Wellbeing

  • 2024 May 12

    Lilac Sunday

    10:00am to 3:00pm

    Experience the springtime bloom of our renowned lilac collection with Lilac Sunday, offering fun, free explorations for the entire family. The event features ongoing tours of the Arboretum’s lilacs and other plant collections, as well as guided meditations, art, family activities, and picnicking on this day only. Visitors may also enjoy a host of self-guided tours, including a lilac tour, via the Arboretum website and its Expeditions app.

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  • 2024 May 13

    Mindful Movement: Yoga for the Office

    Repeats every week every Monday until Mon May 20 2024 .
    9:00am to 10:00am

    Location: 

    Online

    As every office worker knows, sitting for long periods can result in stiffness and discomfort. The gentle stretches and postures taught in this program are designed to increase flexibility at the joints—thereby improving one’s range of motion – and also aid in relaxing the hips and lower portions of the body to increase one’s ability to sit with ease. Because this practice blends movement in the body with the breath, it is an ideal extension of mindfulness practice. No previous knowledge of yoga is necessary. This class does not require special clothing or equipment.

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  • 2024 May 15

    Raising Future Ready Kids: Resilience & Grit

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Kids face challenges ranging from peer pressure to criticism and that's not going to change anytime soon. Future ready kids will need both resilience—the ability to bounce back from hard things—and grit—the ability to stick with difficult tasks. Learn to Live's clinical team shares proven strategies to help you support your kids in bouncing back from life's challenges for now and the future.

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  • 2024 May 15

    Care Talks-Adult Care-Caregiver Burnout: Mental and Emotional Health Help

    1:00pm to 2:00pm


    May is National Mental Health Month and surveys show caregivers experience more burnout and stress than the general population. This session touches upon the challenges to mental and emotional health and how to find more happiness, joy and balance in life. Tips on how to understand emotional vibrations, how to use daydreaming for building resilience, learning to let go of grief and guilt and establish boundaries that negatively impact health and wellness, understanding situational vs clinical depression. The session also includes a tool known as the Social Convoy model to create a...

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  • 2024 May 16

    Caring Without Crumbling: Tools to Prevent Burnout

    11:00am to 12:00pm


    Are you feeling like you're constantly running on empty, juggling caregiving responsibilities while neglecting your own well-being? It can feel like it's impossible to balance it all. The Learn to Live clinical team will discuss strategies to help you prevent caregiver burnout by learning how to challenge and reframe those persistent, draining thoughts that keep you trapped in the burnout cycle, navigate the complex emotions that come with caregiving, use practical tools to assert your needs, set boundaries, and regain a sense of balance in your life.

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  • 2024 May 16

    Care Talks-Succeed at Work: Managing Strong Emotions

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Strong emotions are inevitable. This webinar goes beyond identifying emotions to help us manage and control ourselves when all of our buttons have been pushed. We need real strategies to enable us to say and do the right thing. We will share state-of-the-art techniques that will ensure you will keep your cool.

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  • 2024 May 17

    Mindful Movement: Yoga for the Office

    Repeats every week every Friday until Fri May 24 2024 .
    9:00am to 10:00am

    Location: 

    Online

    As every office worker knows, sitting for long periods can result in stiffness and discomfort. The gentle stretches and postures taught in this program are designed to increase flexibility at the joints—thereby improving one’s range of motion – and also aid in relaxing the hips and lower portions of the body to increase one’s ability to sit with ease. Because this practice blends movement in the body with the breath, it is an ideal extension of mindfulness practice. No previous knowledge of yoga is necessary. This class does not require special clothing or equipment.

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  • 2024 May 20

    Mindful Movement: Yoga for the Office

    9:00am to 10:00am

    Location: 

    Online

    As every office worker knows, sitting for long periods can result in stiffness and discomfort. The gentle stretches and postures taught in this program are designed to increase flexibility at the joints—thereby improving one’s range of motion – and also aid in relaxing the hips and lower portions of the body to increase one’s ability to sit with ease. Because this practice blends movement in the body with the breath, it is an ideal extension of mindfulness practice. No previous knowledge of yoga is necessary. This class does not require special clothing or equipment.

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  • 2024 May 20

    Caring for Yourself, and Caring for Others, Through Mindfulness

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Online

    In times of turmoil and anxiety—when so many people seem in need of our help—the contemplative practices of mindfulness can seem counter-intuitive. “Is sitting here quietly really helping anyone?” But like other sorts of personal protective equipment, the practices of mindfulness prepare our hearts and minds to effectively and sustainably support those around us. We will investigate how mindfulness practices that make the mind calm, but also bright, establish a foundation for enacting immediate, incisive change: in our family units, in our professional units, and within culture as a...

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  • 2024 May 20

    Caring for Yourself, and Caring for Others, Through Mindfulness

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    In times of turmoil and anxiety—when so many people seem in need of our help—the contemplative practices of mindfulness can seem counter-intuitive. “Is sitting here quietly really helping anyone?” But like other sorts of personal protective equipment, the practices of mindfulness prepare our hearts and minds to effectively and sustainably support those around us. We will investigate how mindfulness practices that make the mind calm, but also bright, establish a foundation for enacting immediate, incisive change: in our family units, in our professional units, and within culture as a...

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