Nyyti’s Tips – Support, Peer Support, Courses and Webinars to Promote Student Wellbeing

Greetings from Nyyti - Mental Health Oraganization for Students

In this newsletter, you’ll find information about our various activities. We offer a wide range of support and activities for students. For those working with students, we provide training on minority stress as well as on the The Eco-Crisis, Our Future and Mental Health online course.

The newsletter also includes information about our new online courses Mind Matters andThe Eco-Crisis, Our Future and Mental Health, both of which have been published in three languages (Finnish, Swedish, and English). You’ll also find information about the Roihu influencer group and the 2026 Students’ Mental Health Week.

An AI assistant called Nyyti has been introduced on the Nyyti.fi website. It greets visitors with the question “How are you doing?” and website visitors can chat with the AI assistant in Finnish. The assistant gives tips, guides users to Nyyti’s activities and materials, and, when needed, encourages seeking help. You can find the assistant at the bottom of our website — go give it a try!

Online courses

Mind Matters online course

The new Mind Matters -online course has been released! This course provides tools to help you promote both your own well-being and that of your fellow students.

The course was produced with the support of a donation from LocalTapiola Ostrobothnia

This new Mind Matters online course provides tools to help you promote both your own well-being and that of your fellow students. After completing the course, you will:

  • Understand what factors affect mental health and feel able to influence both your own and your peers’ mental health and well-being.
  • Recognise situations where you can show compassion toward yourself and your fellow students.
  • Gain tools for talking about difficult issues or concerns and for supporting your peers.
  • Get tips and ideas for strengthening community in higher education and recognise situations where you can help prevent loneliness.
  • Understand that each of us can have an impact on our surroundings – and that your actions matter, too!

Your mind matters – join us to learn how even small actions can improve your own and others' well-being and make studying more meaningful for you and others! You can work through the material on your own or together with others. The course takes about 2–2.5 hours at minimum.

Read more and join us:  www.mindmatters.fi. The course is also available in Finnish at www.mielelläonväliä.fi and inSwedish at www.sinnetarviktigt.fi.

 

The Eco-Crisis, Our Future and Mental Health online course

The Eco-Crisis, Our Future and Mental Health online course material provides information about environmental emotions and strengthening mental well-being in the context of the sustainability crisis.

In addition, the material includes tools for preventing polarization and promoting understanding between people who think differently.

The online course material is designed especially for use in higher education institutions and upper secondary schools. In addition, anyone can explore the course content and apply its exercises in their everyday life or work.

Read more and dive into the world of environmental emotions on our website. The course is also available in Finnish and Swedish.

 

Chats

In the themed chats, participants share thoughts, experiences, and feelings about student life together. You are warmly welcome to join just one chat or, if you like, all of the chats this autumn!

The chats held on Discord are free, low-threshold spaces where you can participate with a nickname without prior registration. Nyytis volunteers/staff are present in the chats, as well as, of course, other students.

The chats are organised on agreed Thursdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Mark the autumn chat dates in your calendar already now  and come online to share thoughts with other students! By clicking the chat title below, you can get more information about that particular chat.

You can find more information about all the chats and a link to Discord on the website.

 

LGBTQIA+ in Higher Education peer support sessions

Welcome to join our English-speaking online safer space hangout!

Hangout is for international LGBTIQA+ students in higher education, and we wish to share the queer joy among every one of you. Hangout is an ideal place to discuss about experiences of minority stress as an international LGBTQIA+ student and share your heart and mind with others.

Student life can be hard but let us all enjoy it with while it lasts – while spreading love and acceptance around us! 

 

Can You Hear Us? Can You See Us? – Queer Students in Higher Education

As part of the QueerMieli project by Nyyti ry, we are collecting student stories during our autumn campaign to support our educational and advocacy work. The aim is to shed light on the experiences of LGBTQIA+ students and increase awareness of minority stress and its impact on well-being.

Your story can take shape as a comic, a drawing, a poem, perhaps a watercolor painting or something else. 

Your story can be big or small, everyday or detailed, abstract or straightforward... Every story is an important gateway to conversations about equality, inclusion, and the effects of minority stress on well-being within the higher education community. You are warmly welcome to share your creative story with us! 

As part of the student story campaign, we are organising workshops. The last workshop will be held on 7 November online on Zoom. Stories created or inspired during these workshops can be submitted for publication during the campaign or kept private as part of your personal creative process. The workshop follows Nyyti’s safer space principles.

Among those who share their story, we will raffle a €100 gift card to the sateenkaarikauppa.fi.

Find out more on our website.

 

Activities in Finnish

You are welcome to participate in the following activities held in Finnish!

  • Peer Support Groups – Support for Mental Well-being and Companionship in the Challenges of Student Life:
    • Loneliness in Mind groups (Yksinäisyys mielessä -ryhmät) Participants meet with other higher education students who experience loneliness to talk, share personal experiences and insights, and give and receive peer support.
    • Men’s Space groups (MiehenTila-ryhmät) - Intended for male students in higher education who wish to share their thoughts about mental challenges and stress with others. More information is available in Finnish on our website.
    • Loneliness group for LGBTIQA+ student (Sateenkaareva yksinäisyys -ryhmä)
  • Peer Sessions
  • Workshops
  • Coffee Sessions, Webinars, and Trainings
    • You are also welcome to join All Kinds of Questions Are Welcome!
    • Webinar: Digital Settings and Support for Learning Difficulties – 13 November 2025 - We will organize the webinar Digital Settings and Support for Learning Difficulties online via Zoom on Thursday, 13 November 2025, from 16:00–17:15.
    • Trainings for Actives in Student Organisations - Our training for  student organisations provides tools to better consider diversity among students in terms of gender, sexual orientation, and relationship forms. We explore minority stress and its effects on well-being, as well as ways to promote inclusion in event planning.
    • Trainings for Personnel in Higher Education - Our training for personnel in higher education increases awareness of minority stress; discriminatory structures fueling it and its effects on students’ well-being. We will look into ways to promote inclusion and non-discrimination in teaching and student services.

More information is available in Finnish on our website.

The group is inteded for LGBTIQA+ students in higher education who want to reflect on their experiences of loneliness and related emotions, and to find new perspectives and insights together with others in the group. 

More information is available in Finnish on our website

(Kaikki kysymykset sallittu!) morning coffee sessions, held three Friday mornings in a row in November.

During these relaxed sessions, you can ask questions about LGBTIQA+-specific topics or inclusion in the student community, share your thoughts, or simply listen to others’ wise reflections and discussions aiming to improve our imperfect world.

The morning coffee sessions will be held on Zoom from 8:30–9:00 a.m. on Friday, 7 November, 14 November, and 21 November 2025.

Discussions take place flexibly in Finnish, Swedish, and/or English depending on participants. Read more and register online.

The webinar will be held in Finnish. More information is available in Finnish on our website.

This training will next be held in Finnish on 27 November 2025. More information is available on our website.

This training is offered in Finnish on November 28, 2025.  

More information is available on our website.

  • Support Discussions - One-on-one support sessions with a low threshold. These support discussions are for anyone who wants to reflect on life’s questions, both deep and everyday. Read more in Finnish on our website.
  • Roihu – The Influencer Group

Students, do you want to influence student mental health? Do you want to change the world? Join the Roihu Influencer Group!

The Roihu group gives you the opportunity to influence mental health issues together with other students. The activities are open to all higher education students and conducted in Finnish.Bring your ideas, and let’s make student life more mentally healthy together!

The group operates on Discord, and we meet online once a month.

Read more in Finnish and register via our website.

 

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Metropolia Student Wellbeing Services
Antti Äijänen