Passport to Health and Wellbeing

Key details: To support staff wellbeing. Please discuss this programme and obtain approval from your manager before submitting your request.

Audience

  • Academic staff
  • Professional staff
  • Research staff
  • Research supervisors

Programme information

OSDS and the University's Health & Wellbeing Group have worked together to develop a holistic programme to support staff wellbeing. There are  4 themes: Mental, Physical, Nutritional  and  Workplace  wellbeing. Participants need to attend 4 core courses, plus a minimum of two optional courses for each theme: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/osds/passport-programmes/health-wellbeing/

Core

4 courses - you have to complete all of the following instances:

  • Eating Well
  • Enjoying an Active Lifestyle
  • Mental Wellbeing/Steps for Stress
  • Your University: Your Wellbeing

Mental wellbeing

9 courses - you have to complete 2 of the following:

  • Let's Talk: Menopause
  • Mentally Healthy Workplace - Training for Managers
  • Mindfulness
  • Positive Psychology - The Science of Happiness
  • Resilience in the face of change - part 1
  • Resilience in the face of change - part 2
  • Scottish Mental Health First Aid - 2 day Course
  • Successful Sleep & Relaxation Workshop
  • Wellbeing for Carers

Nutritional wellbeing

5 courses - you have to complete 2 of the following:

  • Eating Well - Menopause
  • Eating Well for Families
  • Food and Mood
  • Sober October: Home Kombucha Tasting by Luvians
  • Sober October: Kombucha Tasting by Luvians

Physical wellbeing

7 courses - you have to complete 2 of the following:

  • Active August
  • Cancer Awareness Talk and Lab Tour
  • Jump Out Of January
  • Stay Home/Stay Fit
  • Step Count Challenge
  • Wee Walk Once a Week (WWOW)
  • Yoga (various)

Workplace wellbeing

10 courses - you have to complete 2 of the following:

  • Assertiveness Skills
  • Creating Positive Outcomes - from difficult conversations
  • Dealing with Difficult Behaviour 1
  • Dealing with Difficult Behaviour 2
  • Focus-Plan-Do It
  • Love Later Life
  • Time Management
    • Monday 13 May 2024
    • Wednesday 11 September 2024
  • Understanding interpersonal needs using FIRO-B
  • Understanding Thinking Styles
  • Your Coach

Programme organiser

OSDS
Email: osdscourses@st-andrews.ac.uk