"Boost your wellbeing during the crisis.

The Covid-19 pandemic brings big challenges for our mental health, whether you're isolating at home or trying to live with the new restrictions. This program can help you cope and find a little more happiness in these crazy times.

Learn how to be happier.
10 Days of Happiness is a free online coaching program which guides you through daily actions for happier living."

"Below is a list of 121 employee wellness program ideas that you can easily implement at your office.

Free bonus: Download this entire list as a PDF. Easily save it on your computer for quick reference or print it for your company’s next Wellness Meeting. Includes 10 bonus ideas not found in this post."

"We’ve rounded up the best YouTube workouts — we’re talking everything from traditional aerobics, to ballet, to high-intensity interval training routines — so you can keep your physique in tip-top shape."

Techniques begin at 3:10!

This video gives you three tools for deep breathing to help manage stress anywhere, and any time you need it.

Pursed Lip Breathing; Deep breathing; Alternating Nostril Breathing

This article explains 6 ways to use breathing for stress relief and mental wellness.

"‘Tis the season of gratitude and reflection, of homecomings and joyous tidings... At least, that’s what the end-of-year holiday time usually brings. While we acknowledge that this year has been anything but usual, simply saying “2020 is different” feels like too obvious an understatement.

Many of us simply aren’t ready or even willing to reflect on a year of thwarted plans, grave safety concerns, and extraordinary challenges to our core values and identities. Even so, we realize that some kind of closure, however small or personal, is essential to moving forward with courage and wholeheartedness.

With this toolkit, we share our favorite practices for heart-centered breathwork, movement and mindful presence. The journey of returning to joy can carry us through sorrow, anger or exhaustion, and we provide tools here to support you with release, relief and rest.

In this toolkit, you’ll find practices for:

Hope

Rest

Reflection

Joy

Connection

Processing Grief

Letting Go

Sitting with Stress

Enter your email to download the toolkit today."

"Enjoy doing yoga workouts from home with your favourite trainers such as Jillian Michaels, Jane Fonda, Billy Blanks Jr., Tara Stiles and many others. This channel might offer the best variety of any out there – It even includes meditations with Deepak Chopra (maybe a good way to relax AFTER your workout!)"

Create healthier and happier employees and a stronger workplace health culture. Become an employer of choice – receive recognition from Alberta Health Services.

Tool Kits are available for: alcohol reduction, healthy eating, physical activity, quitting smoking & UV protection.

What Is It?

This guide connects research and actionable strategies to create a 360-degree view of adult social-emotional learning in K-12 education today. Learn what it means to address the social-emotional needs of teachers and staff, learn about different approaches to adult SEL, and explore best practices for measuring and implementing adult SEL across your school or district.

In the guide read about:
1. What Is Adult SEL?
2. How to Strengthen Adult SEL
3. Effective Adult SEL Strategies
4. How to Measure Adult SEL
5. Adult SEL Resources

"More and more, district leaders are focusing on promoting and assessing students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) competencies.

Rigorous research shows that SEL leads to greater academic achievement, better mental health, and career success. Your district community -- from administrators, to parents, to teachers -- is likely bought into the idea that SEL can help children deal with the stressors and challenges in school and life.

But in order to cultivate students’ social-emotional skills, the adults in your building also need to feel supported and valued. Promoting student SEL starts with adults. In other words -- is your district attending to the social-emotional development and self-care of educators and staff?

This guide will equip you with the strategies and tools you need to strengthen adult SEL. By the end, you’ll understand different approaches to adult SEL as well as how to measure and implement it in your district.

Download Now: Adult SEL Toolkit [Free Worksheets & Resources]"

The Comprehensive School Health (CSH) Hub is a community for individuals involved in teaching, learning, and researching CSH at the post-secondary level.

