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 […]
Canadas Greenest Employers 2020
With Earth Day just around the corner, we are pleased to share that – for the seventh consecutive year – UBC has been named one of Canada’s Greenest Employers in 2019.
UBCO Staff & Faculty Are the Champions!
1st Annual Step It Up Challenge Trophy was presented to UBCO Staff and Faculty in recognition of the UBC Okanagan 2017 Sports Day participants taking a lot more steps than the UBC Vancouver 2017 Sports Day staff and faculty on May 5, 2017. Let’s show them we can do it again in 2018! Pictured here […]
Priorities and Challenges in Rural Indigenous Pallative Care: Cultural Safety Revisited
Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention Susana Caxaj, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan, and Kaela Schill, MSc student, Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, will outline findings of a rural Indigenous palliative care literature review and how cultural safety […]
Psychology Clinic at UBC Okanagan Launches Additional Services
The Psychology Clinic at UBC Okanagan provides empirically based assessment and therapy, and is currently accepting self-referrals for evaluation of adults with suspected learning disabilities (i.e., poor academic achievement, deficits in attention, learning, memory, and intellectual capacity) and neuropsychological disorders (i.e., traumatic brain injury, stroke, dementia, etc.). Read more
Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power that Elevates
Join with the Faculty of Education for a public lecture on compassion at work. Suffering in the workplace can rob colleagues and cooworkers of humanity and motivation and is an unrecognized and costly drain on organizational potential. Marshalling evidence from two decades of field research, scholar and consultant Dr. Monica Worline will share in this […]
Mindfulness Drop Ins
WEEKLY ~ STARTING MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 Monday to Friday (every day) 12:00 pm to 12:45 pm Location: Spiritual/Multi-Faith Room, UNC 328 No cost Wear comfortable clothes, no equipment required. For more information please contact Jeanette Vinek, jeanette.vinek@ubc.ca
30 Day Mindfulness Challenge
Online training supports people as they ‘return to busy’ in September. The online 30 Day Mindfulness Challenge is just 5-10 minutes a day and has proven to lower stress, increase resilience and improve performance. Sign up to take the 30 Day Mindfulness Challenge starting on Monday, September 18, 2017. The first 25 UBC Okanagan Faculty and Staff members that register are eligible […]
Update on UBC Wellbeing Activities
I hope that everyone has had an amazing summer despite the flooding and fires. I have been very excited to take on the new role of Director UBC Wellbeing, Okanagan Campus. I am pleased to announce that Deb Oakley will be working with me starting August 28th as the part-time Wellbeing Administrative Assistant. We will both […]
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 […]