UW-Madison 2nd Annual Wellness Symposium Schedule of Events Pre-Symposium BONUS Workshop (optional) 7:30 – 8:15 a.m. – Sunrise Centering: Gentle Yoga and Meditation with Yesplus Registration 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Symposium 8:30 – 9:45 Welcome and Morning Keynote Inclusive Wellness with Gabe Javier, Interim Director of the Multicultural Student Center Varsity Hall 10 – 10:50 a.m. 1. Color My Life: Tools for Managing Mood and Stress (Northwoods) 2. Mindfulness in Building Inclusive Community (Industry) 3. The Wisconsin Union: A Place Where All Can Play (Agriculture) 11 – 11:50 a.m. 1. Work Strong: Health and Performance Benefits of Workplace Strength Training (Agriculture) 2. Mindfulness: An Essential Compass in Wellness-Land (Northwoods) 3. 5 Minutes4Myself: Finding Work/Academic/Life Balance (Industry) 12:00 – 1:00 Luncheon Program 1:10 – 2:00 p.m. 1. Who Am I?: Cultural Identities and Authenticity to Promote A Healthier You (Northwoods) 2. Creating a Desk Garden (Industry) 3. Garden to Table: Simple Ways to Maintain a Healthy Diet (Agriculture) 4. Work. Live. Blend. Repeat.: Defining What Work-Life Balance Means to You (Fifth Quarter)

8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Morning Welcome and Keynote Inclusive Wellness Mainstream narratives about wellness too often focus solely on diet and exercise. If you are stressed does it mean you are failing at wellness? What is work-life balance, anyways? The concept and practice of wellness should be accessible, available, and achievable to all people. We all have different strategies to move towards our personal concept of wellness. The way we frame wellness has a huge impact on who ends up participating and who feels included. Our strategies are informed by our interests and passions, but also guided by our comfort and safety in particular environments and often filtered through our social identities. Inclusive wellness balances the need to be active in our pursuit of personal wellness alongside relief from things that detract from wellness in our lives. From body-positive and affirming yoga, to mindfulness exercises for people with varying abilities, to the role of microaggressions in diminishing resilience, inclusive wellness practices acknowledge that wellness should intersect with universal design and cultural competency. During this presentation, we will share in different strategies that promote resilience and also examine the ways we frame wellness towards ensuring that strategies are culturally competent and inclusive. Gabriel (Gabe) C. Javier is originally from St. Louis, MO and is the son of immigrants from the Philippines. Gabe attended Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO, where he studied English, Communication and Non-Profit Management. Gabe attended the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor for his Master’s in Higher Education and served as the Senior Assistant Director of the University of Michigan Spectrum Center, the nation’s first student services office established to serve lesbian and gay students, before coming to UW-Madison in 2011. Currently, Gabe serves as the Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the LGBT Campus Center and Interim Director of the Multicultural Student Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While at Wisconsin, Gabe has been a part of implementing a University-wide system by which people can indicate a preferred name that may be different than a birth or legal name. He also participates as a member of the University’s hate and bias response team. Gabe’s wellness plan often includes cartoons, superhero movies, cooking shows and long walks with his terrier mix, Dino.

7:30 – 8:15 a.m. BONUS Workshop - Sunrise Centering: Gentle Yoga and Meditation Room: Fifth Quarter Yesplus invites you to free your mind through powerful breathing, yoga, and meditation practices as part of a positive community. We teach people to thrive in life and lead with clarity of mind, resilience, purpose, and belonging. We will start with gentle movements to loosen tension from the body, then learn a simple breathing technique that can be incorporated into your daily life for focus and stress relief, and end with a meditation.

