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Wellness Newsletter
January 2025
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Building Inner Resilience:
Navigating Modern Day Stress
Join Heidi Weiker for an engaging, fun, and impactful series that is not just another canned ‘stress-management’ class telling you what you already know – this is real-world, hands-on, and real-time. It’s jam-packed with relevant science, contemporary theory, and quick, yet powerful and proven practices. Together, we’ll dialogue, share, practice, and enjoy moving out of unrelenting distress; breathing into relaxed, calm, peaceful, and focused energy; building greater positivity; and attuning to and affirming our inner strengths.
Tuesdays, Jan. 28 - March 18, from 12-1 pm via Zoom
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Wednesdays, Jan. 22 - March 12,
12:30-1:30 pm via Zoom
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Work Happiness Together
Join the Wellness Program Team for an experiential book-based series to enhance your career well-being and build community here at the university. Author of The Work Happiness Method and positive psychology expert, Stella Grizont, will kick us off during session 1. Then, we will discuss one key inner skill covered in Stella's book each week. A copy of the book will be provided for each participant, and there will be weekly reading and other assignments to help you get the most out of this series.
Participants will learn:
- The three psychological traps that sabotage your happiness and success - and how to avoid them
- The power of emotions on your vision, decision making, and how to steer yourself towards greater possibilities
- How to stop comparing yourself to others and focus on what brings you greater energy
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Financial Wellness Series
With rising interest rates and dramatic price increases for daily living expenses, it has never been more important to learn how to become more financially savvy. This spring, the Wellness Program will offer 14 Financial Wellness sessions with Karen Braun, CPA, PhD, and former Professor of Accountancy at WSOM, plus Susan Fee, Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Financial Therapist.
Wednesdays, Jan. 15 - April 23, from 12-1 pm via Zoom
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Tuesdays Jan. 27 - March 18,
12:30-1:30 pm via Zoom
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Connection 101
Research indicates that strong relationships and human connection are foundational to our health, happiness and productivity. Join in this 8-week series, facilitated by Connection Labs, to learn about, explore, and discuss how relationships impact our lives and what we can do to strengthen them. Learn essential skills through a strengths-based approach to boost communication and connection with the people in your professional and personal lives. Learn more about Connection 101.
This series is highly interactive and includes required prep work for each session. It will be a small group experience with limited space, so please sign up only if you are interested in, and willing to, do the necessary work. Register by January 10.
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Plant Powered Challenge
If you're looking to boost your energy, enhance your sleep, improve your diet, and take control of your health, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Join the Plant Powered Challenge, a free 30-day initiative hosted by Corewell Health's Lifestyle Medicine team, from Jan. 6 to Feb. 5.
In 30 days, challenge participants will learn how a whole foods plant-based (WFPB) diet, which focuses on whole, minimally-processed plant foods and limiting added sugar, can help you maintain a healthy weight, increase energy, and prevent disease. Here's what you can expect from the challenge:
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Weekly Challenges: Make small, manageable changes to your diet each week.
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Educational Webinars: Gain insights from physicians, chefs, health coaches, and registered dietitians through science-backed webinars on the benefits of a plant-forward diet. Recordings will be available. View the schedule of webinars.
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Delicious Recipes: Discover new and tasty recipes that not only satisfy your taste buds but also elevate your culinary skills.
This challenge is free to join, so you can invite your family and friends to participate, too! It’s the perfect way to kick off 2025 and your journey toward your healthiest self. You’ll be empowered with knowledge and tools to create lasting change.
Register by January 6 and make sure to sign up with a case.edu email address. Participation is eligible for a Nutrition/Weight Management Wellness Program Incentive.
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Zumba
Join One to One Fitness instructor Mia Wang for a 10-week moderate intensity Zumba class that combines Latin and international music with slow and fast dance moves. Designed to tone and sculpt the body, it is so fun that you forget you are working out. All levels are welcome, and you can feel free to dance like no one is watching! Sessions will occur in person.
Wednesdays, Jan. 29 - April 2, from 5:15-6 pm at the Veale Recreation Center in the Multipurpose Room (201)
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Chair Massages Available Jan. 14
A chair massage can help relax and loosen sore muscles, as well as reduce stress, tension, and anxiety. You can experience all these benefits and more by treating yourself to a chair massage to kick off Spring semester 2025! Appointments are available:
Tuesday, January 14, from 11 am - 2 pm,
in Thwing Center, Meeting Room 224
The chair massages, provided by One to One Fitness, last for 13 minutes and cost $15. Registration and pre-payment are required. You can see available times, reserve your slot, and pay via the link to the left. Enjoy!
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Mindfulness Matters in the Classroom
Are you interested in learning more about using mindfulness in the classroom with students? If yes, please consider attending the Mindfulness Matters in the Classroom sessions to learn more.
The Mindfulness Matters Team will be hosting a series of 4 workshops, led by Suzanne Rusnak, so faculty can learn more about offering brief mindfulness activities with students, based on the original research that the team conducted at CWRU. These experiential sessions will prepare faculty to better support student learning in the classroom.