There are a wealth of K-12 resources available on this site for health. Select the Resources tab, and then select K-12 or copy and pasted this web address into your browser https://cshhub.com/resource_type/csh-resources/

Topics include:
*Healthy Eating
*Physical Activity
*Mental Health for students
*Mental Health for teachers

"During times of crisis, it can be a natural instinct to focus our full attention on our teams, and forget to care for ourselves. However, burned-out leaders aren't able to serve themselves or their teams, and will struggle to effectively address the situations at hand.
Maggie Hodge shares a week's worth of daily wellness practices for the mind, body, and soul, to promote creativity, productivity, and wellness."

"Do Yoga with Me is one of my personal favourite sources for good home workouts, obviously of the yoga variety! Many of their classes are filmed outdoors in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. The level of instruction is top-notch and there are videos that focus on pretty much every part of the body (e.g. hips, hamstrings, back, etc.), so you can target the area that you need to work on most."

Any video with a plus symbol in an orange/yellow circle requires a subscription but all others are free to access. You can use the filters at the top of the page to filter your search.

This resource is an assessment and planning tool for assessing one's wellness in physical, psychological, emotions, relational, spiritual, and workplace/professional wellness.

With ideas from EfficienTEACH you can teach better and save time for what matters most.

This project provides you with research-based teaching practices you can use in class tomorrow to save time AND teach better.

Explore ideas to help you with:
- student engagement
- communication
- memorization
- practice/activities
- assessment
- material/content
- feedback
- routines and habits
- discussion
- teacher tasks
- reflection
- community and relationships
- lesson planning
- teacher wellness

H.O.P.E. (Helping Others thru Peer Education) is Saskatchewan's first Recovery College!
They offer virtual, in person and blending learning opportunities for FREE!

You can:
*take full courses
*listen to Lunch Byte podcast episodes (or register to listen live)

Current course offerings include:
*Adulting 101
*Positivity & Optimism
*Female Empowerment
*Talk-Ask-Listen
*Loneliness & Isolation
*Improving Self-Esteem
*Recovery 101
*Anxiety 101
*Understanding Fear
*Depression 101
*Kids & Stress
*ADHD
*Art Therapy
*Anger Management
*Challenging Procrastination
*Understanding Grief & Loss
*Body Image
& much more!

These fun workout videos include dances to Disney tunes and all other sorts of fun music.
Move. Get Fit. Have fun!

Give your eyes a break with this audio-only Digital Wellness Break. Follow along as teacher Stephanie's voice guides you step-by-step through "Tense and Release," a mind-body-breath integration that's designed for children and effective for all ages.

TODAY’S MINDFUL MOVEMENT
🦦 TENSE AND RELEASE 🦦

“It’s the end of a very long day. Back-to-back-to-back meetings. You sign-off from work, gather your belongings, rush out the door... only to get stuck in traffic. Tension rises.

A busy lifestyle with no time to relax can lead to frustration, tension, and chronic stress.

Making time in our busy days to mindfully unwind can help. Tense and Release is one of our favorite relaxation exercises to do just this. By consciously tensing and releasing our bodies, we are able to tune out what is going on outside and tune in to what’s going on inside. And in tune, consciously let go of the tension and stress we carry.

This audio-only relaxation will allow you to return to a state of balance. Just hit 'play' and give your eyes a rest for the next four minutes.” (Yoga Ed.)

What Is It?

Practicing mindfulness can help relieve the stressors of school, work, and life. As an educator, you may not know where to start. How can you make time for self-care to protect your own mental health? How can you incorporate mindfulness exercises into meetings with colleagues and/or interactions with students?

In this guide you'll learn how to develop a personal mindfulness practice (complete with a sample breathing exercise!), and how to get started cultivating mindfulness skills in students or other adults. You'll walk away with simple ways to work mindfulness into your daily life. In the guide you will learn more about:
I. Benefits of Mindfulness for Educators
II. Practice a Mindful Breathing Exercise
III. Sample Mindfulness Exercises
IV. Tips for Facilitating Mindfulness Exercises

Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky - one of the world's leading Positive Psychology experts - shares the latest insights from her ground-breaking work on happiness....

She focuses on three main habits in this webinar...
1. Gratitude
2. Acts of Kindness
3. Social interactions and connections