10:00 – 10:50 a.m. Breakout Session Descriptions and Presenters Color My Life: Tools for Managing Mood and Stress Room Location: Northwoods What is the power of color? Scientists measure it; marketers exploit it; lyricists wax poetic about it; artists create with it. Allen Klein wrote, “Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world.” In this experiential workshop, you will explore how color affects you and learn to use color to boost energy, sharpen focus, or relax your mind and body. Learn why coloring books for adults are so popular. Not artistic? Bring your inner-child to coloring class and you can leave your worries at the door. Supplies provided. Lynn Tarnoff (MA) is the Outreach Program Manager and director of the visual arts and living well programs. With degrees in education and health care administration, Lynn shares her passion for living creatively for personal expression, problem solving, life stage transitions, and stress management. As an award-winning artist, art instructor, gallery cofounder, and business entrepreneur, Lynn has worked in education, public health, toy and game invention, and community art development in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Mindfulness in Building Inclusive Community Room Location: Industry Outline: To understand mindfulness in positive psychology; To identify how unconscious bias impact on our life and community; To reduce unconscious bias by mindfulness; To enable inclusion through mindfulness; To create mindfulness in your own life Mindfulness has been theoretically and empirically associated with psychological well-being. In order to build a more inclusive, diverse, and respectful community, each of us needs to do our work. Recent studies also indicated that mindfulness strategies can reduce unconscious bias/implicit biases, which are unconscious attitudes or associations that influence our understanding, behaviors, and decisions. Mindfulness, according to them, focuses the individual on the present and encourages practitioners to view thoughts and feelings nonjudgmentally as mental events, rather than as part of the self. This session will include active engagement and group discussion about how mindfulness practices can be applied to recognizing biased responses, to interrupt our biases or blind spots, to build up an inclusive community, and to cultivate the insight of reverence and happiness in your own life. Nai-Fen Su is an Engagement, Inclusion, and Diversity (EID) Coordinator to foster and create an EID work and study environment at UW-Madison. She provides EID consultation and training to campus-wide units, including EID assessment, EID strategic planning, EID program implementation/evaluation, as well as support UW-Madison EID efforts. Nai-Fen brings extensive experience both in industry and higher education to the position, including employee relations, international HR, career/rehabilitation counseling, and institutional assessment and research at Penn State University, UW-Madison, BenQ, and Qisda Corporation. Nai-Fen earned her PhD from Penn State University in Workforce Education and Development.

The Wisconsin Union: A Place Where All Can Play Room Location: Agriculture In this session, participants will explore the idea and true understanding of what it means to play, why we have made it our campaign at the Wisconsin Union, and how the community can engage in PLAY at the Wisconsin Union. We'll also play a bit ourselves.

Deshawn Mckinney - Wisconsin Union President Stephanie Webendorfer - Wisconsin Union Marketing Specialist Jacob Hahn - Wisconsin Union Director of Outdoor Recreation Joe Webb - Wisconsin Union Assistant Director of Outdoor Recreation

11:00 – 11:50 a.m. Breakout Session Descriptions and Presenters Work Strong: Health and Performance Benefits of Workplace Strength Training Room Location: Agriculture Participants will learn about the most recent research and practical information from the American College of Sports Medicine on strength –training. We will also go through a strength training activity session using resistance bands. Lori Devine M.S. is the Assistant Director of Fitness/Wellness for the Division of Recreational Sports. For over 30 years, she has been recognized as a leader in the Fitness industry. She currently oversees the personal training and group fitness programming for the division. She is an educational provider for the American Council on Exercise, preparing individuals for careers in fitness and health.

Mindfulness: An Essential Compass in Wellness-Land Room Location: Northwoods This will be a participation-based discussion using mindful awareness to examine stress reactions and resiliency tools from a place of non-judgmental curiosity. The discussion will begin with defining mindfulness and exploring the powerful role of vulnerability when using mindfulness to increase self-awareness. Participants will be led in two interactive exercises: the first inviting us to openly and honestly explore our triggers and reactions to stress, and the second inviting us to realistically explore what actually works in bringing us back to state of wellness and resiliency. This discussion’s take home message: We all react to stress, and we all need resiliency strategies that work specifically for us. This discussion’s objectives: - Help us to be mindfully aware of what it looks and feels like when our wellness starts to derail - Help us to be mindfully aware of what really, truly gets our wellness and resilience re-railed - Help us be more mindfully aware of our derails and re-rails without judging ourselves - Help us give ourselves permission and space to react to stress and need resiliency tools Julia Yates, LCSW psychotherapist, is an experienced psychotherapist and teaching faculty with UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH). She has specialized training in motivational interviewing and structural family therapy. Julia coordinates the DFMCH’s behavioral science curriculum and has a continuity practice at the UW Health Verona Clinic. She is passionate about resident education, whole person health approaches, and patient centered care. Julia served as chair of the DFMCH’s wellness and resiliency task force and will now serve as director of DMFCH’s newly appointed wellness and resiliency board. Julia’s other interests include working with adolescent populations, empowerment approaches in psychotherapy, mindfulness practice and meditation, and incorporating acceptance and commitment therapy into primary care teaching and practice.

