Dear Faculty and Staff Colleagues,
As we complete a long and momentous year supporting our students, it is time to pause for rejuvenation and renewal as a faculty and staff community. Please mark your calendars to participate in a special event sponsored by Human Resources:
Day of Wellness for Faculty and Staff
Friday, June 17, 2022
8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Wheelock Student Center
You may participate in all or part of the day. To help us plan for lunch and other activities, we would like to get a count of potential participants. To let us know if you are interested in participating in any of the day’s events, please complete this online form by Wednesday, June 8, 2022.
The day will include:
- Breakfast sponsored by our retirement plan record-keeper, TIAA
- A kick-off address by the award-winning public health and organizational wellness expert, Kris Mereigh (introduced below)
- Wellness-related door prizes
- Breakout sessions cultivating and celebrating wellness in many of its forms including mental, physical, and financial wellness
- Boxed lunches along with guided options for spending the lunch hour connecting with one another around wellness topics, participating in mindful eating, or enjoying some solitude
- Opportunities for inclusive physical activity including low-impact yoga for all bodies and abilities, and a walking meditation in the natural environment of campus
- At the end of the formal program at 2:30 p.m. until 5 p.m., staff who have participated in any of the events of the day will have an opportunity to engage in a self-guided wellness pursuit of their choice as paid work time.
Introducing Kick-Off Speaker Kris Mereigh:
We are especially excited to welcome Kris Mereigh (she/they) as she presents our kick-off session, “Healing our Community through Community Care.” Kris is CEO of Equitable Wellbeing Consulting and a Certified Wellness Specialist. Kris holds a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and is an award-winning public health and organization wellbeing expert who has also served as a public health advisor to the National College Health Association. Kris strives to increase “community care” in the workplace by designing well-being strategies that emphasize the nexus between diversity and inclusion and wellness/public health. In addition to her kick-off speech, Kris will present an interactive breakout session addressing burnout.
We hope to see you on June 17!
Your Colleagues in Human Resources
Nancy Nieraeth, SHRM-SCP, SPHR | Associate Vice President for Human Resources and Chief People Officer