Past Events

This course includes CPR training for adults, children and babies. It includes choking for conscious and unconscious, adult, children and babies. EpiPen and Naloxone training and certification in AED (automatic external defibrillation). Certification is valid for three years. Wellness@Work will be covering the cost of $80 so it free to attendees.  Registration Registration is full. To be added to the waitlist, please email Tara Hargreaves at hargreat@uoguelph.ca.

A truly heart healthy lifestyle is more than exercise and diet. The third and most important key (according to cardiologists Eliot, Bhat, Ornish and others) is stress management. Yet this component is the most neglected! Learn practical stress management strategies that decrease your risk of cardiovascular disease (especially helpful for those with risk factors of high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, depression, tendency to hold onto anger, or a family history of heart attack or stroke). The workshop includes:

Our brain can become more busy (and more negative thoughts intrude) when we are stressed, tired, or feeling overwhelmed. This experiential Lunch & Learn session shares a variety of research-based tips and approaches for calming worry, anxious thoughts, and a busy brain. The workshop includes:

This session was rescheduled from May 7 to May 14. 

Join us for this art-based, virtual workshop as we explore the metaphors of nature to inspire how we find and nurture connection in our own lives. All are welcome, and absolutely no art experience is required. To create a sense of connection through this virtual workshop, participants are invited to participate with their camera on, and there will be time for optional sharing towards the end of the workshop, though sharing is certainly not required.  Essential Art Materials:

Chair Yoga is the way to go when you are reluctant to get into the yoga clothes and get on the mat- challenge yourself with Chair yoga. Chair Yoga is a gentle yoga practice that adapts various traditional postures for practice in the chair or with the support of a chair. It is a gentle form of yoga that involves breath-work, meditation, and gentle stretches; all of which release stress and tension from both body and mind.

Failure is experienced by everyone, but is often seen as "taboo". In this interactive workshop, we will open the conversation around failure and mistakes, discussing how we define failure, how failure is experienced, as well as some tangible strategies to help manage our experiences with failure. There will be opportunities to share experiences (for those who feel up to it) and time to reflect. Participants will walk away with strategies on how to have failure conversations in their own lives.  Registration This session will be rescheduled to a later date.

From time to time, employees may find themselves in need of confidential, professional counselling for personal, family, relationship, and wellness issues adversely affecting work performance or threatening to do so.

This welcoming, in-person 1-hour workshop invites university staff and faculty to explore the fundamentals of emotions with curiosity, compassion, and practical care. Participants will build an accessible understanding of the science of emotions by examining the many factors that influence emotional responses—such as lived experiences, stress, relationships, environment, and nervous system states—rather than viewing emotions as something to “fix” or control.