Lunchtime workshops explore work-life balance
The Employee Assistance Program is a confidential service provided to employees who are eligible for benefits at the university and immediate family.
Offered by Sheppell-fgi, the benefits include confidential counselling and referral, the Drug and Alcohol Recovery Program (DARP), and lunch-time workshops.
The lunchtime workshops are an extensive series of one-hour awareness and information sessions on a variety of health and lifestyle topics.
These workshops are available to all Concordians and begin next week with Living Well with Stress on September 28 in the Hall Building. It will help attendees with identifying personal stressors and symptoms, as well as creating strategies to increase resiliency.
On October 5, the session is called Top Ten Ways to a Healthier You, explaining which habits have the most powerful impact on one’s lifestyle and how to effectively change behaviour to reap the benefits of healthier living. The workshop can lead to better overall physical health, boosting one’s mood, energy, and productivity, while reducing stress and anxiety.
On October 7, Owen Moran will give an information session on “I Quit”, Concordia’s smoking cessation program.
Those interested in the workshops are asked to register in advance, either on the website or by calling ext. 3667, to bring a lunch, and to arrive promptly so the session can begin right at noon.
Internal EAP coordinator Nina Peritz has noted, in the 14 years she has been at Concordia, a steady increase in participation by both staff and faculty from all areas of the university. “I learn something new each time I attend an EAP lunch seminar. The facilitators from Sheppell-fgi really know how to motivate participants, build skills and address the many facets of well-being.”
Those interested in counselling should know it need not relate to one’s employment at the university, but can involve relationship or family issues, personal and emotional difficulties, multicultural issues, violence, bereavement, sexual harassment. Services are offered in both French and English and are entirely confidential. Short-term services are free of charge, and a counsellor will help employees find solutions for long-term issues.
For counselling and referral, call 1-800-387-4765 for service in English, and 1-800-361-5676 for service in French.
For any further information, contact the Internal EAP Coordinator at eap@alcor.concordia.ca, call 514-848-2424, ext. 3667, or visit the Concordia Employee Assistance Program website.