affordable wellness services

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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).

• Goal of Training: Understand neuroscience and health impacts of (unprecedented) stress.  

• What You'll Learn: How stress affects the body and mind. Participants will reflect on their "roots" of self-care. 

• Action: Participants will review science-backed self-care solutions and self-prescribe their own.

• Goal of Training: Cultivate a healthy forest -- that is, a culture of team-care that supports everyone at work.

• What You'll Learn: How to assess your team's wellness needs and plan a post-pandemic culture of retention. Participants and trainers will generate ideas on activities, budgeting, and planning.

• Action: Idea-sharing and starting to customize a wellness plan. 

• Goal of Training: Learn how to bolster the human immune system--cheaply!

• What You'll Learn: 12 science-backed  solutions for naturally boosting your resistance to harmful virus and bacteria. 

• Action: Discuss practices for better immunity, so that individuals and teams make healthier choices .

• Goal of Training: Convince you that breathing is the most effective tool for wellness. Go ahead -- right now -- 

TAKE A DEEP BREATH

• What You'll Learn: Breathing is the language of the nervous system,  and it's a tool for mindful attention. 

• Action: This training uses 13 breathing cards to learn and practice the benefits of mindfulness.

• Goal of Training: Understand your sources of (non-work) stress and learn ways to reframe these challenges to build personal resilience. 

• What You'll Learn:  Tools to manage chronic stress, especially in nonprofits and schools. Participants will complete a "Stressor & Resilience Scorecard," our  tool which measures the impact of  identity and personal circumstances.

• Action: practice re-framing, a key strategy for personal resilience.

• Goal of Training: Encourage 5-minute brain boosts throughout the day.  

• What You'll Learn: Three recommendations: challenge your neural networks, choose a mindfulness practice (including music), and recall playful memories from childhood.

• Action: This session comes with Brain Boost BINGO cards for all participants (in English, Spanish, or both).

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.