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Human Resource Development

Mental Wellbeing

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Stress Management
Positive Emotion & Happiness
Mental Health

Ideas for Stress Management

  • Promote the WellTrack Boost Mental Health Management App
    Encourage coworkers to download the WellTrack Boost app that helps with stress, anxiety, and depression. BYU employees can create an account for free using your netid@byu.edu email address.
  • Schedule a Stress Management Presentation
    Invite a wellness coordinator to give a short presentation in your department such as: Stress Management , Warding off the Winter Blues, or Mindful Meditation 
  • Use Handouts from the BYU CAPS Website 
    Share a handout from a variety of topics available on BYU’s Counseling and Psychological Services.  
  • Check out Chair Massage Pads 
    Check out the chair massage pads for your team during a week when work is stressful time.  
  • Host a Daily Stretch Break 
    Host a 5–10-minute stretch or meditation break where everyone can take a moment to reconnect, relax, and rejuvenate mid-day. 
  • Work to Resolve Work Related Stress
    You could use this managing stress worksheet as a group to identify effective ways to minimize or alleviate work related stress.
  • Host a Stress Management Challenge 
    There are a variety of challenges on in the toolbox aimed at managing stress, such as: Sleep, simplicity, step away from stress bingo, take 10, mindfulness, and stretching. 
  • Lead a Group Journaling Activity 
    Host a guided journaling experience. You could provide 3-4 different journaling prompts. Toward the end of the time, encourage everyone to take a moment to reread what they've written, and add closing thoughts, feelings or summaries. Some could share what they wrote if they want. 

Ways to Promote Positive Emotion

  • Find Opportunities to Celebrate 
    Find simple ways to celebrate work highlights such as projects completed, work well-done, the end of a semester, goals achieved, etc.
  • Create an Element to Your Culture that is Unique and Fun 
    Find something that ties you together and makes your department special. Is it the quality customer service you provide, or do you really care about your students? Do you have a fun weekly, monthly, or annual tradition everyone looks forward to participating in? These identities and traditions go a long way in creating a culture where people feel connected as a group.
  • Host a Gratitude Challenge, Gratitude Wall, or Gratitude Moment
    Have people write down things they're grateful for on gratitude wall or have a few moments at the start of a meeting for people to share what they are grateful for. Additionally there is a gratitude challenge in the toolbox that you could use.   
  • Do Something Unusual, Whimsical, and Memorable Together 
    Host a paper airplane competition, have a game hour during lunch, hold a green smoothie day, go bowling, celebrate groundhog day, do an activity from the HRD/Wellness Checkout Library. These one-off activities will help break up week, create connections, and bring rejuvenation and a fresh perspective to the workplace.
  • Create a Department Music Playlist 
    Create and share an appropriate playlist for your department to enjoy and let people add their favorite songs to it. 

    Ideas for Addressing Mental Health

    • Hold a Focus Group 
      Hold a focus group to discuss mental health and how to address it in your department. 
    • Share Information Regarding BYU's Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
      Remind coworkers that the Employee Assistance Program is available to DMBA holders and members of their household to offer emotional support. 
    • Share Mental Health Information 
      The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints website has a lot of information regarding Mental Health that you can draw from. 

    Resources

    Physical Wellbeing
    Mental Wellbeing
    Department Culture
    Department Wellness Challenges
    Presentations
    Check-Out Library