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Wellness Webinar: The Power of Gratitude | Sara Rose | 60 mins

Gratitude can be a practice, a state of being, or an offering. Regardless of how you engage with it, gratitude will not only improve your mental health – it will enhance your life. Learn the many benefits that come with gratitude, practice different techniques, and explore different ways to put a gratitude into your daily life.

Wellness Webinar: Your Health Starts with Healthy Sleep | Sara Rose | 60 mins

These days, it seems that anything health-related can be tailored to fit our individual needs. For example, we might hear about a friend who is on a particular eating plan, or a co-worker who swears by their customized exercise routine. But the universal link is that we all need the same kind of sleep to be healthy. Sleep not only influences our concentration and productivity, but it also impacts our physical wellbeing. This video explores the science of sleep and its many benefits, what happens when you don’t sleep, and how to set up a healthy sleep routine – even when you work in the evening or at night!

Wellness Webinar: 3 Games for Financial Wellness | Hanna | 60 mins

Making big strides towards financial wellness doesn’t have to be hard work. With these three games, employees will grow their financial resilience, gain insight into their spending, and make the next steps even easier for themselves. These activities are great for kids, too! This class provides employees with a low-barrier approach to becoming more comfortable talking about money, trying new things, and changing their money mindsets.

Wellness Webinar: Boundaries & Burnout | Casey | 60 mins

Do you feel tired? Find yourself saying “yes” when you really want to say “no”? Struggle with work-life balance? This interactive webinar covers how creating and maintaining healthy boundaries can positively impact your overall health and well-being in all areas of your life. Participants will walk away with several tools to calm their nervous system, as well as empowering action steps to avoid burnout in 2022 and beyond.

Wellness Webinar: Goal Setting in the New Year | Sara Rose | 60 mins

The pause after a busy holiday season brings space to regroup, focus, and get organized for our year ahead. It’s a time where we set goals and intentions in hopes of making improvements in our lives. But how do we transform these goals and intentions into a long-lasting reality? Come and spend an hour to not just set a New Year’s goal, but one that is right for you. Learn how to pave the way toward long-lasting change for a new year – a new you.

Wellness Webinar: Part 1 – Intro to Ayurveda | Ginger | 60 mins

Ayurveda, the 5000+ year-old health science which originated in India, is relevant today. Modern science is proving many Ayurvedic concepts. According to Ayurveda, each person is unique. Finding balance is the goal and Ayurveda suggests diet and lifestyle changes to bring balance into daily life. It’s as basic as understanding the qualities of nature and viewing ourselves as microcosms of the macrocosm. While there are powerful Ayurvedic herbs and special treatments, a practitioner’s truest goal is to help the client facilitate their own healing. What are your goals for maximum health and wellness?

Wellness Webinar: Part 2 – Ayurveda and Your Daily Routines | Ginger | 60 mins

In this video, learn why establishing daily routines is so important in Ayurveda for establishing and maintaining balance in body, mind and spirit. You’ll review the basic principles of Ayurveda and how to apply them to create harmony and consistency in your lifestyle choices.

Wellness Webinar: Sustainability – Taking Care of Yourself and the Earth | Diana | 60 mins

In this webinar, we turn our attention to the microcosm of our body-mind in relation to the macrocosm of the Earth. What does it mean to create a sustainable life and how does that idea relate to our wellbeing? Is it possible to create less of an environmental impact while still living an abundant life? This workshop will begin with a short centering practice before unpacking the notions of simplicity and contentment. We’ll follow with reflections about slowing down and connecting to Nature’s cycles, then close with practical tools for staying grounded and living a life that aligns with your values. Remember, you are designed for sustainability!

Wellness Webinar: The ABC’s of Self-Compassion | Sara Rose | 60 mins

Life is full of ups and downs. It is a gift to offer ourselves compassion during challenging times. Self-compassion creates resiliency for ourselves and allows us to extend true compassion to others. Learn a simple and potent technique that will create a self-compassion practice for yourself.

Wellness Webinar: Brain Health | Sara Rose | 60 mins

Our brain is one of the most important organs in the body. It governs everything from our intelligence to our behavior; from our emotions to initiating movement, so it pays out big when we keep the brain working in optimal condition. Learn about the pillars of brain health that will not only create a strong foundation for disease prevention, but keep your brain functioning at its absolute best.

Wellness Webinar: I’m Stressed! | Sara Rose | 60 mins

Stress is something that we all experience, but we might not realize the impact that it has on our health and wellness. Learn about where our stress comes from, what is happening in the body when stressed, and top tips for countering stress and how to apply them to your life.

Wellness Webinar: Foundations of Self-Care | Sara Rose | 60 mins

We spend a lot of time on someone else’s schedule. When we finally get time to ourselves, we want to enjoy it to the fullest. Self-care is an important factor when it comes to taking care of ourselves and feeling well. Learn about self-care and where and how you might apply it in your life.

