SCS Wellbeing Initiatives
WIRN workshop on Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing
27 February 2019 - WWCRC Seminar Room
Programme:
Dr Maria Gardani: Are you losing sleep? Struggling to achieve a good night’s sleep can affect your physical and mental health and your overall quality of life. Get some tips on how you can improve your zzzz’s to feel better and look better.
Prof Lawrence Barsalou : This section will cover the psychological mechanisms that produce stress, an overview of strategies for working with these mechanisms, including a brief introduction to mindfulness.
Dr Maxine Swingler: The Yoga session will demonstrate a few very basic yoga poses using the chair to help with stiffness associated with desk work.
Dr Chiara Horlin: Dance and circus skills have all the obvious health benefits of participating in any physical activity. Whether you want some ‘me time’ or like to spend time with others, an alternative type of fitness can help develop unique spatial skills, new social circles, and introduce you to diverse and inclusive communities outside of academia. Experience the physical expression of pure joy and tomfoolery with some 1960s go-go dancing and a killer playlist, and challenge yourself to learn some new circus tricks to impress at parties. Chiara will be joined by Scott Craig for the introduction to circus skills. Scott is Head Coach at Aerial Edge and studied Formateur en Arts du Cirque at Ecole Nationale de Cirque in Montreal.
Format: We encourage active participation, so please wear comfortable clothing. However, the sessions are structured to cater for all abilities.
Mindfulness Session
24 April 2019 WWCRC Seminar Room
This session, delivered by UofG Sport, will demonstrate strategies to help you cope with work challenges in a positive manner and protect your mental wellbeing.
Effective coping skills are key to working through the negative challenges in life, allowing you to put negative situations into perspective. Kim works towards creating a positive, healthy mindset and providing tools that can be used in everyday life.
- Increase awareness
- Learn positive coping skills
- Increase positivity and decrease anxiety and fear
This event will form part of a Mindfulness at Work series, but can be attended as a standalone session. The MPA Peer Network is proud to be partially funded by the Ferguson Bequest
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Wellbeing Leaflet - Institute of Cancer Sciences
Lunchtime Yoga
Tuesdays at 12.10pm - 12.50pm and 1.10pm - 1.50pm - WWCRC Seminar Room, Level 3 - All Welcome
Running Club
Mondays at 12pm - 12.30pm - WWCRC Contact Chris Halsey
Carers and Careers in Higher Education
Advance HE have released a new film which aims to raise awareness of carers in academia: Carers and Careers in Higher Education.
The film is the outcome of a collaboration with film director Tim Bernard and has received the support of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (now Advance-HE).
You can view the film here
Follow them on twitter @AdvanceHE