Wellness Day - February, 1, 2023

Join the Center for Well-Being Peer Well-Being Ambassadors and Gompei as they raise awareness for You Are Enough! on the upcoming Wellness & Community Day. Shake hands with Gompei and grab your Wellness & Community Day passport to get free food on Wellness Day. Learn about the upcoming activities including our signature event from guest speaker Lisa Maddox on Multicultural Wellness. Wellness Day passports are also available at the Center for Well-Being Front Desk (Daniels Hall 102/Morgan Wedge) from 8:30AM-6:00PM starting on January 23rd - 31st and on February 1st from 8:30AM-12:00PM.  

Location: Center for Well-Being, Daniels Hall 102/Morgan Hall Wedge

Join the Center for Well-Being Peer Well-Being Ambassadors as they raise awareness for You Are Enough! on the upcoming Wellness & Community Day. Say hello to our Peer Well-Being Ambassador and grab your Wellness & Community Day passport to get free food on Wellness Day. Learn about the upcoming activities including our signature event from guest speaker Lisa Maddox on Multicultural Wellness. Wellness Day passports are also available at the Center for Well-Being Front Desk (Daniels Hall 102/Morgan Wedge) from 8:30AM-6:00PM starting on January 23rd-31st and on February 1st from 8:30AM-12:00PM. 

Location: Center for Well-Being, Daniels Hall 102/Morgan Wedge

Grad student 'lounge' to relax and recharge. 

Come to the Housing & Residential Experience Center for activities, snacks, give aways, and to relax and pet the dogs! Sponsored by the Housing & Residential Experience Center.

This interactive workshop is designed to discuss a humanistic approach to navigating microaggressions by introducing the Microaggressions Triangle Model.  This model is a framework for understanding and addressing microaggressions by dissecting microaggressions from various viewpoints: the source, the recipient and the bystander.  This model utilizes restorative justice practices to help individuals learn skills in addressing microaggressions and to create opportunities to repair the harm and trauma caused by acts of microaggressions. 

Bio: Lisa Maddox is the Director of Business Development and Community Outreach at the Multicultural Wellness Center (MWC). She joined MWC in August 2019. She comes to MWC with 16 years of working experience in the Worcester Public Schools as a School Adjustment and Guidance Counselor, Community Liaison, and Social Emotional Learning district trainer. Lisa has a B.S. in Urban Studies (concentration: Health and Human Services), an M.A. in Social Rehabilitation and Counseling, and a C.A.G.S. in Special Education from Assumption (College) University. In addition, Lisa coordinates and facilitates a black-identity, social-emotional youth development group for BIPOC youth between the ages of 13-17 utilizing culture as a protective factor. She has facilitated various trainings for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health regarding the following topics: Healing in the Discomfort of Racial Trauma, Identity-based Biases, Trauma and Healing, and Using Micro-resistance to Combat Microaggressions. 

More information can be found here.

Location: Unity Hall - RM420

Start your morning or unwind from the day with “Drop-In Arts and Crafts.” You can choose from coloring, designing your own rock, potting a plant, playing in the Zen Garden, building a puzzle or Legos, and so much more! Sponsored by the Center for Well-Being.   

Location: Center for Well-Being

Join our WPI senior and certified Zentangle instructor, Abigail Sumner, in this Zentangle activity in the CWB program room. Zentangle is an easy-to-learn art therapy method where participants get to draw unstructured patterns into images called “tangles.” You create tangles with a combination of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves, and orbs. These patterns are created on small pieces of paper called “tiles.” Your artwork on the tiles can be assembled into beautiful mosaics. Benefits from Zentangle include having increased focus, creativity, self-confidence, and an increased sense of well-being. RSVP here and secure your spot now or join us on Wellness Day -- Drop-ins are welcomed! Sponsored by The Center for Well-Being.  

Location: Center for Well-Being

Sigma Phi Epsilon 3v3 Basketball Tournament

There is nothing like the joy of transforming a plain square of paper into a container, flower, or animal. Origami is fun, easy, inexpensive, and great for sharing with others. Join the Innovation Studio Makerspace and Prototyping Lab and the Center for Well-Being for this relaxing and joyful experience. Drop-in between 12pm-2pm!  

Join the Crocodile River Music in a traditional dancing and drumming workshop with techniques taken from African rhythms, percussion instruments, and sounds.  In a single one-hour and thirty-minute workshop, participants are transformed from individuals making noise to a team making compelling music. Multiple studies show that different types of dance forms can contribute to healing, minimize stress and depression, and increase social connection. 

