The Healthy UBC Newsletter comes out monthly for those who are interested in health and wellbeing topics at UBC.
Healthy UBC Newsletter
Five ways to engage your team with Thrive
Thrive is a time when the UBC community comes together to learn, talk and explore mental health and resilience. Thrive also provides an opportunity to engage workplaces and teams in discussions and activities that help build supportive workplace culture. Consider gathering your team for Thrive in November. Here are some ideas to get you started.
- HR
- Wellbeing
- Healthy UBC
Coping with climate change: three steps to supporting emotional wellbeing
Do you feel overwhelmed by the impacts of climate change? If so, you are not alone. Climate change increasingly affects how individuals and communities experience mental health and wellbeing. Coping with the impacts of climate change may leave us feeling helpless and hopeless. However, eco-anxiety and eco-grief are also adaptive and normal responses to a profound global threat. It is important that we maintain and build our resilience in response to climate change.
- HR
- Wellbeing
- Healthy UBC
September 30 - Orange Shirt Day & National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
2021 is the first year that September 30, a day we know as Orange Shirt Day, will be recognized as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and be observed as a holiday in BC. Orange Shirt Day is a day when we wear orange shirts to honour residential school survivors and Phyllis Webstad’s story.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Our favourite walks around UBCV and UBCO
Now that we’re returning back to our in-person work and learning environments, here's a list of some of our favourite places to walk around UBC’s beautiful campuses.
- HR
- HR Network News
- Healthy UBC
Learn more about our Workplace Wellbeing Ambassadors
To learn more about our Workplace Wellbeing Ambassadors we sat down and spoke with Louise and Felicia to find out more!
- HR
- HR Network News
- Healthy UBC
Five Ways to Get Moving with Friends
Summer is officially here, and with the province-wide restrictions easing, there is no better way to celebrate than by going outdoors and staying active with some friends!
- HR
- Wellbeing
- Healthy UBC
The Benefits of Taking Vacation Time
Vacations are special. It’s time where we unwind and pursue our interests and make special memories that last a lifetime. It is also a time to reconnect with our community and re-energize ourselves as we transition from the pandemic.
- HR
- Learning
- Healthy UBC
Simple Strategies for Work-Life Balance
Balancing work-life demands is important for managing stress and building resilience. Having effective go-to strategies and trying new actions help us be proactive in cultivating balance and building self-efficacy.
- HR
- Wellbeing
- Healthy UBC
Resources and Tools to Support Mental Health
We have many tools and resources to help you understand and then support your mental health, we have put these all together in one place to help you on your journey.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Tips to help you choose a counsellor
Finding the therapist, like any practitioner and client relationship, the better the fit the more productive the sessions will be. Here are some tips to help you find the right counsellor.
- HR
- Wellbeing
- Healthy UBC