ProgramsWellbeing
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Passport to Wellbeing (Fall 2014): Passport to Wellbeing is a new program to help you explore all of the offerings for employees within Gustavus Wellbeing. More information is coming soon!
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Be U Group Coaching: Be U Wellbeing Group Coaching (Be U) is a signature program of the Wellbeing Initiative that supports exploration of purpose, vitality, and connection. Be U fosters a campus culture in which employees care for each other, and are invested in each other's growth and development. This is a unique opportunity for employees to invest in their own personal and professional development, and acquire skills to support lifelong health and wellbeing.
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TED Talk Tuesdays: Please stop by the Wellbeing Center every Tuesday at 12:45P to view a TED Talk with other like-minded members of the Gustavus community. Each week, we will feature a different speaker about topics that are sure to delight, inspire, and intrigue you: from happiness and creativity, to motivation and why we do what we do. Don’t forget to bring your lunch!
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Spring Fitness Challenge (Spring 2015): The Spring Fitness Challenge is designed to get you moving and enjoying the great outdoors! As an incentive, you can earn a Minnesota State Park sticker and Minnesota Fishing License. More information is coming. Click here
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Mindful Eating: Maybe you’ve attended weekly meetings, eliminated entire food groups, logged your food and exercise into an app, followed prescribed meal plans, or any of a thousand other “solutions.” But where has all that gotten you? Frustrated, guilty, and even more focused on food than you were before? There may be one expert you haven’t listened to yet…the expert in YOU! We’ll show you how.
The Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Program, taught by our very own certified instructor George Elliott, provides you with the tools and strategies to make the best decisions for yourself. Free yourself to live the full life you crave! Class information and registration are coming soon.
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (Spring 2015): The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program seeks to help participants cope with more ease during stressful times, enhance ability to comfort the physical body, increase awareness of the mind’s influence on the body in health and illness, and have greater clarity in taking care of one’s health. It can be especially helpful to those who experience stress, cancer, GI distress, headaches, heart disease, chronic pain, high blood pressure, asthma, fibromyalgia, diabetes, skin disorders, anxiety and panic, fatigue, and sleep disturbances.
Our program is modeled after the program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn as featured in the Bill Moyer’s PBS Special “Healing and the Mind” and described in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book “Full Catastrophe Living.” It meets once a week for eight weeks and includes an all-day retreat. This is a challenging and life-affirming course that involves guided instruction in moving meditation (yoga), seated meditation, mindful eating and mindful walking. Please check back for program registration.
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Department-Specific Initiatives (by request): The Wellbeing Center team is pleased to work with departments and/or individuals across the College who have an expressed interest, need, or concern for wellbeing programs, policies, outreach opportunities, and educational initiatives. Please contact Meghan Krause, Director of Wellbeing, at x7707 or mkrause2@gustavus.edu to explore opportunities.