{"id":77398,"date":"2022-03-31T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77398"},"modified":"2022-03-31T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:47:58","slug":"relaxation-workshop-among-free-learning-opportunities-in-april-employee-wellness-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/03\/relaxation-workshop-among-free-learning-opportunities-in-april-employee-wellness-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaxation workshop among free learning opportunities in April employee wellness calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When life gets busy, it\u2019s important to take time to relax.<\/p>\n<p>Relaxation is different for everyone. To one person, it might mean pausing to sip on a cup of coffee, meditating as the warmth from the mug heats their fingers. For others, relaxing might be stretching, going for a walk, doodling, listening to music or laughing one\u2019s stresses away.<\/p>\n<p>An upcoming relaxation workshop is one of several free learning opportunities available to Brock employees that are highlighted in the April wellness calendar prepared by the University&#8217;s Health Management team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/hr\/training\/focus\/courses.php?cid=2511\">Customize a Relaxation Practice that Works for You<\/a> will take place Wednesday, April 13 from noon to 12:45 p.m. via Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.sharepoint.com\/human-resources\/Shared%20Documents\/Forms\/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fhuman%2Dresources%2FShared%20Documents%2FEHS%2FWellness%20calendar%2F2022%20%2D%20April%2Epdf&amp;parent=%2Fhuman%2Dresources%2FShared%20Documents%2FEHS%2FWellness%20calendar\">April Employee Wellness Calendar<\/a> also includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An invitation to employees and people leaders to participate in <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/03\/free-mental-health-training-available-to-brock-employees\/\">free mental health training<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A reminder to complete <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.sharepoint.com\/Health-Safety-and-Wellness-Toolbox\/SitePages\/Mandatory-health-and-safety-training.aspx\">mandatory workplace health and safety training modules<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Encouragement to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/02\/rak-day-2022-brock-vp-encourages-employees-to-be-kind\/\">University\u2019s year-long kindness initiative<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Employees can visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.sharepoint.com\/Health-Safety-and-Wellness-Toolbox\/SitePages\/Wellness-calendars-and-event-recordings.aspx\">Health, Safety and Wellness Toolbox<\/a> on SharePoint to access monthly employee wellness calendars, the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation\u2019s workplace kindness calendar and several video recordings of previous wellness seminars.<\/p>\n<p>The toolbox also includes a listing of <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.sharepoint.com\/Health-Safety-and-Wellness-Toolbox\/SitePages\/LifeWorks-newsletters.aspx?\">resources from LifeWorks wellness newsletters<\/a> on topics such as sleep, mindfulness, SMART goals and coping with a traumatic event. The <a href=\"https:\/\/links.emarketing.lifeworks.com\/servlet\/MailView?ms=ODEwODA1NAS2&amp;r=NDQyMTYzNjMwNDYxS0&amp;j=MTQ2MTEyNTE4OAS2&amp;mt=1&amp;rt=0\">April LifeWorks newsletter<\/a> features a <a href=\"https:\/\/wellbeing.lifeworks.com\/ca\/newsletter-content\/video-how-to-work-remotely-with-children\/\">video on how to work remotely with children<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/wellbeing.lifeworks.com\/ca\/newsletter-content\/keeping-your-relationship-strong-when-youre-in-a-stepfamily\/\">article on keeping your relationship strong when you&#8217;re a stepfamily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions or suggestions for upcoming employee wellness initiatives can be emailed to <a href=\"mailto:employeehealth@brocku.ca\">employeehealth@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When life gets busy, it\u2019s important to take time to relax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7],"tags":[6181,3393,1985,101,6229,2683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77398"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77400,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77398\/revisions\/77400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}