Mental Wellness
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Mental
Wellness
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- RIT/
- Better Me Employee Wellness/
- Dimensions of Wellness/
- Mental Wellness
Better Me helps RIT employees improve their happiness through awareness and acceptance of their feelings, recognizing limitations, and coping effectively with life’s challenges. Better Me offers this support through two workshop series and RIT’s Employee Assistance Program.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
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Personal issues, planning for life events, or managing daily life can affect your work, health, and family. Regular full- and part-time employees, their spouses or partners, and eligible children can receive counseling, financial resources, legal support and work-life solutions though RIT’s EAP (Employee Assistance Program).
ComPsych Wellness Workshops
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Better Me partnered with ComPsych to provide free wellness workshops that cover a variety of topics. The workshops are 45-50 minutes long and offer information, education, tips, habits, and best practices in areas like personal resilience, parenting, family and relationships, financial well-being, stress and anxiety management, and behavioral health.
- Register for The Sandwich Generation: Balancing Your Personal Life with the Needs of Older Loved Ones (July 9)
- Register for Managing Staff Through Stressful Situations (July 11)
- Register for Living Simply: Simplify Your Life (July 24)
- Psychological Avoidance and its Impact on Your Mental Health (recording)
- Sleep: An Essential Component of Health and Well-Being (recording)
- Planning a Family Vacation (recording)
- Mental Health Awareness for Leaders (recording)
- Stress: A Way of Life or a Fact of Life (recording)
- Avoid Burnout: Self-Assessment Methods and Strategies for Self-Care (recording)
- Secrets to Self-Motivation (recording)
- Managing Holiday Stress (recording)
- Being Adaptive in an Ever Changing World (recording)
- Gratitude: A Skill for Happier Living (recording)
- The Psychology of Saving Money and Other Good Financial Habits (recording)
- The Impact of Attitude on Work & Life (recording)
- Emotional Eating: The Connection Between Mood & Food (recording)
- How to Delegate at Work and in Life (recording)
- Relaxation Micro-moments and Winding Down Techniques (recording)
- The Joy of Movement (recording)
- Managing Remote or Hybrid Employees (recording)
- Strengthening Your Ability to Empathize (recording)
- Deskercise! Taking Care of Your Body During the Work Day (recording)
- Breathing Techniques for Mental and Physical Health (recording)
- Habits for Physical and Mental Health (recording)
- Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace (recording)
- Balancing Work & Life (recording)
- Tools to Handle Stress (recording)
- Using Kindness to Achieve Personal Success and Happiness (recording)
- Happiness: A Key to Life's Satisfaction (recording)
- Mindfulness: Being Present in Your Work & Life (recording)
- Letting Go of the Things That Hold You Back (recording)