2024 Spring Worksite Wellness Conference: Pace Yourself
Friday, May 3 | 9 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Finding your stride and setting your own pace — at work and at home — are essential to your mental and emotional well-being. For education employees who work with students every day, it can be hard to prioritize your own needs, no matter how important it is to do so.
Join MESSA Health Promotion Consultant Rhonda Jones on Friday, May 3, for MESSA’s 2024 Spring Worksite Wellness Conference: Pace Yourself. You’ll learn strategies for simple self-care, how to find the right pace when exercising, the relationship between diet and brain health, and signs and risk factors for ovarian cancer that everyone should know.
Rhonda will give an overview of MESSA’s wellness benefits and resources, while offering guidance on how to start your own group. Her session will feature special guests from Macatawa Bay Middle School and the Armada Schools Wellness Team.
This virtual event will be held live on Zoom from 9 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Sessions include:
Life in the S.L.O.W. Lane
Lauren Kazee, founder of Living S.L.O.W.
As professionals in education, it is natural to focus on the needs of those around us, especially those of young people. It is not easy to attend to our own needs, which often get neglected or ignored. Join in the discussion of simple self-care strategies to reprioritize you. You will have an opportunity to identify and try practices that are a good fit for you. This session will be engaging, interactive and include a variety of practical strategies to prioritize your own well-being and self-care, even amidst chaos.
Finding your pace
Dr. David Weismantel, MESSA medical director
Dr. Weismantel is a practicing physician and an avid runner who brings a comprehensive perspective on pacing yourself when exercising. When beginning an exercise, it’s important to modify it to make it successful for you. In many cases this means starting with small movements or light weights and then increasing as you master the exercise. This discussion will empower you to start exercising, and increase your strength and endurance.
The brain sets the bar: Feed yours right
Dr. Ann, author, physician and founder of the Healthy Living School
Dr. Ann transforms science as it relates to diet and brain health into a talk that is simple, fun, delicious and ultrapractical. Whether your goals are to reset the stress button, optimize your intellectual power, boost your happiness, or unleash your body’s full potential for vitality, this talk is your indispensable ally for optimal health. You will walk away with take-action-today inspiration and the best guidance for optimizing the health of your brain and body. (Note: This session will not be recorded and will not be available after the conference.)
Ovarian cancer awareness resources for the workplace
Megan Neubauer, executive director of the Michigan Ovarian Cancer Association
Learn the signs, symptoms and risk factors of ovarian cancer through a short presentation from Michigan survivors, followed by a brief outline of resources, programs and information that are available for your workplace wellness program. This interactive session is focused on general information everyone should know about ovarian cancer.
This virtual event is free for MESSA members. MEA members in good standing can receive SCECH credit for attending.
