Past Events

With 1 in 5 students at U of G experiencing food insecurity, you can do your part to help end student food insecurity by visiting Wellness@Work on October 31st in the UC Courtyard between 10:30am and 3:30pm to donate a non-perishable item. All donations will go to the Guelph Student Food Bank to support our own U of G students. 

Mindfulness helps to decrease stress, increase resilience, improve personal productivity, develop connections with others, and augment the ability to experience more joy and peace. This webinar will focus on understanding mindfulness and will assist participants in practicing techniques that can be implemented into everyday life at work and at home. Facilitator: Homewood Health Register through qualtrics  

  What is the Campus Food Market?  Held every Thursday afternoon, the market is open to everyone in the University of Guelph community. Since launching a pilot in March 2022, the market has proven a hit, with customers lining up early with reusable bags to shop for fresh produce right on campus. 

Funded by DHR's Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Enhancement fund, Wellness@Work is coordinating a three-part mental health speaker series focusing on mental health and the intersectionality of social identities. With the launch of our speaker series on Oct 26th, our first topic will be related to 2SLGBTQIA+ identity and mental health in the workplace.

  What is the Campus Food Market?  Held every Thursday afternoon, the market is open to everyone in the University of Guelph community. Since launching a pilot in March 2022, the market has proven a hit, with customers lining up early with reusable bags to shop for fresh produce right on campus. 

World Kindness Day is Nov 13! The gratitude, recognition, and employee appreciation together (GREAT) initiative invites you to look for ways to make kindness the norm in your daily life. World Kindness Day is a great day to begin building a new routine which means including intentional moments of kindness. It also means taking a moment to enjoy and recognize when those things are happening. On October 19th, come and spend some time with your colleagues prepared with a 1-minute story of a small or great act of kindness you have experienced.

ASIST is a 2-day workshop held Wednesday, October 19th and Thursday, October 20th from 8:30am-4:30pm both days. Participants must be able to attend both days in full. 

Looking to start a new fitness or wellness journey? Did you know that all staff/faculty on campus have access to a subsidized rate to use the on-campus facilities? Join us on a tour of what programming/services and equipment is available to our staff/faculty members and why the Athletic facilities might just be the best fit for you! Attendees of this tour will receive a free day pass for recreation in the Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre, including access to the Fitness Centre and / or a fitness class, to use at their convenience!

Globalization, the new workplace reality, requires us to develop new skills. Appreciating differences – whether they stem from ethnicity, generational status, sexual orientation, or a myriad of other variables – requires us to move beyond our fears and prejudices in order to create a shared culture of respect. Facilitator: Homewood Health Register through qualtrics  

Designed by Living Works, SafeTALK is a 3.5 hours alertness training and certification that prepares anyone, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. This training includes understanding of the importance of suicide alertness, learning to identify ways people invite help, and how to connect those who need help with resources when they are at risk.