Wellness Webinar: Why is Change So Hard? | Sara Rose | 60 mins

Have you ever wondered how to get from point A to point B when meeting your health and wellness goals? Maybe you have already tried to make healthy changes several times, but couldn’t make progress? Peer through the looking glass to see what happens when we are trying to initiate a change. Learn some strategies that will help you move forward with change in any area of your life.

Wellness Webinar: True Refuge in Uncertain Times – A Mini-Retreat | Heather | 60 mins

Meditation isn’t about attaining an ideal state, but rather about being able to stay present with ourselves. This hour-long “mini-retreat” offers us an opportunity to explore the practices that lead to opening our hearts in all circumstances – even (or especially) the challenging ones.

Wellness Webinar: Managing Stress Through Mindfulness | Heather | 60 mins

Using neuroscience, contemplative techniques, and embodied practices, we will examine the way in which we relate to stress, as well as how we might respond with greater compassion to find ease.

Wellness Webinar: Establishing a Budget you Can Actually Keep | Hanna | 60 mins

The perfect budget helps us do three things: be more aware of spending, plan for the future, and prevent and recover from emergencies. Employees will come away with a game to begin the process of creating their own money system (budget), along with a low-stress perspective on budgeting. It is not necessary for employees to have financial information on hand for this class.

Wellness Webinar: Why Budgets are So Hard to Keep | Hanna | 60 mins

In this webinar, we’ll talk about why traditional budgets are so difficult to keep up with (hint: it’s not you). We’ll reframe how we think about budgets and explore the first two steps to building your own budget you can keep up with!

Wellness Webinar: Accountability and Your Finances | Hanna | 60 mins

Employees will come away with an understanding of how accountability is deeply engrained in us and why we rebel against it without knowing. They’ll also receive two tools they can use immediately to circumvent thoughts like “I have to…” and “I don’t want to, but I need to” and still get things done!

Wellness Webinar: How Procrastination Affects our Finances | Hanna | 60 mins

Once we understand the underlying and cyclical process that generates procrastination, we can begin to undermine it – and we can do this without shame, judgment, or forcing ourselves to do anything. Employees will come away with a greater understanding of the underlying causes of procrastination and two tools they can use immediately to begin to undermine procrastination and its ripples in their financial lives.

Wellness Webinar: Managing Stress and Anxiety through the 8 Dimensions of Well-Being | Phoebe | 60 mins

Creating a daily self-care practice is a process of understanding one’s individual needs and meeting them consistently. We’ll explore the eight dimensions of wellness and learn ways to meet stress and burnout with compassion and support. Leave with insights into enhanced focus, creativity, and heightened performance.

Wellness Webinar: Simple Living & Healthy Habits | Phoebe | 60 mins

“Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life.” — Gretchen Rubin A common misconception is that drastic changes are the only way to achieve a better life. Many employees feel paralyzed in their circumstances, burnt out, and unable to live freely. That said, lasting change does not need to come from a new house, career promotion, or large purchase — it’s actually small shifts in daily habits that create the slow build toward a life employees are more excited to live. In this webinar, employees will learn how to shift daily habits, joyfully build routines, and as a result, live more freely.

Wellness Webinar: Recover from Burnout for Good | Phoebe | 60 mins

With stress and anxiety at an all-time high, non-existent boundaries between work and personal life, and numerous barriers to taking any type of restorative vacation, many feel that they are unable to recalibrate. This webinar provides employees with ideas and inspiration for how to build a self-care practice that treats symptoms of burnout, prevents it from resurfacing, and supports daily well-being.

Wellness Webinar: I Am Here – Mindfulness for Inner Peace | Casey | 60 mins

Discover the benefits of mindfulness meditation, while also discovering how to create your own practice. You’ll will be guided through multiple mindfulness meditation exercises, including a loving-kindness meditation, a body scan, breathwork, and more. In addition, you’ll gain tools that can be implemented to support stress reduction, inner peace, increased calm and clarity, and improved focus for years to come.

Wellness Webinar: Beginning and Ending Your Day | Casey | 60 mins

This wellness workshop incorporates multiple tips and tools to help you create morning and evening wellness practices that support your overall well-being in mind, body, and spirit. Guidance on stress management, exercise, proper nutrition, mindset, positive, self-talk, and more are included. A brief guided mindfulness meditation is also featured at the end.

Wellness Webinar: Foundations of Self-Care | Casey | 60 mins

In this webinar, participants will learn science-based tips and tools that create the foundations of self-care in order to support their overall health and well-being. An overview of self-care, stress management and avoiding burnout will be covered. Plus, 12 foundational self-care topics that promote health and wellness in mind, body and spirit will be reviewed. These topics include: nutrition, fitness and movement, rest and relaxation, relationships, fun and laughter, inspiration, purpose, spirituality, meditation, mindset, self-love, and balance.