Employee Lifestyle Education
Rest and Renewal Lifestyle Series
Lifestyle is a foundation of health — the blockbuster drug that doesn’t cost a penny.
The Rest and Renewal Lifestyle series brings a physician-created, group visit model for caring for the whole person to the worksite. The material has been adapted to fit your worksite, while still bringing participants the value of the group visit model. Participants build individual capacity - learning about themselves - while being given the opportunity to share experiences among a community of people. The group visit and community approach can result in more education, time for dialogue, build skills and develop mind-body practices.
Our series is based on mindfulness. Each course includes learning and practicing mind-body skills for well-being.
- Small group setting (maximum 20 participants)
- Led by a Registered Nurse
- Courses each last an hour and can be taken as a series or individually based on what fits your employees best
- Topics will be explored in a lecture style, as well as hands on activities
- Strategies will be offered for participants to transform their health
Course options
- Calming Stress through Resilience
Explore the physiology of responding to stress, how it impacts your body and learn ways you can calm your mind with meditation, breathing relaxation, and restoration.
- Restoring Optimal Sleep
Explore the physiology of and stages of sleep, understand your sleep patterns, and identify steps to take for improved sleep.
- Honoring the Body with Nutrition
Explore mindfulness in nutrition, including easy habits to incorporate into your life for healthy eating. This session isn't a debate on fad diets or giving up treats!
- Mindful Movement
Explore ways to incorporate movement throughout the day, diving into the many health benefits above and beyond weight loss.
What to expect:
All events are led by a Registered Nurse. Depending on your population, we also have the option to staff Patient Service Coordinators to help with the forms and clinic flow.
You will work with a dedicated Account Coordinator throughout the process. We take all the stress out of planning!
You have the option to use online appointment scheduling to improve the efficiency of your event (at no additional cost).
We provide you with educational resources during the series and additional resources upon completion of a course to share with staff.
All you need to provide is a space that is comfortable for 20-25 participants. Setup will need to include tables, chairs and a projector and screen for our RN presenter.
This Integrative Health series was developed by board-certified family medicine physician Dr. Kara Parker, who is trained in Integrative and Functional Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare. Integrative Health is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle. Dr. Parker has found the holistic and functional medicine approach to patient care helpful in treating most patient conditions, especially those not easily treated by drugs and/or surgery. She created a program of integrative health group visits, which has now been adopted to fit the workplace environment.
To read more about Dr. Parker and this series, click here.
Testimonials
“I liked that it was interactive and provided multiple strategies for stress reduction.”
-Participant of Calming Stress
Check out our other Worksite Wellness services: FLU AND OTHER IMMUNIZATIONS HEALTH SCREENINGS HEALTH FAIRS