5 Minutes4Myself: Finding Work/Academic/Life Balance Room Location: Industry Participants in this experiential session will complete a series of experiences to reflect on their balance of daily life activities that are productive, pleasurable and restorative. The session will provide opportunities for reflection, strategies and hands on activities to foster better balance. Activities will include a TED talk on lessons for promoting work-life balance, a visioning exercise of their "ideal day", a mini-lecture on key concepts of the 5minutes4myself wellness program (including habit building) and several mindfulness exercises that may be incorporated into everyday activities. Elizabeth Larson Ph.D., OTR, Associate Professor Occupational Therapy Program Dr. Larson is an occupational therapist and associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology. Her current work focuses on examining the wellness of college students and caregivers of children with autism. The 5Minutes4Myself program was developed with caregivers

of children with autism and is currently being assessed to examine its impact on health. She also teaches a wellness course designed for freshmen, but open to all students, called Living Well: Lifestyle Balance and Wellness Promotion for College students. This course goes beyond diet and exercise to consider other elements of well-being such as financial, social, community, academic well-being and other elements.

1:10 – 2:00 p.m. Breakout Session Descriptions and Presenters Who Am I?: Cultural Identities and Authenticity to Promote A Healthier You Room Location: Northwoods Creating a healthy campus community means being culturally sensitive and aware members of the community. Cultural sensitivity begins with an awareness and understanding of your own complex identities, being authentic within those parts of yourself, and having an open mind and heart to the experiences of other identities. In this session, participants will participate in an experiential self-reflective activity which helps to identify the most important identities of themselves and how those identities have impacted their experiences and colored their worldview. We will share and have open dialogue that encourages each other to see the world through our community members’ eyes and highlights how authenticity helps us to be socially healthy and well people. We will also examine the health effects, particularly psychologically, of when identities are minimized or attacked versus celebrated and accepted. LeAnna Rice is a professional mental health counselor in Mental Health Services and a Prevention Specialist in Mental Health Promotion.

Creating a Desk Garden Room Location: Industry Participants will experience the positive effects of gardening by creating a small garden for their desk. Aside from benefits of caring for a garden, participants will have a take away from the session to beautify their space. The Allen Centennial Garden is committed to connecting people to plants and this session helps to further that connection. Elin Meliska is the Director of Programs and Community Engagement at the Allen Centennial Garden. She saw the potential to harness passion in her students for learning about the natural world through field trips and hands-on experiences while teaching in Chicago Public Schools. This inspired Elin to complete her Master of Arts in Teaching in Museum Education at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Elin has extensive experience creating and facilitating programming at the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Museum, the International Spy Museum, and most recently the Madison Children’s Museum. A native Chicagoan, Elin is excited to return to the Midwest and build the education and outreach programs at the Allen Centennial Garden.

Garden to Table: Simple Ways to Maintain a Healthy Diet Room Location: Agriculture This session teaches participants how to conveniently buy fresh vegetables through the Market Basket program on campus. Then, participants will be shown techniques for preparing, cooking, and storing the produce and how to incorporate it into a simple, easy meals. Recipes and nutritional information will be provided for a variety of produce, and participants will even get the chance to present a dish using the contents of one of the market baskets. Meg DiPoto is a student here at UW-Madison and is an intern at Slow Food UW this semester within the Market Basket program. For the internship, she sells and transports market baskets in South Madison and on campus. The market baskets are baskets full of fresh produce, giving community members easy access to healthy and reasonably priced food choices. She is very excited to spread the word about the Market Basket program and the other programs Slow Food UW has to offer.

Work. Live. Blend. Repeat.: Defining What Work-Life Balance Means to You Room Location: Fifth Quarter Participants can expect to gain the following: Definition of work/life balance (blend); Tools to advocate for your wellness at work; Discussion of matching your work with your personal values Coming from the perspective of the College of Letters & Science Career Initiative and Career Services, this session will provide attendees with the opportunity to discuss and practice ways to prioritize wellness with work and class. Our office works closely with employers and students, while balancing our own personal wellness as employees at the UW, and we hope to offer valuable insights and takeaways. Alex Peirce recently joined the L&S Career Initiative and Career Services team as the Director of Employer Development, a role that allows her to work closely and strategically with companies and organizations interested in hiring L&S students. Prior to moving to L&S, Alex worked for over three years as the Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications at Rec Sports on campus. In her spare time, Alex serves on the UWell council, on the Madison Festivals Board, and as a local swim coach. She lives well by training for triathlons, eating grilled cheese sandwiches, laughing with family and friends, traveling to new places, and listening to the Hamilton soundtrack on repeat. Shaylea Stensven has worked in higher education for over ten years consulting students on their career and leadership journeys. In her current role in Letters and Science Career Initiative and Career Services, she coordinates Experiential Education opportunities for students to apply their learning, have more confidence in their career choices, and skills to land their dream jobs. In addition, Shaylea earned a Masters in Counseling and understands the significance of how mental health and identity are intertwined into one's work identity. She lives well by prioritizing her personal values of enjoying nature, meditating, and spending quality time with her friends, family including her Japanese Chin, Caboose!