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The Wellness@Work Programming Committee is making some small changes to the Wellness@Work Programming Calendars that are released monthly.

Kindness, the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate can help make our community stronger, more connected, and more resilient. 

In honour of World Kindness Day on November 13, 2022, the Gratitude, Recognition, and Employee Appreciation Together (GREAT) Initiative challenges you to focus on being kind to others and yourself by completing our Kindness Challenge for each day of the month of November.

If you didn’t know, it can often take more than one donor to save a life and there is a large shortage of blood donations across Canada! 

Join the University of Guelph's Partners for Life (PFL) team as we work towards saving lives together and make an appointment to donate blood or plasma now! 

From May 2-6, 2022, Wellness@Work hosted a week of activities in recognition of National Mental Health Week and North American Occupational Safety and Health Week.

View highlights from Be Well, Be Safe Week 2021.

For March 2022 the Wellness@Work Programming Committee is focusing on simplifying the wellness calendar. Simplifying parts of our days and the spaces around us can support with increased well-being and reduce emotional overwhelm. Simplifying can mean something different for each individual person, especially with what they may need.

The Wellness@Work Programming Committee is challenging you to a new Simplifying BINGO game for March 2022!  For March 2022 the Wellness@Work Programming Committee is focusing on simplifying the wellness calendar. Simplifying parts of our days and the spaces around us can support with increased well-being and reduce emotional overwhelm.

Each day in February, commit to your own gratitude practice. 

Below are a few ideas for inspiration. Pick one strategy that works best for you or try out different practices throughout the month:

Challenge Details

This is a step-challenge. The goal for this challenge is to walk 5000 steps/day, every day of the challenge to acquire 155,000 steps by the end of the month. Record your movement in the GryphFit app to be entered.

The challenge runs from January 1st to 31st! 

View the highlights from our virtual Healthy Workplace Month 2021 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.

Your wellness challenge for November 2021 is to set your own wellness goal! We encourage you to download the goal setting template, complete it and submit it by December 1st, 2021 to Isidora Nezic via email at wellnessatwork@uoguelph.ca. Everyone who submits their wellness goal will be entered to win a $25 gift card of their choosing!