Healthy Workplace Month Blog

Download the 2023 Healthy Workplace Month Calendar!

GREAT at U of G is an initiative designed to foster gratitude, recognition and appreciation for all faculty and staff at the University. On September 21, World Gratitude Day, GREAT at U of G relaunched its customized internal system to support faculty and staff success through education, facilitation, and connection. With this relaunch Gryph Posts have been introduced. 

Consistent with commitments in the University of Guelph Strategic Plan Priority #5: Supporting Faculty & Staff Success, the Okanagan Charter, and building on previous important work, Wellness@Work is in the process of updating its strategic plan for a 5-year period from 2024-2029. We are seeking feedback from all University of Guelph faculty and staff on how we support a healthy workplace. Throughout the process, we will seek our community's input on priorities and directions they would like to see from Wellness@Work.

The Wellness@Work Programming Committee is challenging you to Gratitude BINGO for Healthy Workplace Month. 

Download the bingo card to participate in the Wellness@Work Gratitude BINGO challenge throughout the month of October.  Everyone who participates will be entered into a draw for a prize!   

All you need to do is print the bingo card and mark off squares as you complete them.

Wellness@Work is running a pilot program with Up and Running Guelph that we will be calling “Walks for Well-being” that will launch in October, during Healthy Workplace Month and run for 6 weeks. 

This Fall, join in a weekly yoga practice with the U of G Yoga and Meditation Collective. 

U of G Yoga and Meditation Collective's new FALL semester Yoga Practice continues with New Programming and the addition of the NEW Yin Yoga class on Monday at 8 PM and an In-Person Classical Yoga class on Thursday at Noon. Let’s clear our minds with the breath, strengthen our bodies with movement, and ease into some beautiful Fall semester yoga poses.   

With 1 in 5 students at U of G experiencing food insecurity, you can do your part to help end student food insecurity by visiting Wellness@Work on October 31st in the UC Courtyard between 10:30am and 3:30pm to donate a non-perishable item. All donations will go to the Guelph Student Food Bank to support our U of G students. 

The Wellness@Work Programming Committee is challenging you to Gratitude BINGO for Healthy Workplace Month. 

Download the bingo card to participate in the Wellness@Work Gratitude BINGO challenge throughout the month of October.  Everyone who participates will be entered into a draw for a prize!   

All you need to do is print the bingo card and mark off squares as you complete them.

Benefits to Gratitude

The Ergonomics Program at the University of Guelph aims to assist faculty and staff to work safely.  Ergonomics applies scientific theory, principles and methods to explore the relationships between the worker job tasks and the workplace.  Ergonomics removes barriers to quality, productivity, and safe human performance by fitting products (equipment), tasks and environments to people.