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Wellness Book Club

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The OCIH Wellness Book Club is for all University of Utah employees. We will choose books that relate to the pillars of health, or how we move, eat, sleep, and connect with ourselves, others, and the world around us. The goal of creating a space to discuss wellness is to elevate the University of Utah employees’ well-being and our campus wellness culture.

Book club conversations will ultimately touch on topics like personal well-being and how to care for self, professional well-being, and how to show up at work and in front of others. In collaboration with the Marriot Library, OCIH has chosen the following books for FY25:

Super Communicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

Marriott Library  hardcover.

Virtual meeting Monday, November 18th at 11AM

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Meeting ID: 298 986 632 469, Passcode: T27nKF

 

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

Marriott Library playaway and hardcover.

Virtual meeting Monday, October 21st at 11AM

Microsoft Teams: Join the meeting now

Meeting ID: 296 444 965 345, Passcode: kJq3Cv

Guidelines for Discussion

  1. Try On. Be open-minded to others’ ideas and feelings, even when they are very different than your own.
  2. It’s ok to disagree. While we have many similarities, it’s OK to acknowledge our different perspectives.
  3. Learn to respond to others with honest, open answers instead of counselling, correcting, or attacking. Make your conversation goal to listen and share, not to change people’s minds.
  4. Speak your truth in ways that respect other people’s truths. Our views of reality may differ. Use “I” statements (I think, I feel, I believe), trusting others to do their sifting.
  5. Practice “both/and” thinking. This invites us to see that more than one reality or perspective can be accurate simultaneously, rather than “either/or,” right or wrong, good or bad.
  6. Observe deep confidentiality. I agree that nothing said in this conversation of trust will be repeated to others.

Past Books:

  1. FY24: Atomic Habits by James Clear, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Weathering by Dr. Arline T. Geronimus