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Enjoy a free 10-minute stress relieving chair massage sampler.

Increase your culinary competence. Join our small audience as Corporate Chef Kurt Kwiatkwoski, one of the neighborhood Executive Chefs, or Nutritionist Peggy Crum teaches a specific skill, invites questions, and entices us with a taste or two.

There is something about staring up at the night sky that is peaceful and relaxing, allowing us to forget about any stress that we may be experiencing.

The MSU Breathe Easy Program is a free tobacco, nicotine, and vaping cessation program featuring behavioral support and medical evaluation.

The ideal combination of stretching techniques partnered with simple yoga poses.

Each month on the date when the Recipe for Health is served in the dining facilities on campus, Chef Kurt will show us how to prepare the recipe.

Give yourself the opportunity to understand the emotion of shame and build solid shame resilience skills. This discussion may change the course of your life – it really is that important.

How do you want to show up, be seen, and live brave in your life?

Guided imagery is a form of directed day-dreaming that relaxes the mind and engages the senses in the physical and emotional healing process.

For MSU employees to discover the resources, programs, and people of the MSU Health4U program.

Learning these skills, concepts, and practices can change your personal experience of the pressures and challenges of graduate school.

Come join us for an open discussion about anxiety and depression and the numerous ways to identify, cope, and reach out for the support needed to help keep us safe and healthy.

Self-Compassion is a hidden factor in an employee's ability to provide sustainable high performance in their work and personal lives.

Learn to depend on awareness and trust of internal regulators as a guide for what and how much to eat.

Rest with Music returns to Abram's Planetarium for Fall 2023 – Summer 2024!

Open to MSU Faculty & Staff. MSU will compete with other wellness-minded Michigan Organizations in a 6-Week Virtual Walking Challenge, October 5th thru November 16th.

The MSU Academic Women's Forum creates a venue for discussing ways to support academic women working and doing research at MSU.

Learn informal mindfulness skills to help you find a sense of balance in your life.

Each Culinary Cooking and Concepts session offers you the opportunity to experience a fabulous meal served in the elegant and relaxed atmosphere of the University Club.

What helps a child to be a good eater?

This series of classes is a how-to approach to cooking and eating the Mediterranean way.

An emotional resilience training course designed to help you live at the intersection of healthy and high performing.

This three session course will focus on strategies to embrace rather than dread the winter months ahead. Join us for 1 or all 3 sessions!

An evening concert series to help you to let go of the stress of the day by listening to live music at Abrams Planetarium.

This course is a special offering of the MSU Academic Women's Forum. Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator Lisa Laughman will guide participants through Brene Brown's official Daring Way™ Curriculum.

Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook describes resilience as “the speed and strength of our response to adversity”. If you would like to increase your capacity for resilience this class is for you.

This 4 week course is based on the book “Don’t Feed the Monkey Mind: How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Worry, and Fear” by Jennifer Shannon, LMFT.

This four week course will introduce participants to a new understanding of listening, and how it can improve communication with your partners, friends, children, coworkers, bosses, and family members.

This three-session course will focus on developing skills to enhance friendship, manage conflict, and generate shared meaning in your relationship.

"Impostor Syndrome” is a thought pattern that can lead to chronic self-doubt, shame, and anxiety. You can break free of the impostor syndrome by interrupting self-defeating thoughts, and learning to effectively process natural feelings of anxiety.

These free group-exercise classes are a great way to getting active during the workday while enjoying the sights and sounds of MSU’s campus.

$ensible Meals sessions feature tips for managing common barriers to having meals. Peggy Crum, Health4U nutritionist, will demonstrate an idea or two for fast, frugal, and flavorful meals.

Continue Your Learning. Deepen Your Practice.

Improve efficiency of movement while running/walking. Injury avoidance practices.

If you can sit in a chair - you can do yoga!

If you are smitten with the mitten and would rather not move, come join us for an informational hour focused on Seasonal Affective Disorder and evidence-based coping options.

This webinar will describe the concept of ambiguous loss and unresolved grief specifically related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This course introduces the Health4U Resilience Training Model developed by lead emotional wellness consultant, Lisa Laughman, LMSW.

Participants will have the opportunity to learn a little about each of the 6 theories embedded in the model.

Best practices for physical activity in the workplace. Developing a culture of movement

After years of Raising Good Eaters (series for parents of young children), Health4U is offering this new series for parents of older children.

