Wellness Ideas – Support for Healthful Changes.

Group support and encouragement may be very advantageous in assisting workers make healthful changes. Create situations, peer groups, or information avenues where the expertise and experiences of peers may be shared with others. Some ideas for providing on-site support for healthful changes include –

• Staff Members may be asked to voluntarily submit suggestions, advice, and strategies related to particular healthful practices they have successfully implemented in their lives.

For  instance, ex-smokers may be asked to submit suggestions about what worked for them when they quit; then those ideas may be shared in newsletters, flyers, classes, etc.

• Topics like weight control, stress management, managing change, increasing exercise, etc. lend themselves to this development of collective wisdom sharing.

• Behavior change support groups, created based on worker interest in making healthful change, can meet on a regular basis to share ideas, resources, support, etc. Wellness programs can offer some help and facilitation in getting a group started.

The group then its self takes charge of keeping the group going. Periodically the wellness program can offer to bring in a speaker or presenter on a topic relevant to the group.

Make sure to help the group establish ground rules that everyone agrees to before the group is left on its own.