Suzanne Rusnak will train participants in the Mindfulness Matters model on Jan. 30, Feb. 6, Feb 13, and March 6 from 12-1 pm on each date. Sessions will be recorded and sent to registrants.
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Did You Know? Incentives and Recordings
Please note that nearly all of the multi-week series offered through the Wellness Program are eligible for a Wellness Program Incentive. Incentive details will be communicated to all registrants for a given series, but feel free to inquire ahead of time if you are curious.
We also want to remind faculty and staff that we record the majority of our programs offered via Zoom and make the recordings available to everyone who is registered. So, even if you cannot attend the live sessions each week, you can still participate on your own time via the recordings and receive credit toward a Wellness Program Incentive.
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New! Mindful Eating: Transform Your Relationship with Food
Do you find yourself eating when you’re not truly hungry or turning to snacks for comfort? Are you tired of mindlessly overeating or feeling out of control around food? Join Dr. Susan Albers, Cleveland Clinic psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of 9 books on mindful eating, for a transformative 7-session series designed to help you transform your relationship with food.
Thursdays, January 9 - February 27 (no session 2/20), from 12-1 pm via Zoom
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Mindful Movement
Mindful Movement is a gentle, accessible approach to yoga that encourages people to tune into what they are feeling as they move and make choices based on their present moment embodied experience. During this 10-week series, instructor Julie Schlemmer will present options for movement, and there is no priority placed on stretching more or holding positions for a longer period of time.
Mondays, January 6 - March 17 (no session 1/20), from 12-12:50 pm via Zoom
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Wednesdays, Jan. 15 - Mar. 5, from 12-1 pm via Zoom | |
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Sugar Fix
Join Lindsay Malone, MS, RD, CSO, LD and CWRU faculty member, for this 8-week series to learn how to remove added sugar from your diet and take control of your overall health.
Hundreds of CWRU employees have participated in this series and experienced great benefits associated with eliminating sugar intake. Participants will kick off their sugar awareness by watching the documentary Fed Up before session 1.
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Body Weight HIIT
Get the most from your workout time with these fast, fun, 45-minute High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) sessions led by Mary Ann Dobbins. Participants will learn to use their body weight and common items like a chair to work their whole body.
Tuesdays, January 7 - March 4,
from 12-12:45 pm via Zoom
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Core and More
This series combines core strengthening with whole body stretching. Other than a workout mat or large towel, no equipment is necessary to participate. Mary Ann Dobbins will lead you through core exercises that will become a bit more challenging each week.
Fridays, January 10 - March 7,
from 12:15-1 pm via Zoom
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Muscle Conditioning
Devote time to building your physical fitness with this weekly strength training class. Join One to One Fitness instructor Gab'riel Shabazz for 10 weeks of Muscle Conditioning. Any equipment that may be used in addition to body weight will be provided.
Tuesdays, Jan. 7 - March 11, from 5:30-6:15 pm at the Veale Recreation Center
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New! Pilates Mat
Pilates Mat is a low impact class that focuses on muscle tone, balance, posture, body alignment, and mind-body awareness. Instructor LaShundra Epps will concentrate on each movement being precise, steady, and controlled, with associated breath control.
Wednesdays, Jan. 8 - March 12, from 12-12:45 pm
at One to One Fitness
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Vinyasa Flow Yoga
This Vinyasa Flow Yoga class, instructed by Julie Brown, will provide an opportunity for participants to build strength while achieving the mental health benefits associated with regular yoga practice. Appropriate for those with some prior yoga experience.
Thursdays, Jan. 9 - March 13, from 12-12:45 pm
at One to One Fitness
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New! Fostering the Mindset and Skills for High-Impact Teamwork
Are you interested in enhancing your team's relationships and productivity? Dr. Tyler Reimschisel, founding associate provost of Interprofessional and Interdisciplinary Education and Research at CWRU, will conduct an 8-week series aimed at improving your teamwork knowledge, skills, and mindset.
Topics that will be addressed include valuing the perspectives of different team members, fostering psychological safety, enhancing your emotional intelligence, demonstrating emotional regulation, conducting more productive team meetings, improving your listening capabilities, giving and receiving feedback, and managing conflict productively.
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Mondays, Jan. 27 - March 24 (no session on 3/10), from 12-1 pm via Zoom | | | |
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Reflection Point - Spring Semester
There are two new Reflection Point groups coming in January! For those of you who have always had a hankering to try this program but are not sure you have the time to read three books, we will offer one series focused exclusively on short stories. The reading load will be lighter, but the conversations will be every bit as rich! Interested in learning more or joining a group? Please contact Elizabeth Click at erc10@case.edu. Those who have never participated in Reflection Point will be prioritized.
Short Stories Group - Wednesdays Jan. 22 - April 9 from 12-1 pm via Zoom
Book Group - Thursdays Jan. 23 - April 10 from 12-1 pm via Zoom
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CWRU Wellness Team
Elizabeth Click, Medical Director - erc10@case.edu | 216-368-5790
Deanna Duffy, Wellness Manager - dxd516@case.edu | 216-368-5997
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