uncertainties and problems. Could we be able to keep our minds more positive and develop robust creativity during the bad days? How to twist the problems to be our opportunities? Two outstanding Lingnan alumni will tell you their stories and their faiths, creativity and problem-solving skills. 

At the end of the talk, students will be able to:
1. Learn to be positive in encountering any problems;
2. Develop creativity and problem-solving skills; and
3. Develop social network.

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Re-design Hostel Experience 

Innovation and entrepreneurial learning is one of the methods that teaches students to envision creative solutions to problems and enables them to overcome challenges, be decisive, take risks and accept responsibility for their outcomes. The design challenge this time is to allow students to look for creative solutions in dealing with certain challenges they faced in the hostel. The facilitating team will use an innovative approach in the workshop which empowers even the most traditional thinker to develop new, innovative solutions to the problem at hand.

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大學生活不能錯過的事情
Tips Every First Year Student Should Know - Plan for University Life

University life can be the most rewarding and inspiring journey in one's life. It all begins with the first step - having a vision to make a fulfilling University life.  This talk will guide you step by step in how to achieve your vision by writing your mission statement, setting priority and setting goals and action plan for your four years University life.

At the end of the seminar, students will be able to: 
1. Understand the importance of setting goals in University life;
2. Acquire practical experience in setting goals; and
3. Explore the hurdles in achieving the goals and find out solutions to solve them.

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身心康盛鬆弛技巧
Stretching for Relaxation

Relaxation techniques can reduce stress symptoms and help you enjoy a better quality of life. The speaker from Physical Fitness Association of Hong Kong, China will introduce the theory and show you the proper posture. So, you can relax when you feel stress.

At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:
 1. Understand the basic concept of stretching for relaxation;
 2. Know how to stretch in a correct posture; and
 3. Share the idea with family members and friends.

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Lingnan C. Connects – “Care for Community – See the Connections”

With the University’s motto "Education for Service", community service is always an integral part of campus life.  The University always tries every means to provide students opportunities to care for the welfare of the community. Come to know more how we join hands with our students, staff, and alumni to connect their community service experiences, together with their own potential and lifelong goal to serve the society as a whole.

At the end of the talk, students will be able to:
1. Acquire an understanding towards the Lingnan C.Connects Programme;
2. Gain insights from students' fruitful experiences on community services; and
3. Elevate the interest and commitment towards volunteerism.

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Global Inclusive Leadership Program - Induction Seminar: Never Too Young To Lead! Are You Ready?

Here is a global community for nurturing future leaders of global citizenship, which is built upon global partnerships and collaboration across different sectors, world-class universities, business and industry.  

Here young people from different social and cultural background, different disciplines across science and humanities, can dream and work together to come up with innovative ideas for building their future cities and make a better world. 

At the end of the training session, students will be able to:
1. Have a basic understanding of values-based leadership;
2. Embark on the individual self-discovery leadership journeys; 
3. Lead leadership roundtables and facilitate team growth & development;
4. Form a global community that will constantly encourage and support one another; and
5. Engage in a range of leadership in action activities and be equipped to develop next-generation leaders.
 

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Fostering Emotional Resilience in Difficult Times

Our emotions are easily affected by events happening around us, many students feel stressful, distress and uncertain during the epidemic, adjusting to University life and facing all the new changes. In this seminar, participants will learn about mindfulness and emotions, how to nourish emotional resilience with mindfulness practice.

At the end of the seminar, students will be able to: 
1. Understand what is mindfulness;
2. Know the emotions wheel; and
3. Apply mindfulness in fostering emotional resilience in difficult times.

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健體工作坊
Fitness Workshop

This workshop is designed to teach students to understand the methods of training the body muscles and theories of controlling weight. The instructor will show the students different training procedures in response to the individual needs and abilities of the students. After completing this workshop, students are qualified to use the university’s fitness room.

At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:
1. point out the safety guidelines and training theories of lifting;
2. practice the most suitable sets of training and lifting equipment; and 
3. Establish regular exercise habit.    

Back to programme schedule

豐盛大學生活與就業規劃
Fulfilling University Life & Career Planning (Seminar)

Through the sharing of the guest speaker, an outstanding alumnus, with past experience, students would understand about how to plan and prepare for their future careers during their university stage as well as equipping themselves with necessary skills for future workplace.

At the end of the seminar, students will be able to: 
1. Understand more about the importance of university life and career planning;
2. Know how to equip yourself with necessary skills for future careers; and
3. Step forward to start the planning of university life and careers.

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The Magic of Appreciation

Conflict, misunderstanding and disputes are commonly seen among new students, especially in the campus where people come from a diverse background. This seminar introduces the application of gratitude in our day to day life, in building relationship with new friends, and in managing stress in life. Participants will learn practical ways to apply it in the campus life.

At the end of the seminar, students will be able to: 
1. Understand the health benefits of expressing gratitude;
2. The scientific basis of gratitude; and
3. Practical ways to apply gratitude in University life

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奧比斯香港 – 亮麗眼睛守護者計劃
Briefing and Training Session – 
Orbis Hong Kong – Eye Brightening Advocate Programme

Orbis believes everyone deserves functioning eyesight regardless of their age, income or ethnic background.  To increase awareness on eye health, Orbis is now recruiting Eye Brightening Advocates, to help assimilate eyecare awareness at every level of local society.  Eye Brightening Advocates can participate in many volunteer experiences of Orbis and will add a sense of accomplishment to one’s positive energy!  Eye Brightening Advocates may have the chance to help out with office clerical work, or using one’s creativity to influence others on the internet, or deliver eyecare talk to the community, etc.  

This Briefing and Training Session of the Orbis Hong Kong – Eye Brightening Advocate Programme is designed to facilitate interested parties in knowing more about the background of Orbis Hong Kong, as well as background and details of the Eye Brightening Advocates Programme.  This session is especially suitable to students who have an initial interest in the Orbis Eye Brightening Advocate Programme and wish to have an glimpse of the Programme before joining.

At the end of the programme, students will be able to:
1. Recognise the background of Orbis Hong Kong as well as the services that they are offering; 
2. Understand the background, details and operation of the Orbis Hong Kong – Eye Brightening Advocate Programme; and
3. Elevate the interest and commitment towards volunteerism.

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Introduction to Lingnan Language Enhancement Initiative (L²EI)

Lingnan Language Enhancement Initiative (L2EI) is launched to enhance students’ language competency while nurturing multi-lingual learning and cross-cultural appreciation among students.  Under L2EI, the Centre for English and Additional Languages (CEAL)  and the Chinese Language Education and Assessment Centre (CLEAC)  will be organizing programmes to cater for the needs of students. In addition, a new funding scheme: Student-initiated Multi-Cultural and Multi-Lingual Enhancement Programmes Campus Fund (MMCF) is introduced by the Student Services Centre (SSC) to provide students with funding for organizing activities in contribution to language learning and cultural exchange.  The programme will introduce you the deails of L²EI and MMCF.

At the end of the Seminar, studnets will be able to: 
1. Understand more about the Lingnan Language Enhancement Intiative (L²EI);
2. Know how to apply for the Student-initiated Multi-Cultural and Multi-Lingual Enhancement Programmes Campus Fund (MMCF); and
3. Learn about the support from Buddy Scheme@L²EI.

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