Health and Wellbeing Month 2020

October is Mental Health Month and Safe Work Month in NSW.

At UNSW it will be Health and Wellbeing Month and there are special events and activities for staff all through the month! For students, please visit the Mental Health Month website here.

We have mental health webinars, fitness classes, cooking demonstrations, personal nutrition consultations and weekly meditation classes available.

Thanks to our partners at the Health Promotions Unit, we are also able to offer you three special webinars - "Worried About Anxiety?", "Food. Mood. Free Choice?" and "The Imposters".

We also have a survey for you - the UNSW Medicine Cultural Diversity Working Group is inviting UNSW staff to take a survey about work quality and discrimination, satisfaction with life and psychological distress. The survey is open to full-time, part-time and casual staff and can be completed here. There is a chance to win a $50 Coles/Myer gift card!

Worried About Anxiety?

Life can be stressful and we all worry sometimes, but how much worry is okay?

Dr Alanya Drummond shares her experience of living with anxiety, the impacts of worrying too much and ways that worry can be managed.

This will be a Teams Live event to be held on Monday 19 October from 12pm-1pm.

For more information and the booking link, visit our Events page here. 

 

Mental Health Webinars

Benestar will be providing a webinar on the topic "Dealing with Anger" at 10am on Thursday 22 October.

For more information and the booking link, visit our Events page here. 

Have you tried Uprise? Uprise is our new personal mental health coach for staff - you can get it here.

During October, Uprise will be providing four mental health webinars:

  1. Finding Your Core Beliefs - Wednesday 7 October
  2. Tune In Mindfulness - Thursday 15 October
  3. Dealing with Toxic Positivity - Wednesday 21 October
  4. Building Self Esteem - Wednesday 28 October

All Uprise webinars run from 12.30pm-1pm.

For more information and the booking links, visit our Events page here. 

The Imposters

Do you put your success down to luck? Believe it or not, Imposter Syndrome can impact everyone, from students starting out to Academics at the top of their field.

Join this session on Tuesday 6 October from 2pm-3pm to hear those experiences and learn techniques to quiet that voice in your head.

For more information and the booking links, visit our Events page here. 

 

Fitness Classes

Some of our fitness classes can be done right at your desk - no need to go anywhere and no need for special equipment!

Half-hour fitness classes will run at 11am every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the month, starting on Tuesday 6 October.

For more information on the different classes available and the booking links, visit our Events page here. 

 

Cook-along Cooking Demonstrations

Have you ever watched a cooking demonstration and wished you got to eat the meal at the end? Well, now you can! These online cooking demonstrations will be run as a 'cook-along', so that you can prepare the meal at home at the same time as the demonstrator!

Recipes will be provided in advance so you can have all the ingredients ready to go. Two cook-along demonstrations will be held in October:

  1. On Wednesday 14 October from 1pm-2pm, our demonstrator Robbie will show you how to cook Chili Sin Carne.
  2. On Tuesday 27 October from 12pm-1pm, Robbie will show you how to cook Tuna & Vegetable Pasta.

For more information and the booking links, visit our Events page here. 

 

Personal Nutrition Consultations

We will be providing free personal nutrition consultations for staff on Wednesdays and Thursdays in October, starting on Thursday 8 October.

Staff members can book in for a one-on-one consultation with an SMG Health Dietician. Consultations will be 45 minutes long and bookings are essential. 

For more information and the booking link, visit our Events page here. 

 

Food. Mood. Free Choice?

We all know the role that diet plays in our physical health, but is there a connection between our mood and overall wellbeing? Do we really have free choice over our food choices in Australia?

Explore these questions with the leading researchers in the field - Professor Felice Jacka, Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University, and Dr Alexandra Jones, Research Fellow in Food Policy and Law at The George Institute. 

This will be an online event held on Wednesday 21 October from 11am-12pm.

For more information and the booking links, visit our Events page here. 

 

Weekly Meditation Classes - Don't Forget to Breathe

This meditation program for beginners will run every Tuesday morning at 8.30am, starting on Tuesday 13 October and finishing on Tuesday 3 November.

Corrie Buchanan, UNSW Wellbeing Champion and qualified Meditation Coach, is generously providing these sessions free for all staff.

For more information and the booking link, visit our Events page here.