The School of Natural Resources earned an employee wellness award, part of UNL’s campuswide Wellness Lives Here initiative, at the fall 2016 ambassador forum last week.
“I am very excited to have helped earn this award for my department,” said Crystal Stiles, SNR Wellness Ambassador and applied climatologist with the High Plains Regional Climate Center. “Great job to the SNR wellness team.”
Stiles and teammates Mark Mesarch, web and data programmer, and Caroline Jezierski, former Nebraska Wind Energy and Wildlife Project Coordinator, created a wellness plan for SNR in 2015 that included four measureable goals:
• Increase the promotion of wellness in SNR;
• Encourage colleagues to provide healthy food options for SNR get-togethers;
• Promote walking breaks; and
• Provide space in Hardin Hall to encourage meditation or quiet time.
To help achieve those goals, they created the SNR Wellness Team website and listserv to publish and promote wellness information and activities. To sign up for the listserv, click here.
The team also mapped out walking paths inside Hardin Hall to help encourage walking breaks or walking meetings and made available maps of those and other East Campus walking routes at the the Maps and More store. And they made available the Collaboration Room (Hardin Hall 915) for those wanting to take a break or wishing to meditate during lunches or breaks.
“We set goals, and we did them all,” Stiles said. “We’ve gotten the wellness program off the ground, and now we want to keep the momentum going.”
The team is looking for another member to help plan and promote wellness in the building. Interested parties should contact Stiles at cstiles3@unl.edu.
Stiles and Mesarch also are planning a few new wellness events for SNR for the upcoming academic year.
“We want to form a community of wellness in SNR,” Stiles said. “If people are well, they are more productive, happier and healthier.”
For more on the SNR Wellness Initiative, click here.
—Shawna Richter-Ryerson, Natural Resources
More details at: http://snr.unl.edu/employeeinfo/wellness/index.asp