Each year on Veteran’s Day, The Arc of Opportunity hosts a Wellness Conference for employees to learn something new, get to know their coworkers, have some fun and relax. The day offers are variety of workshops including nutritional, financial, physical, and emotional health.
This year, the day began with a staff meeting followed by two 75-minute sessions of workshops, lunch and team building activities and closed with a third session of workshops.
The workshops and activities offered this year includes:
- Beginner’s Yoga
- Cooking Class
- Disc Golf 101
- Chair Massage
- Integrated Reiki
- Hula-Hoop Making
- Curves: How to Squeeze in Exercise Every Day
- Stress Management
- Tea Tasting
- Financial Planning: Voluntary Insurance
- Laughter Yoga
- Zumba
- Chakra Meditation
- Five Wishes
- It’s all about Fun ‘n Games
- Sugar Shakedown & Store Tour
- Tips for Walks & Easy Hikes
Lunch was a great social time for all to sit, catch up, trade lots of laughs and enjoy one of the four sandwich selections, vegetarian chili, salad and dessert. Then it was straight into an activity led by Mary Heafy starting with some “get to know your coworkers” exercises, and then it was time for the team building activity. Employees organized into teams of 5 and were given a bag of mostly food items (uncooked spaghetti, marshmallow’s, play dough etc.) and challenged to build the tallest structure in a limited amount of time. After measuring each team’s structures, the winning team was announced and participants were asked for their feedback as to how their group worked or didn’t work together and what they learned from the activity.
It was a great day with many laughs that was made possible by the Wellness Committee, local instructors, practitioners, and business people, many of whom spent their holiday off sharing their talents and knowledge with The Arc staff.