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Eating well - Mindful eating
Healthy eating can be difficult to maintain in challenging times, but studies have shown that being mindful of your eating habits and maintaining a nutritious diet can improve your mental health, reducing anxiety and depression. Here are a few things you can do to practice eating well.
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Giving Back with United Way
The annual UBC United Way Campaign is now underway. Giving back adds to your sense of purpose, connection, and wellbeing. By donating to United Way you are ensuring that those who need help are getting it through initiatives such as Food Hubs, the Youth Futures Education Fund, and Healthy Aging for Seniors.
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Moving More with UBC Recreation
Are you looking for ways to get moving? UBC Recreation offers a variety of different options for physical activity. Visit a fitness centre or take a class and learn about available discounts for faculty and staff.
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Thrive Month - Learning to Thrive
November is Thrive month at UBC. Thrive is a time when we come together as a UBC community to learn about, talk about, and explore ways to support our mental health. Thrive is for everyone—we all have mental health, and while it might look and feel different for each of us, we all benefit from maintaining and fostering it.
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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.
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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.
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Toolkits available to promote the Workplace Experiences Survey
The UBC Workplace Experiences Survey (WES) is coming on November 1.
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Information session about your benefits
Attend the session to understand your benefit plan coverage and how to make claims, learn about the Employee and Family Assistance Plan, and speak directly to one of our benefits specialists.
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Deadline extended: 2021 Thrive grants and partnership events
Applications are open for Thrive grants, providing up to $300 in funding for departments and units to host an event at UBC Vancouver during November.
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Remote work learning opportunities
UBC’s Remote Work program provides an opportunity to consider how future work arrangements will continue to make UBC an inspiring place for students to learn and for faculty and staff to research, teach, and work.
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