U of G faculty and staff are invited to sign-up now to receive a free Take your Break Activity Book in the mail, including puzzles, colouring pages, wellness tips, and employee wellness resources.
Take a sneak peek at a few of the pages from the activity book below.
Registration has now closed and the activity books are being shipped before the holiday break.
Wellness@Work is challenging you to share your favourite Holiday Food Tradition for your chance to win a prize!
Use the Kudoboard to tell us about your holiday food tradition, post a photo of the food, and include the recipe in your post. Follow the Kudoboard link and use your single sign on to access the site and share your post.
Every post will earn you an entry into a draw for a prize and additional entries will be awarded from heart reactions you receive on your post.
See the full December Wellness@Work calendar attached below. Events are hyperlinked, so click on any event to learn more and register where applicable.
View the attached PDF to view highlights from our virtual Healthy Workplace Month 2020 with participant feedback.
Do you want to share any feedback about the month or activities you joined? Feel free to reach out to wellnessatwork@uoguelph.ca.
View the contest winners from Healthy Workplace Month.
We know that the relationship between an employee and their manager can be one of the most important factors in employee success and well-being in the workplace. Through the Wellness@Work initiative, we are working towards enhancing 13 factors that impact psychological health and safety within the workplace, including:
World Kindness Day is a global day that promotes the importance of being kind to each other, to yourself and to the world. This day, celebrated on November 13 of each year, has the purpose to help everyone understand that compassion for others is what binds us all together. In years past, we encouraged you to smile at a stranger, pay it forward and buy someone a coffee, or connect with a friend over dinner.
See attached the full November calendar for wellness activities and opportunities taking place throughout the month.
Join the 30 Day Challenge, with daily practices challenging barriers to equity.
Through the Wellness@Work initiative we are proud to be hosting our fourth annual Healthy Workplace Month at the University of Guelph. The Wellness@Work Programming Committee invites you to take part in some of the fun, free activities to help boost workplace wellness across our institution.
Join the GryphFit physical activity challenge during Healthy Workplace Month.
Watch a one minute video overview of the challenge.
Complete 30 mins of physical activity per day from October 1st-30th, 2020.
As the nights start to get darker quicker and the weather gets colder, you may be looking for some new indoor virtual activities you can participate in. The Wellness@Work Programming Committee have compiled a few online resources you can check out to learn something new, explore unique places around the world, have some fun and/or connect with others.