This course will define psychological safety, demonstrate how it is measured, explore how both leadership, faculty, and support staff contribute to or diminish the psychological safety of the team.

Engage in physical activity during winter months. Improve efficiency of movement while running/walking with the Good Form System. Build community through the shared experience of movement.

A weekly on-line support session for people grieving the loss of a friend, loved one, co-worker, or family member.

We are living and working in daunting circumstances. Our work and home lives have merged together in layered and complicated ways as we all do our part to “flatten the curve” of the novel coronavirus.

An 8 week resilience training course offered in support of MSU Employees currently experiencing furlough or layoff

Would you like to bring your attention back to your eating? Do you want to improve your relationship with food? Attend this session to discover the joy of eating in a tuned-in manner.

An opportunity to come together to examine impacts of national and global events/tragedies and exploration of self-care/work-effectiveness strategies.

Health4U and the University Club are delighted to announce that we are now offering Culinary Cooking & Concepts remotely!

The Health4U Program and WorkLife Office are partnering to bring you Wellbeing Wednesdays!

Identify common ergonomic stressors in the workplace. Learn strategies to avoid injury. Best practices for an ergonomically-friendly workspace.

Exploring effective strategies for time management. Improve skills that may help reduce strain related to task accomplishment and time constraints.

New in 2021, Health4U will be offering an all virtual ‘Health and Well Being Sampler Series’ to Units and Departments at Michigan State.

The MSU Health4U program presents a webinar series, created specifically for MSU Retirees.

Stretching and strengthening concepts that can be applied at home or in the workplace. Promotion of physical activity during the workday. Improved anatomical awareness.

When What You Know Doesn't Work Anymore

In order to help support faculty, the EAP is offering a monthly drop-in consultation group session.

Discuss the physiological importance of sleep. Identify the purpose of sleep for the body/mind. Describe the elements of good “sleep hygiene” and why consistency is the key in developing good sleep habits and preventing many sleep-related issues.

Identify common ergonomic stressors in the workplace. Learn strategies to avoid injury. Best practices for an ergonomically-friendly workspace.

The MSU Health4U Program is offering a book club series to support body acceptance.

When we are trying to move forward after a traumatic event, or significant loss, it is vital that we show up for ourselves in kind and loving ways. This is no time for our well-developed inner critics to be in control of our recovery.

Lets you work one-on-one with a registered dietitian. A doctor’s referral is not required.

Encourage the MSU community to take a break. Provide an educational and physically engaging activity. Explore MSU’s parklike campus.

This Webinar Series provides an opportunity to build emotional resilience and psychological flexibility skills to aid in the navigation of any work/life challenges you may be confronting now and in the future.

Explorations in Eating

Discover new recipes to share with your community, and Learn new kitchen skills and tips.

Learn different types of boundaries. Examine barriers to boundary setting. Practice developing and using boundary language.

Increase capacity to recognize burnout. Learn to “map your stress response”. Identify effective ways to complete your stress cycles.

Enjoy some mindful moments in the beauty of the Beal Gardens.

When's the last time you visited The MSU Museum?

Getting clear on our values, being present, and using curiosity to help guide more meaningful connection with our kids.

In response to the February 13th shooting on campus the Spartan Resilience Training Program is offering several reflect and connect sessions for MSU faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Join this exclusive Virtual Class at 7:00pm from the comfort of home. Yoga, meditation and ancient wisdom practices are blended with themes of nature to create an integrative healing experience. Offered only via Zoom

Gain an understanding of common nutrition myths

Identify basic salad dressing components, learn 2 new salad recipes and create your own dressing

Discover produce availability in Michigan and local options, learn new kitchen skills and tips and enjoy new recipes to try at home

Do you find yourself feeling worried, stressed, and anxious about the future?

Discuss the physiological importance of sleep. Identify the purpose of sleep for the body/mind. Describe the elements of good “sleep hygiene” and why consistency is the key in developing good sleep habits and preventing many sleep-related issues

Winter weather in Michigan can be cold and dreary and get you thinking about the warmer and brighter days ahead. If you’re not feeling the cold of the season, it might be time to look for ways to embrace the coziness of winter.

Has your lunch break mysteriously disappeared? It’s time to reclaim it!

Identify common ergonomic stressors in the workplace. Learn strategies to avoid injury. Best practices for an ergonomically-friendly workspace.

Supporting Someone Who is Grieving