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We provide free stuff, low-cost materials and "skill shops" for teams to continue (or start) their wellness journey.
Most materials are free at the bottom of these web pages, and now TWO WELLNESS DECKS ARE $99.
Our online trainings focus on original resources: the Deck, Prescription, and Scorecard.
We facilitate inclusive, small-group activities to build your team culture, health, and camaraderie.
Trainings start at $650, and Coaching/video packages begin at $1,000. These spots are limited, especially in-person trainings.
Our standard curriculum is always customized, based on outcomes for your specific team.
We designed a Train-the-Trainer curriculum on Team-Care, with the goal of deepening your root system to create stronger resilience.
This multi-part curriculum has been tested at nonprofit organizations (like Nonprofits LEAD, in OH) and schools (like Mundo Verde PCS, in DC). These sessions are best with cross-functional teams, up to ~25 people (comes with multiple sets of our printed materials: Discussion tools, Postcards, and the Deck).
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Personal Stress Prescription, Stressor Scorecard, Brain Boost BINGO, & original Spanish wellness idioms. Scroll to the bottom of each page of this site to download your FREE materials.
These 60-min online trainings are led by Nonprofit Wellness senior trainers Ty &/or Susan. Included: a 52-card Wellness Deck.
Topics include:
We support leaders, HR folks, and teams. Talking confidentially to Ty or Susan about your team's culture shifting will yield dozens of new ideas for practices, perspectives and team-building tools for wellness. We also create custom wellness videos for teams.
Minimum $1,000/package of coaching or video resources.
We are constantly adding to our list of expert online trainers, with skills like: Juggling, Qi Gong, Salsa Dance, Mindfulness and more. See below for descriptions. Prices vary. ($100 surcharge for recording.)
A series of online sessions (3-4) for schools or nonprofits who want to train internal staff to create or support a wellness program.
Please contact us for scholarship options and in-person training pricing.
($0.00 shipping)
This price includes TWO DECKS, shipping, a cardboard easel, and cards (which measure 5 x 4 inches; yes, mailable with a postcard stamp).
The deck is organized in four themes: Be Like a Tree, Breathing, Team-care quotes, and Immune Boosters. Sneak peek? See Resources.
If you'd prefer to have your organization/school/company invoiced for the deck, or to request multiple decks or a training, please fill out this form .
Leaders at nonprofits and schools are struggling with (even more) turnover and burnout.
Nonprofit Wellness combines energy, experience, science, art, and a sense of humor through Team-Care activities that are equal parts fun, engaging, and instructive. (We're based in DC, and do a few in-person engagements.)
From an hour at a retreat to a multi-week series culminating in a lasting Wellness Committee, our programs are custom-made to meet your big-hearted and exhausted employees where they are, build camaraderie through vulnerability, and establish a space and priority for discussing and supporting well-being at work.
Co-founders Dr. Ty Powell (EdD) & Professor Susan Comfort (American University)
TAKE A DEEP BREATH
According to a McKinsey analysis of a Johns Hopkins study, “Workplace stressors such as long hours, economic insecurity, work–family conflict, and high job demands coupled with low job control are as harmful to health as secondhand smoke.”
Only 30 percent of employees say they feel comfortable talking to their manager about their mental health. Yet nearly ⅔ of employees in that same study report mental health to be an issue of serious concern.
Mental health is "outsourced" and consulting firms like Deloitte rush to prove that investment in mental health has a 500% return on investment (demonstrated by reduced sick time and employee turnover, as well as increased productivity).
But are staff using these benefits? According to McKinsey, 96 percent of companies globally provided additional mental-health resources to employees, but only one in six employees reported feeling supported. Even if you have an EAP program and decent coverage for therapy in your healthcare, most of your employees probably aren’t taking proper advantage of it.
And anyway, that's not the "everyday" (free!) mental health benefit of stronger connections at work.
Burnout is a huge factor in people leaving nonprofit and teaching jobs. In fact, 43% of teachers who left before scheduled retirement did so due to stress — nearly double the number who left due to pay.
Yet, as Gallup proves again and again, having a best friend at work is a HUGE factor in job success, job satisfaction, and retention. This is the best reason to invest in friendships at work.
A pre-pandemic study showed that nearly one in five nonprofit employees leaves every year, yet only 13% of nonprofit leaders recognize it as a top challenge.
This matches another pre-pandemic study showing nearly ⅓ of nonprofit employees, and over 50% of employees under 30, planning to leave within two years.
Wellness at work is a growing industry -- after all, we spend 1/3 of our lives at work and since we are not physically or mentally "well" we have to address some of these skills and solutions "at the office." Especially since many of our stressors come from the work/team itself.
Nearly every client asks us to come back and do more. Hopefully Nonprofit Wellness can support your staff in some way.
ABOUT OUR SKILL-SHOPS
Our skill-shops are single sessions for teams to practice wellness activities together.
Because it's fun for people to learn a new skill or have a new experience (together).
Want to schedule a session or series for your team? office (at) nonprofitwellness (dot)org
Leslie Gray Streeter, columnist for the Baltimore Banner and author of Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title, presents this "Grief with Grace" skill-shop that is mostly safe for work.
Leslie shares practical steps, based on experience and science and the pandemic, to navigate the grieving process with positivity and YEP! a sense of humor. Participants will come away with a plan of action that includes talking about and acknowledging grief, a topic most avoid but everyone experiences.
Think you can’t juggle? We beg to differ. Using simple plastic bags or maybe scarves, we’ll teach you juggling basics in less than an hour.
Here's a 5-min taster of Kevin's session with kids. These movements sharpen the reflexes, increase focus, and improve coordination.
Learn from expert circus yogi Kevin O'Keefe of Circus Minimus. Circus arts are inherently family-friendly, so do this session from home office(s) and invite the kids.
Mindfulness is "nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment."
Harder than it sounds, and worthy of a lifetime (or at least a few minutes a day) of practice.
This session is designed as an introductory experience and usually led by board member (and TM practitioner) Daniel Medina (in English or Spanish).
We go over brain science of mindfulness and reflect on the health benefits as well as barriers.
Most of this session is spent practicing several methods of mindfulness (for example, mantra) or 5-4-3-2-1 (sensory awareness that breaks an anxiety spiral).
Qi Gong is a gentle, ancient, Chinese healing practice that cultivates our vital life energy (qi, or chi) and fosters balance in our bodies and minds.
In this beginner practice, Joann and Pat of QiCircles teach a mindful flow of simple and profoundly effective movements.
This session is accessible to all ages (Joann is an octogenarian!) and physical ability levels.
When a team does anything new together, the experience builds camaraderie as well as skill.
Our Mindful Art sessions focus on paper "upcycling" (making new stuff from otherwise discarded magazines, calendars, maps, etc) to make cards, envelopes, and other human connection tools.
This session is an interactive, online crafting session.
These activities engage the right hemisphere of our brain, and help us stay present.
Most importantly: cards, letters, and notes bring humans closer (at least emotionally).
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