20 Minutes of Wellness
WESD offers and supports the use of 20 minutes per week of paid staff time for employees to use towards wellness activities during work hours. Your weekly 20 minutes may be used at one time or split between workdays. Please coordinate this time with your supervisor to ensure that it won't conflict with student contact time or scheduled meetings.
Ideas for how to use your 20 minutes:
- Complete Healthy Team, Healthy U lessons
- Use a breathing or mindfulness app (Try Headspace or Down Dog)
- Take a walk outside
- Attend a Wellness-sponsored activity
- Book the Wellness Corner to get a massage
- Check in with your physical and emotional well-being (Wellness corners are equipped with massage chairs, a blood pressure cuff, a scale, and books)
- Practice mindful eating and explore new nutrition practices
- Track your movement or activity
- Find new healthy recipes in a cookbook from the Wellness Library
- Complete your entries for a Walker Tracker Challenge
- Read the Wellness Newsletter
- Use the coloring materials at the Wellness Library
- Play a quick game with a friend (games at Wellness Library)
- Plan wellness activities for the evening or weekend
- Check out the current events on the Wellness webpage
- Encourage others to reach their wellness goals
- Complete a “Wellness Minute” or stretching activity
- Visiting the virtual Rejuvenate! space
- Walk with a colleague - schedule in your calendar so you and your colleague can meet up once a month for your wellness walk
- Practice grounding excercises
- Write a gratitude list or journal for a few minutes
- Do a "body scan" relaxation
- Engage in a quick positive affirmation practice
- Practice active listening for a moment of connection
Wellness minutes may not be used for:
- Coming in late to work
- Leaving work early (even for appointments)
- Extending lunches or breaks
- Leaving WESD’s campus
- Activities that aren’t Wellness-related
* Please choose activities that do not disrupt programs. Thank you!