Take time to focus on self-care! Healthy Moments is a three-week challenge that encourages you to incorporate short, meaningful breaks into your daily routine. The goal is for participants to focus on self-care and boost well-being. Themes include unplugging to refresh, movement breaks, and strengthening connections.
During the 3-week challenge, you'll receive weekly emails with activities and resources. Each week will focus on a different theme, and you'll be able to choose from a list of activities to complete. With the provided tracker, you'll track your healthy moments throughout each week.
Regular self-care breaks are essential at work as they help manage stress and prevent burnout, boost productivity by maintaining focus, and enhance overall well-being. Our Healthy IU well-being and work+life survey data showed that this is a high need focus area, and we want to create a culture of self-care at work where we all collectively practice these healthy moments.
Register online any time before March 21. The challenge will begin 24 hours after you register. Note: avoid signing up on a Friday, as your emails will be sent on the weekends.
During the 3-week challenge, you'll receive weekly emails with activities and resources. Each week will focus on a different theme, and you'll be able to choose from a list of activities to complete. With the provided tracker, you'll track your healthy moments throughout each week.
Please note that some of the suggested challenge activities will not work for every employee or position. When considering which activities to engage in, be mindful of your specific role to ensure business operations are not significantly interrupted. If you have any questions about how certain activities fit within your department or unit guidelines, please discuss with your supervisor and/or unit HR.
The incentive for this challenge is a fanny pack (available on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last). To receive the incentive, participants must:
Be an IU employee or employee's spouse on an IU medical plan
Participate in all 3 weeks of the challenge
Complete the online challenge evaluation survey at the end
Join the Microsoft Teams group with other IU employees participating in Healthy IU Challenges. The group will evolve with each semester's challenge theme, offering a space to share resources, tips, support, and camaraderie.
Double check your spam/junk folders. Challenge emails are sent via Qualtrics. Qualtrics admins sometimes come across the situation of Qualtrics users not receiving emails. Their advice is to reach out to UITS support, who will work with you to make sure there is nothing in your email settings filtering out Qualtrics items. Participants who do not receive the challenge emails have a couple options:
Short-term fix: Let Healthy IU know at healthyu@iu.edu. We will work with you to send you the challenge content in another way.
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Long-term solution: Contact UITS or UA Technology Support to help adjust your email settings.