RSVP here and secure your spot now or join us on Wellness Day -- Drop-ins are welcomed! Sponsored by The Center for Well-Being, ODIME, African Student Association, and Black Student Union.  

Location: Rubin Campus Center, Odeum A

Sign up for a 15-minute Reiki session with certified Reiki master, Catherine Flayhan, as you experience healing in your whole-body by the gentle placement of the practitioner’s hands above or lightly on the receiver's body. Reiki is a healing practice that helps to bring your energetic body into alignment. Humans have two body forms. One is our physical body supported by our spine, bones, organs. We also have an energetic body with a central column that runs along our spine called a Sushumna. This is where the seven main Chakras live as well as the Nadis, which are channels that bring energy out to the rest of our body. Both can become out of alignment. When your energetic body is unaligned you visit a Reiki Practitioner. 

RSVP and secure your spot now or join us on Wellness Day -- Drop-ins are welcomed if there are openings! Sponsored by The Center for Well-Being. 

The Transfer Social is a time and space for transfers to come together, connect with peers and meet new people. Short activities such as coloring or crafts will be available. Tally Reeverts will be available to answer quick questions as well. Sponsored by Office of Academic Advising. 

Join us in this soothing session using healing instruments such as gongs, singing bowls, chimes, and more where participants are bathed in “sound waves” that bring healing to the body. Participants may experience relaxation, an increased sense of well-being, balanced energy, and deep awareness. This Sound Bathing session is offered from 1:00PM to 2:00PM. RSVP here and secure your spot now or join us on Wellness Day -- Drop-ins are welcomed! Sponsored by The Center for Well-Being

Location: Center for Well-Being - Program Room 102E

The Tea Club will be brewing and giving free tea to WPI students! Sponsored by the Tea Club. 

We will talk about the power of regulation with animate and inanimate objects and how they might assist in this. Whether it's a walk outside, birdwatching, stargazing, or feeling the wind against your skin - all of these remind us of the sacrality of vibrant matter. Sponsored by ODIME.

Part of the Healthy Eating on a Budget series: Mike Holding, Sous Chef from South Village, will demonstrate how to prepare a few Indian cuisine staples. Please limit sign up to 12 ppts. Sponsored by Chartwells.

Come join ASCE for some fun painting of concrete cylinders you can take home with you! Everyone is welcome. While supplies last. Sponsored by ASCE.

Stop in for a few snuggles or sloppy doggie kisses to help melt away anxiety and stress. Our furry dog friends will be awaiting your presence! To participate you’ll need to sign a waiver; you can download a copy here or sign the form on wellness day when you come by. Sponsored by the Center for Well-Being and PAWS. 

Location: Gordon Library Studio, Lower Level

Join us for vinyasa yoga. In vinyasa yoga, movements flow between yoga poses such as a plank, chaturanga, upward facing dog, and sun salutations to make a sequence. Expect to move from pose to pose, linking your breath to the movement of the body. Boost your mood, improve your sleep, and feel your stress roll away when you participate. Only 16 spots are available so secure your spot now. RSVP here or drop-ins are welcomed on Wellness Day as space. permits. For your comfort, please bring your yoga mat or use one of the yoga mats in the CWB.  Sponsored by the Center for Well-Being.

Location: Center for Well-Being - Program Room 102E

Show the staff of Gompei’s Goat Cheese three stickers in your Wellness Day Passport to claim your free delicious Mac & Cheese! Wellness Day Passports can be picked up at the CWB Front Desk from 8:30AM-6:00PM starting January 23rd to the 31st and on February 1st from 8:30AM-12:00PM. Participate in the signature event by Lisa Maddox on Multicultural Wellness and any two Wellness Day activities to get stickers in your Wellness Day Passport to earn free Gompei’s Goat Mac & Cheese. Gompei’s Goat Mac & Cheese will also be available for purchase for anyone who does not have a passport. Tell a friend to tell a friend! Sponsored by Center for Well-Being and Gompei's Goat Cheese. 

Location: Morgan Hall/The Wedge

Opportunity for faculty and staff to gather together, foster connections, and build community. Sponsored by Division of Talent & Inclusion and with Office of the Provost. 

In this session, we are going to get together in the Center for Well-Being to learn how to deal with war anxiety and also have a Persian dinner at the end of the session. Sponsored by the Iranian Student Organization.