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WorkLife Wellbeing:

Health Promotion for Faculty and Staff

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Health Promotion and Engagement WorkLife Wellbeing for faculty and staff honor each employee as a whole person, encompassing both their professional and personal lives. An employee’s overall wellbeing is influenced by numerous aspects in both their work environment and life circumstances. To enhance employee wellbeing, we must consider a range of social determinants, including work-life balance, caregiver responsibilities, workplace environment, finances, as well as emotional, physical, and social health.

 

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WorkLife Wellbeing Educational Sessions

Our work and careers are central to our sense of identity, purpose, achievement, and belonging. By providing educational and community-building opportunities and sharing insights into workplace culture, we aim to help attract and retain values-driven employees while enhancing the wellbeing of all MSU employees.

The WorkLife Wellbeing sessions are free and available to all MSU community members, including faculty, academic staff, support staff, postdocs, and students.

Registration for all educational sessions is OPEN!
Register below for any of the FREE monthly educational sessions happening virtually and in hybrid formats to learn more about:

Join the FREE educational sessions of your choosing to take steps toward you and your team’s WorkLife Wellbeing:

Registration for all educational sessions is currently open. Register for classes below:

  • The Pillars of Creating Effective Caregiving Partnerships

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    Date: April 8, 2025
    Time: 1-2 p.m. (with optional consultations from 2-3 p.m.)
    Location: Virtual
    Speaker: KC Austern

    Description: As our population ages more and more people find themselves in caregiving roles, and balancing those responsibilities with work and life is a challenge. Building effective caregiver partnerships requires planning, resource knowledge, and self-care.

    • Objective 1: Understand the importance of having conversations with care partners to plan for future care needs
    • Objective 2: Learn how to find and access community and personal resources
    • Objective 3: Understand and acknowledge the importance of self-care

    photo of presenter KC AusternKC Austern holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Social Work, and a Certification in Aging from Michigan State University, with a focus on social work in health care. She participated in MSU’s Health Education, Advocacy, Leadership Scholars program and completed the Social Work in Healthcare Certificate.

    KC has worked at the Tri-County Office on Aging for over 6 years, first in the Project Choices Waiver program and currently as an Options Counselor, supporting the aging community in long term care planning and resource managment. She is passionate about helping community members and families find ways to adapt to changes in health and ability, as well as ways to create communities that support health and healthful aging for all.


  • Rest with Music

Music can heal, calm, and change our mood. It can regenerate our body, mind, and spirit. Health Promotion and Engagement invites you to take an hour out of your month to listen and Rest with Music. There will be live musical performances featuring a variety of musical styles and genres. These events are free, require no registration, and take place at Abrams Planetarium from 12:10 - 12:50 pm.
  • April 21: Folias Duo
  • May 19: Ellis & M.E
  • June 16: The Rusty Snails


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Contact Us and Your Fellow Spartans

Interested in learning more about our programming? Contact us at uhw.hpeaa@msu.edu

Want to stay up to date with health and wellbeing news, events, and best practices? Sign up for our Wellbeing at MSU newsletter!

Looking to connect with fellow faculty and staff with shared interests to facilitate information sharing? Join one of the listservs below.

Family

For MSU faculty and staff who have children and enjoy interactive sharing of resources with their MSU family.

For MSU employees that are looking to share resources with each other

International

For any MSU employee who is from or has spent time in another country

UHW (University Health & Wellbeing)

For information on information and programming from University Health and Wellbeing (UHW)

WNA (Women's Networking Association)

This group shares perspective and works on initiatives and recommendations surrounding women’s health and safety, MSU benefits, diversity and inclusion, support staff engagement, education, training, and more.

 

How to Join a Listserv

To join, send an email to listserv@list.msu.edu and include the following command line in the body of the message (not the Subject): SUBSCRIBE [NAME OF LIST].

Use the exact text for the list as it appears below:

SUBSCRIBE RESOURCES

SUBSCRIBE FAMILY

SUBSCRIBE UHW

SUBSCRIBE INTERNATIONAL

SUBSCRIBE WNA

For example, an email would be:

To:  listserv@list.msu.edu

Subject Line:   Subscribe Requests

Body of Email:   SUBSCRIBE RESOURCES

 

You will receive a few confirmation emails so make sure you follow the instructions in those confirmation emails to complete the subscription process!

 

How to Use the Listserv

First, you must be a member of the list to send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list.  After you subscribe, just send an email to [NAME OF LIST]@list.msu.edu. This is called “sending mail to the list,” because you send mail to a single address and LISTSERV makes copies for all the people who have subscribed. 

When sending to a list, use the exact name of the list as it appears below:

INTERNATIONAL@list.msu.edu

FAMILY@list.msu.edu

RESOURCES@list.msu.edu

UHW@list.msu.edu

WNA@list.msu.edu

For example, to send to the FAMILY list you would send an email to family@list.msu.edu

NO Discriminatory messages towards any family constitution, race, gender, etc.

NO Messages that list items for sale. Item giveaways are permitted, but classified sale ads are not.

Being on the list means that you will automatically receive any messages posted to the list. Those messages will appear in your inbox when you log into email. It will also mean that you can send a single message, using the list address, which will automatically go to ALL MEMBERS of the list. Remember that those messages go to everyone on the list. If you use “reply” or “answer”, your answer will not be posted to the entire list but sent to the original poster of the message. So, if you want to send a personal message to an individual, you send it directly to that person. Ending your message with your full name and your email address will also help if people wish to respond to you personally. Please be mindful that each listserv ONLY recognizes the email address you registered with. If you receive a message stating “you are not authorized to post to this listserv” please check that the email you are sending from is the email you registered with.

 

How to Unsubscribe

To unsubscribe at any time, send an email to listserv@list.msu.edu and include the following command line in the body of the message (not the Subject): UNSUBSCRIBE [NAME OF LIST]

Use the exact name of the list as it appears below:

UNSUBSCRIBE FAMILY

UNSUBSCRIBE INTERNATIONAL

UNSUBSCRIBE RESOURCES

UNSUBSCRIBE UHW

UNSUBSCRIBE WNA

For example, to unsubscribe from the FAMILY list you would send an email to listserv@list.msu.edu and include the following command line in the body of the message (not the Subject): UNSUBSCRIBE FAMILY