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Free Take your Break Activity Book

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. 


December Wellness Challenge: Share your Holiday Food Tradition

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.

Healthy Workplace Month 2020 Highlights

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.

What does GOAL 2.0. have to do with Wellness?

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: Be Kind to Yourself and Others

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.

November 2020 Wellness Calendar

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.

Healthy Workplace Month Calendar- October 2020

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.  

30 Day Challenge: A Daily Practice Challenging Barriers to Equity

Wellbeing Waterloo Region have designed a 30 day challenge with daily practices challenging barriers to equity. The U of G Wellness@Work Programming Committee encourages you to do this challenge throughout the month of  November.

Sign-up for the Challenge  

Register for this challenge to receive reminders from Wellness@Work, as well as a calendar invitation for the de-brief session on December 3, 10-11am. 

June BINGO Card: Wellness@Work Challenge

The Wellness@Work Programming Committee is challenging you to a new Wellness@Work BINGO game for the month of June. 

Participate in the Wellness@Work BINGO challenge throughout the month of June.  Check off any of the activities that you do and submit your BINGO sheet to wellnessatwork@uoguelph.ca at the end of the month. 

Everyone who participates will be entered into a draw for a prize!        

Good luck!       

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