{"id":17073,"date":"2012-06-20T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=17073"},"modified":"2012-06-20T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:53:52","slug":"brock-staff-participate-in-annual-wellness-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/06\/brock-staff-participate-in-annual-wellness-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock staff participate in annual wellness conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17076\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17076\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17076\" title=\"Health and Wellness Day\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/health-and-wellness-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"Health and Wellness Day\" width=\"504\" height=\"350\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Anderson, who works in Brock&#39;s mailroom, learns how to play the ukelele during the annual Employee Wellness Conference Tuesday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Hundreds of Brock staff spent the day as students Tuesday, taking in seminars on everything from how to make a sock monkey to learning how to make the most of their iPhones during the employee wellness conference.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event dedicated to employee well-being featured 86 different sessions in which staff could participate. But the event doesn&#8217;t just teach how-to&#8217;s. It&#8217;s a big boost to morale on campus, said Val Wolfe, conference director and Brock&#8217;s manager of environment, health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You actually see how tangibly happier people are in the days following the conference,&#8221; Wolfe said. &#8220;They&#8217;re lifted, they feel connected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conference, organized by Human Resources, Environment, Health and Safety, the wellness committee and a workshop subcommittee, \u00a0focuses on eight aspects of health and well-being: physical, social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, environmental and financial.<\/p>\n<p>This year, about 700 staff took advantage of the conference offerings, a number that continues to grow after 13 years of hosting the event, Wolfe said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re doing it so they can step out of their work selves for a day and learn about what interests them,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>But the day also gives a group of employees who may not always have opportunities for personal and professional development by attending conferences the chance to have such an experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(I recognize) how good it is for me to go to a conference and come back refreshed,&#8221; Wolfe explained.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the committees helping Wolfe pull off the day are:\u00a0Lynn Hunter-Hope, Recreation Services, Brendan Barrett, Registrar&#8217;s Office, Alison Lahn, Child and Youth Studies, Amanda Smits, Recreation Services, Wendy Laslo, Community and Ancillary Services, Diana Panter, Registrar&#8217;s Office, Brent Schulz, Recreation Services, Jo-Anne Sinnige-Egger, Child and Youth Studies, Nancy Sutton, Community and Ancillary Services, Stuart Reid, Rodman Hall, Carrie Kelly, Research Services and Susan Mifsud, HR-EHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Brock staff spent the day as students Tuesday, taking in seminars on everything from how to make a sock monkey to learning how to make the most of their iPhones during the employee wellness conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":17076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[340,339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17073"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17081,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073\/revisions\/17081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}