Develop Healthy Habits to Lower Stress and Improve Work-life Balance
Emotional wellness is the process of recognizing, understanding and accepting your emotions. It involves managing life's challenges, building nurturing and supportive relationships and fostering genuine connections with those around you.
Some tips to encourage emotional wellness include:
- Use mindfulness and other healthy ways to lower stress
- Develop a healthy work-life balance
- Participate in social events that create community
Supporting Emotional Well-being
The Saint Louis University Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a feature of the employee health package that provides access to professional counseling on a confidential basis. In addition, EAP services include training supervisors on how to refer employees if the need arises.
Confidential professional counseling is provided through ComPsych at no cost to staff and their families who are coping with a personal or family crisis.
Call 800-859-9319 to make an appointment or visit www.guidanceresources.com for more information. To register online, please use the Company ID "slueap" and create your username and password.
Noon on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Virtual classes on Zoom.
Meeting ID: 962 6979 8657 Password: Mindful!
Weekly mindfulness sessions are intended to help faculty and staff develop ways of finding joy and maintaining balance amid the “ups and downs” of life. The program consists of 30-minute weekly sessions hosted at noon.
The first five minutes are for settling in and centering; the next 15 minutes are for talking about an informal mindfulness topic such as “Dealing with Troublesome Emotions” or “Creating a Pause Between a Triggering Event and our Response to that Event.” The final 10 minutes are mostly silent meditation.
The Mindfulness Program is led by Professor of Practice David Lander. Professor Lander has been connected with the school for many years. He helped start the Legal Clinics program, taught full-time for two years and has served as an adjunct 20 times, teaching such courses as bankruptcy law, commercial law, consumer law and secured transactions. He has had a personal meditation practice for 15 years and has taken courses in mindfulness teaching from MindfulSchools.org. In July 2015, he retired from a successful business bankruptcy private practice of law.
For more information, contact Professor David Lander at david.lander@slu.edu or 314-750-7773.
Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use challenges. Each training requires two hours of online pre-work before the in-person or Zoom training. Participants will be set up in MHFA Connect well before the training day.
Mental Health First Aid Registration
For more information, contact Tori Harwood.
Getting Real: Does All That Advice Help or Hurt?
11 a.m., June 11, 2024
Let’s face it: we’re all suffering from information overload. There’s so much conflicting advice and everyone’s an expert. Simply keeping up with it all is exhausting. And trying to determine what’s valuable and what’s not? We give up. If this sounds familiar, this webinar is for you. Tune in for real tools to help you figure out what actually works for you and your family. Back by popular demand, guest Chelsea Elliott will share simple tactics to help you trust your instincts and feel confident in your choices…as a parent, employee, caregiver, and person. Join us for practical strategies you can put to use today. Register for free to join live or receive the recording.
Disability and Neurodiversity: Parenting a Child with ADD/ADHD
Noon, June 11, 2024
This seminar provides a general overview of ADD/ADHD, including testing and diagnosis. The session will also go over treatment options for ADD/ADHD as well as strategies for success.
Financial Wellness- Creating A Budget
Noon, June 12, 2024
Learn about the basics of budgeting and how to better manage your money. This program discusses determining financial priorities, how to reduce expenses, recognizing debt trouble and strategies for saving.
How to Teach Your Teen Resilience
11 a.m., June 20, 2024
Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully coping and adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences. For teens, difficult life experiences can change the way they view and interact with the world around them, and this can affect mental health, connections with others, and quality of life. Life does not come with a map or a set of instructions, so how do we equip teens with the skills to successfully cope and adapt to challenging life experiences? *This webinar is suitable for US and global employees alike.
Succeed at Work - Juggling Act: The Five Bucket Principle
Noon, June 20, 2024
Are you struggling to find balance? Learn practical strategies for an integrated approach to find balance in the five key areas of life: family/friends, work, giving back, finance and health.
Child Care and Parenting: Internet Information for Parents
Noon, June 26, 2024
In this webinar, we will review the language, identify concerns and risks, teach strategies to increase safety online, discuss instant messaging, texting, social networking and chat rooms and identify resources and monitoring software.
Supporting Spiritual Well-being
Connecting to Something Greater Than Yourself
Spiritual wellness is focused on a connection to something greater than yourself. It can provide you with a set of values, morals and beliefs to help guide your actions, forming habits that give you a sense of purpose and meaning. Steps to help with spiritual well-being include:
- Check in with your spiritual wellness
- Reflect on your actions
- Cultivate peace
- Show compassion
- Practice tolerance
Spiritual Wellness Resources and Events
Department of Mission and Identity
Employee Well-Being partners with the Saint Louis University Department of Mission and Identity.
Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, sought and saw God in all things and believed himself called to be a co-laborer with God. His vision of the world lies at the heart of the Jesuit method of teaching, research and service in place at Saint Louis University.
Saint Louis University’s Division for Mission and Identity invites you to discover what it means to work at a Jesuit university and the difference it makes to your profession and field of study.
Mission and Identity Programming
Mission Matters Podcast
The Mission Matters podcast is a weekly spotlight on a person, initiative or program at SLU that incarnates the Jesuit mission of the University. Hosted by Virginia Herbers, director of mission formation, each episode begins with a brief reflection, setting the stage for a member of the SLU community to give us a glimpse into how the mission is alive.