{"id":34237,"date":"2015-06-30T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=34237"},"modified":"2015-07-03T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:18:58","slug":"34237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/06\/34237\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Day sets more than 500 employees on path to well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34238\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bike-winner.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34238\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34238\" title=\"bike-winner\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bike-winner-1024x829.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathon Therrien (second from right) was the winner of the bike, donated by Greenshield, on Wellness. With him are (from left) Darren Harper, \" width=\"504\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathon Therrien (second from right) was the winner of the bike, donated by Greenshield, on Wellness. With him are (from left) Darren Harper, Associate Vice-President of Human Resources, Kathryn Walker, health management consultant, and Lyndsay Summerhill.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When it comes to wellness, Jonathon Therrien will be spinning his wheels.<\/p>\n<p>The help desk consultant in the Applied Health Sciences Dean&#8217;s Office won the bike that was up for grabs on Wellness Day recently.<\/p>\n<p>Therrien wasn&#8217;t alone in his quest for wellness on June 18, when staff took a break from their usual work routine to participate in the annual event dedicated to personal and professional development.<\/p>\n<p>More than 525 employees registered for 61 workshops focused on social, mental, financial, physical and spiritual well-being. Workshops were run by other Brock staff and community partners.<\/p>\n<p>The day kicked off with a motivational plenary session that featured Bonnie Giampa and Briar Krieger, co-creators of The 8 Week Challenge, a fitness and nutrition program. Brock will participate in a corporate 8 Week Challenge in September.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/brockuwellness\" target=\"_blank\">@brockuwellness on Twitter <\/a>or on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brockuwellness\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a> for more information on that and other upcoming wellness initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Wellness Day was sponsored by the Ontario Teacher&#8217;s Insurance Plan (OTIP), Shepell, BUSU and Greenshield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to wellness, Jonathon Therrien will be spinning his wheels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[3160,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237"}],"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=34237"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34240,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237\/revisions\/34240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}