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Tuesday, July 14:
There is no better way to stay focused and productive when all around you is a little chaotic than to practice mindfulness. Join your colleagues and the ISU WellBeing team, and special guests, every Tuesday and Thursday mornings for a mindfulness experience. For more information go here.
Wednesday, July 15:
American Heart Association - Community Conversation webinar: “Families, Summer, Disrupted by COVID, What NOW?” - 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Listen to a great conversation from our local professionals in Des Moines about healthy resources to support your family this summer amidst virus concerns. To register for this webinar: Click Here
We want to connect with you! Every Wednesday join your ISU WellBeing team, or special guest, in a conversation on well-being during these challenging times. Each week we will share information on staying well and connecting with other ISU employees. For more information go here.
This week's topic: Movement and Mindfulness
This week's speaker: Nora Hudson, ISU Rec Services
- EAP Webinar: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace - 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Explore the dynamics of cultural diversity and identify barriers that arise in the workplace related to diversity. For more information and to register go here.
Thursday, July 16:
There is no better way to stay focused and productive when all around you is a little chaotic than to practice mindfulness. Join your colleagues and the ISU WellBeing team, and special guests, every Tuesday and Thursday mornings for a mindfulness experience. For more information go here.
Guest leader: Douglas Gentile, ISU Professor of Psychology. Dr. Gentile studies how mass media influence children as well as how mindfulness techniques can help us to be happier and less anxious. He is a certified meditation teacher, as well as a fully-ordained Zen monk.
Friday, July 17:
This week's topic: Unspoken Things: how to unravel and what are [y]our key concerns at the moment?
In times of ambiguity, or when facing complex challenges, typical solution-based tools are not the most adequate to unravel ways forward. Uncertainty, entanglement and wicked problems that are highly systemic and systematic require different tactics: process-driven tools that can allow us to explore new parts of the problem and find focus of influence and control. The session will explore [y]our unspoken parts of the challenges we face currently, and navigate between two easy, quick and visual tools used in Creativity and Design for decision-making and problem-loving.
This week's speaker: Ana Luz, Associate Teaching Professor; Industrial Design
To register go here. To view future sessions, visit the WorkLife website or email cbroshar@iastate.edu.
- ISU WellBeing - Walk and Talk - Walk on your own or join the ISU WellBeing team at 12:10 pm for a virtual walk via Webex. For more information go here.
This summer we are continuing our encouragement for you to break from the work you are doing and go on a one-mile walk with us every Friday. There are lots of ways to connect during this time and we have listed a few below for you to try:
- Call a colleague, family member, or friend and talk on the phone while you walk
- Encourage those in your place of residence to walk with you – kids, spouse, etc.
- Take your pet on a walk – good for you, good for them
- Go it alone and enjoy the quiet and peace of the day away from everyone else
- Or, join the ISU WellBeing team via Webex every Friday!
- ISU WellBeing - Walk and Talk