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2025 GOVSTATE WELLNESS WEEK SEPTEMBER 15th - 19th
“Take the ‘I’ out of Illness, add ‘W’ and ‘E’, and you
have Wellness”. Malcolm X
Wellness Week is an annual event celebrating health
promotion, wellness, and prevention across the Governors State University
community. It highlights the
collaborative professional and academic efforts by our students, faculty, alums,
and local community members to address the wellness of our community and
support our university’s vision to create an intellectually stimulating public
square by leading in excellence and innovation related to health promotion,
wellness, and prevention. Wellness Week
occurs annually during the 3rd week of September.
Wellness Week is open to all members of the Governors State
community, including students, staff, faculty, alumni, and local community
members.
The weeklong schedule of events is designed to:
Create
connected communities through professional development.
Identify
helpful resources to support community members’ wellness across 8 Dimensions: emotional,
spiritual, intellectual, physical, environmental, financial, occupational, and
social.
Provide
tools to support personal and community resilience and self-efficacy.
Help
reduce stress, enhance connectedness, and foster improved lifestyle practices.
Recognize
the collaborative work of our community members in creating health promotion,
wellness, and prevention programs and initiatives.
Support
collegiality, teamwork, and collaboration while focusing on helpful topics such
as mental health, chronic disease prevention, time management,
self-organization, seeking support, and committing to a healthy work-life
balance.
If you want to host a vendor booth at our
Expo or present during the week, please register using the link below. You will be contacted by the event organizer
to provide more details once your interest has been submitted.
Vendor/Presenter Sign-up Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BWK55H6
If you have any questions regarding
Wellness Week, please get in touch with the event organizer: Dr. Frank
Czuba, DrOT, OTR/L, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, at
fczuba@govst.edu.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions regarding Wellness Week 2024, please contact Dr. Frank Czuba, DrOT, OTR/L, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, at fczuba@govst.edu.