Virtual Team Leader Support: Update!

Acts of Everyday Wellness at St. Leonard

Physical Wellness:

Low noise and vibration exposure

Rest periods for impact stress and soft-tissue compression

Properly fitting gloves and safety equipment

Increase use of indoor walking paths during breaks

Environmental Wellness:

Options to use alternative lighting for offices and work areas

Comfortable working temperatures

Calm and equitable leadership decision-making

Nutritional Wellness:

Increased healthy food options for employees during meals

Increased healthy options in vending services

Increased healthy options in the mini mart

Increased healthy alternatives during carry ins

Intellectual Wellness:
Continued in-services on relevant topics

Increased tuition-reimbursement usage for continuing education

Increased use of wellness information pamphlets

Emotional Wellness:

Varied work assignments to decrease boredom

Shared supervisory responsibility

More employee control over work assignments

Social Wellness:

Vital Life Community Teams report stable programs and attendance

Increased communication and camaraderie

Social clicks are gaining new members

Spiritual Wellness:

 Increased reflection and meditation in quiet areas noted

 Increased sharing of seasonal plans that support beliefs and values

 Increased effort to find work life balance

Occupational Wellness:

Increased desire to add skills and competencies

Increased response to feedback from rounding reports

Increased watchfulness of the StuderGroup initiatives especially concerning completion of rounding issues.


Virtual Team Leader Support please feel free to add your observations concerning acts of everyday wellness and we will circulate our findings.

Thanks, Debra

March 2012 Employee Wellness Moments!

Physical Environment Learn a new dance step to increase brain neuroplasticity Evaluate the biodiversity of your office space (what thrives well together) Make a list of footwork patterns that you use during your daily work and evaluate your poster, stance, and forward momentum Plant ½ of your garden space in native plants to save on watering and care Make a list of your workout social support system Pack your lunch waste-free…no throw away bags, cartons, or cups. Volunteer to be the social workout support system for someone else Lighten all terrain or other vehicle loads when possible to save resources Remember to celebrate incrementally reaching or getting close to your fitness goals If you are working outside this summer refresh your sun safety supplies Social Spiritual Upload a free social or game application to your cell phone to share with others Plan for a regular time of meditation or devotion Learn a new social media program or try Skype with a friend Study something specific about your beliefs and values Create a murder mystery virtual team Keep a notebook of positive spiritual experiences Create a social innovation team for public/private sector diversity issues Support your spiritual growth and enhance your intuition Lunch and Learn with mobile desktop options Take a mini break and feel the awe of nature or the feeling of being or having a good friend Nutritional Occupational Plan a team garden for your summer veggies Take responsibility for new events at work (find a way to contribute) Have a healthy snack or appetizer shortcut competition Ask for feedback on an assignment or performance March is berries and cherries month! Celebrate by featuring this in a dessert Be a BFW (Best friend at work) Organize your food prep area; updating cleaning supplies too Find a sense of purpose in everything that you do at work Check food storage and prep temperatures Prioritize you work depending on the fun factor…do the most difficult tasks first Intellectual Emotional Place a doodle pad by the phone to boost neuron growth! Try reducing your need to win in a conflict Deep breath slow and gently to reactivate the brain! Build a network of social support Find a topic to debate with a coworker to strengthen critical thinking Draw a cartoon of your typical workday Listening to music bolsters emotional intelligence! Each day do a couple of laughter exercises with a coworker Play a game of mimicking famous people to activate several areas of the brain With a coworker do something totally different on your work break (helps to fuel creativity) The employee wellness ideas listed above are low cost/no cost activities that you and your employees can mix or match with previously submitted wellness ideas. These ideas can be used to create wellness moments that focus on the eight dimensions of wellness to enhance your Vital Life Community!

Vital Life Stories: Program Administrative Assistant Tina Huskey!

Vital Life Stories! Kristin Pitstick Exercise Physiologist!

Vital Life Community Focus

The Vital Life Wellness Program is based up 8 key essential human ecologies that we must adapt to and exploit for beneficial purposes and they are:

· Social

· Nutritional

· Physical

· Environmental

· Occupational

· Intellectual

· Spiritual

· Emotional

As an adaptive animal these are the elements or ecologies that we must have knowledge or command of to be able to be successful human beings.

Note we don't say to "survive", because we want to be more than just humans "doing" we want to be humans "being". To accomplish this outcome we have to have priorities to be able to go forth; that triad of priorities is identified as the Vital Life three-legged stool on which the entire program is based; those priorities are:

· NUTRITION – we must survive

· FITNESS – we must survive

· SOCIALIZATION – we must survive

Once this triad is established as a basis for all else we do then we must do what the human being does so well, learn and grow. We must learn how to inculcate the other five human ecologies into our rhythms of daily living if we are to become whole well round human beings, fully human and fully alive in mind, body and spirit. Bill Witte