Understanding Your Travel Benefits
The winter holidays are fast approaching and many staff and faculty are preparing for vacations both at home and abroad. A medical emergency while travelling can be a frightening and also costly experience. Join UBC Benefits Administrator, Janet McHugh, in this 1-hour session on understanding your travel benefits and ensure that your well-earned vacation is as stress […]
Motivational Interviewing for helping Professionals-Introduction
Helping professionals increasingly recognize the benefits of using motivational interviewing (MI), an evidence-based communication style shown to enhance engagement, increase readiness, reduce discord, and guide conversations to support health and related change. This two-day knowledge and skills-based workshop provides a foundation in MI, emphasizing the core elements, key skills and strategies that are helpful in […]
Lighten Up Your Day
Injecting humour both at work and in your personal life is just what the doctor ordered. Laughing does not just feel good, it also has a positive effect on your health by helping to relieve stress, tension, and anxiety and by increasing your heart rate and blood circulation. Humour also offers far-reaching psychological benefits, as […]
Understanding Your Travel Benefits
The spring and summer are fast approaching and many staff and faculty are preparing for vacations both at home and abroad. A medical emergency while travelling can be a frightening and also costly experience. Join UBC Benefits Specialist, Stephanie Mah, in this 1-hour session on understanding your travel benefits and ensure that your well-earned vacation […]
Suicide Awareness Workshop 2017
Please wear orange on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 UBC’s Suicide Awareness Day, to show your support for those who have been affected by suicide, and those who are struggling with suicidal thoughts.
Changes to Smoking Gazebos on Campus
You have probably noticed by now that the wooden gazebo in front of the Administration Building has been removed and on July 2 and 3 the steel gazebo near the Library building will be moved to the location outside the ADM building. This means that we will have one less smoking gazebo on campus. Alternative […]