Past Events

Pick your favourite guided meditation script and take a mindful walk. This is an independent activity, that you can do anytime during the day. Explore some tips from the Greater Good Science Center on how you can get started with your mindful walk. Below are some guided walking meditations to explore:

Join Zoom Meeting. Meeting ID: 954 8412 8908

The Student Wellness Education and Promotion Centre will be offering a virtual lunchtime walking group on a drop-in basis through the summer. 

This workshop is offered by CMHA to community members. "Getting caught in a cycle of negative thinking can seriously impact our mental well being. In this webinar, we will learn to recognize different ‘thinking traps’ that we all tend to fall into, as well as strategies we can use to escape them. We will explore the difference between being reactive, and being responsive and how we can practice challenging ourselves when our thoughts our unhelpful." Register by clicking here.

Help yourself establish a routine and deepen your practice by joining our virtual Yoga Class every Tuesday and Thursday from 12 - 1 PM. Bring calm, clarity, and peace to the mind.  Everyone – faculty, staff, students, alumni, retirees, visiting scholars – Welcome!  No experience required. Try not to eat 2 hours before the practice.  "A yoga collective that cares about cultivating health and wellbeing on the diverse U of G campus and beyond. Our goal is to offer valuable tools for achieving a balanced state of mind and body."

YMCA WorkWell is hosting this webinar. Join us on Thursday, June 17 from 10-11 am as our YMCA WorkWell team discusses the impact loneliness is having on the workplace, and how leaders can support themselves, and their employees. Learn more and register on the WorkWell website.

This session is being offered by Learning & Development. When asked for advice, author of The Coaching Habit and The Advice Trap, Michael Bungay Stanier, says every part of his body wants to offer it. Advice giving is seductive because it makes us feel important, and like we’re serving others. But there’s a price to pay when it’s reactive and automatic, especially when you are in a leadership role.

Join Dr. Andrew Papadopoulos for a third discussion on the current COVID-19 pandemic.  This brief talk will be followed by Q & A. Please submit any questions you have when you register. If registering the day of the session, please email sschoeff@uoguelph.ca to request the meeting link. About the Facilitator: Dr. Papadopoulos is a professor in the Department of Population Medicine and the coordinator of the Master of Public Health Program.  His research focuses on environmental public health issues and public health policy. 

“To get to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of relationships, which depends on the quality of conversations. Everything happens through conversations.” ~ Judith E. Glaser GOAL 2.0 is the UofG’s modernized and evidence-based performance success framework. The foundation of GOAL 2.0 is two-way quality conversations between managers and employees that rely on three core practices: Connect, Adapt, and Align.

U of G Women, Work and Wellness What are your challenges to living and working well? Join us online for this trio of discussions to reflect on the unusual circumstances that we have been faced with over the past year and the ongoing uncertainty about the future. In June we will work independently and together to create a vision for ourselves that looks beyond the current circumstances. Please register and we will add you to the calendar invite with the link for the meeting. Register for: