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Emotional, Social and Spiritual Well-being Resources for SLU Employees

Develop Healthy Habits to Lower Stress and Improve Work-life Balance

A woman gets a massage at an employee health fair
 

Emotional wellness is the process of recognizing, understanding and accepting your emotions. It involves managing life's challenges, building nurturing and supportive relationships and fostering genuine connections with those around you.

Some tips to encourage emotional wellness include: 

  • Use mindfulness and other healthy ways to lower stress
  • Develop a healthy work-life balance
  • Participate in social events that create community

Supporting Emotional Well-being

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

The Saint Louis University Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a feature of the employee health package that provides access to professional counseling on a confidential basis. In addition, EAP services include training supervisors on how to refer employees if the need arises.

Confidential professional counseling is provided through ComPsych at no cost to staff and their families who are coping with a personal or family crisis.

Call 800-859-9319 to make an appointment or visit www.guidanceresources.com for more information. To register online, please use the Company ID "slueap"  and create your username and password. 

Mindfulness Classes

Noon on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Virtual classes on Zoom.

Meeting ID: 962 6979 8657  Password: Mindful!

Weekly mindfulness sessions are intended to help faculty and staff develop ways of finding joy and maintaining balance amid the “ups and downs” of life. The program consists of 30-minute weekly sessions hosted at noon.

The first five minutes are for settling in and centering; the next 15 minutes are for talking about an informal mindfulness topic such as “Dealing with Troublesome Emotions” or “Creating a Pause Between a Triggering Event and our Response to that Event.” The final 10 minutes are mostly silent meditation. 

The Mindfulness Program is led by Professor of Practice David Lander. Professor Lander has been connected with the school for many years. He helped start the Legal Clinics program, taught full-time for two years and has served as an adjunct 20 times, teaching such courses as bankruptcy law, commercial law, consumer law and secured transactions. He has had a personal meditation practice for 15 years and has taken courses in mindfulness teaching from MindfulSchools.org. In July 2015, he retired from a successful business bankruptcy private practice of law.

For more information, contact Professor David Lander at david.lander@slu.edu or 314-750-7773.

Mental Health First Aid 

Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use challenges. Each training requires two hours of online pre-work before the in-person or Zoom training. Participants will be set up in MHFA Connect well before the training day.

Mental Health First Aid Registration

For more information, contact Tori Harwood.

Live Well

Emotional Wellness: Prioritizing Self-care

Noon, Sept. 5, 2024

Participants will learn how to care for themselves while dealing with everyday challenges and issues, including learning about the pillars of health that will help with self-care. 

Register for Prioritizing Self-care

Disability and Neurodiversity: The Importance of Self-Care for Parents  

Noon, Sept. 10, 2024

This session covers basic wellness, time management, getting support from professionals and finding child care resources to give you needed time for rejuvenation.

Register for The Importance of Self-care for Parents

Aging and Adult Care: Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care 

Noon, Sept. 18, 2024

In recognition of World Alzheimer’s Month, this session will cover the signs, symptoms and stages of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, day-to-day caregiving techniques, how to communicate with a person with Alzheimer’s, financial assistance and insurance and resources for caregivers. It will also cover brain health and what are the possible ways to prevent dementia and improve cognitive performance.

Register for Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Care

Build Stronger Teams Through Emotional Intelligence

11 a.m., Sept. 19, 2024  

Building strong teams is critical to organizational success and workplace satisfaction but it is sometimes easier said than done. This is not only the task of leaders but everyone who takes part in a team at the organization. In this webinar, you will learn how emotional intelligence, that is, the ability to understand and manage your emotions, as well as recognize and influence the emotions of those around you, helps us with team building. 

Register Building Stronger Teams Through Emotional Intelligence

Child Care and Parenting: Success in School

Noon, Sept. 25, 2024

Learn which healthy habits are important, how to help teens deal with teachers and academics, organization, if your teen is over or under involved, dealing with peer pressure and discipline.

Register for Success in School

Supporting Spiritual Well-being

Connecting to Something Greater Than Yourself

Spiritual wellness is focused on a connection to something greater than yourself. It can provide you with a set of values, morals and beliefs to help guide your actions, forming habits that give you a sense of purpose and meaning. Steps to help with spiritual well-being include: 

  • Check in with your spiritual wellness
  • Reflect on your actions
  • Cultivate peace
  • Show compassion
  • Practice tolerance

Spiritual Wellness Resources and Events

Department of Mission and Identity

Employee Well-Being partners with the Saint Louis University Department of Mission and Identity.

Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, sought and saw God in all things and believed himself called to be a co-laborer with God. His vision of the world lies at the heart of the Jesuit method of teaching, research and service in place at Saint Louis University.

Saint Louis University’s Division for Mission and Identity invites you to discover what it means to work at a Jesuit university and the difference it makes to your profession and field of study.

Mission and Identity Programming

Mission Matters Podcast

The Mission Matters podcast is a weekly spotlight on a person, initiative or program at SLU that incarnates the Jesuit mission of the University. Hosted by Virginia Herbers, director of mission formation, each episode begins with a brief reflection, setting the stage for a member of the SLU community to give us a glimpse into how the mission is alive.

Listen to Mission Matters Now