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Living Health & Wellbeing Week Fall 2025
Explore the Elements of Wellbeing
During Living Health Week, the Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory University's Center for Student Wellbeing, and the Wellbeing Leaders Coalition invite you to explore the different aspects of your wellbeing. Wellbeing is about practice, not perfection; it is a lifelong journey of reflection and growth that varies for each individual. It's normal for certain aspects to require more attention on some days than others. Take the time this week to discover what resonates with you, be kind to yourself, and remember that wellbeing is dynamic and uniquely your own.
Embrace Your Elements
- Emotional - Recognizing and expressing emotions, managing stress, and practicing self-compassion
- Environmental - Creating spaces that promote calmness and connection
- Financial - Spending mindfully, saving intentionally, and planning for your goals
- Intellectual - Nurturing curiosity through learning, creativity, and exploration
- Physical - Caring for your body and noticing what brings you energy and groundedness
- Professional - Exploring career paths and building meaningful skills and connections
- Relational - Building meaningful connections with others and yourself
- Spiritual - Exploring values, engaging in reflection, and seeking meaning and peace
MONDAY, October 20, 2025
- Text Based Challenge - Professional
Students who sign up will be receive a daily text on a simple action to take related to their professional well-being. Participants will be entered into a drawing for a prize at the end of the week.
All week - To Join: Text @cswprofess to 81010 - Emory's Open Gardening Workdays - Environmental
All gardens around campus are operated by Emory's office of Sustainability and they have open garden workdays for anyone to join throughot the week. Come dressed for garden work.
Cox Garden 11am-12pm, and Woodpec Garden 12-1pm - Group Fitness Classes @ WPEC & SAAC - Physical, Relational
Daily Group Fitness Classes offered at both the WoodPEC and SAAC include yoga, pilates, dance, cycling, strength and more.
Varying Times @ WPEC and SAAC - Register for classes and see schedule @ https://my.recwell.emory.edu/ - Fall Flow & Sound Bath - Physical
Join us for a calming evening of yoga and sound. Enjoy an all-levels fall-inspired flow designed to ground your body and mind, followed by a soothing sound bath to leave you deeply restored. The practice will be guided by Kira Young, a registered yoga teacher who specializes in mindful, restorative practices. Please bring a yoga mat or towel to practice on and wear comfortable clothing. Come as you are - no prior yoga experience needed.
6-7 pm, 2nd Floor Dance Studio at the Woodruff Emory PE Center - Make a friendship bracelet! - Intellectual, Relational
Drop in any time during TechLab hours to make your own friendship and/or decorate a bead to add to our GIANT friendship bracelet. Bring a friend and hang out, or come solo for a nice mindfulness activity.
12-8PM, TechLab
TUESDAY, October 21, 2025
CSHH Living Health Week Exclusive Event
- Breathing & Meditation for a Calm Mind - Spiritual, Emotional
A guided breathing and meditation session with Dr. Donald Noble for a clear and calm mind.
4-5pm, Rich 205 - Click to RSVP
- Rollins Ambassador Event - Professional
Rollins Ambassadors give a brief overview of their concentrations and share any advice they have for applicants interested in public health. During the second part of the session, separate tables will be set up with an ambassador from each program to answer questions 1-on-1.
5:30pm - 6:30pm R. Randall Rollins Rm. 100 (on 2nd level of building) - Group Fitness Classes @ WPEC & SAAC - Physical, Relational
Daily Group Fitness Classes offered at both the WoodPEC and SAAC include yoga, pilates, dance, cycling, strength and more.
Varying Times @ WPEC and SAAC - Register for classes and see schedule @ https://my.recwell.emory.edu/ - Make a friendship bracelet! - Intellectual, Relational
Drop in any time during TechLab hours to make your own friendship and/or decorate a bead to add to our GIANT friendship bracelet. Bring a friend and hang out, or come solo for a nice mindfulness activity.
12-8PM, TechLab - Emory Gardens Tour - Environmental
Tour of all the Emory Gardens. Meeting at the Cox Garden oputside Cox Hall at 2:30 pm-3:30 pm.
2:30-3:30 pm, Cox Garden
WEDNESDAY, October 22 2025
CSHH Living Health Week Exclusive Event
- Health Storytelling Author Q&A - Intellectual
Professor Maryn McKenna Interviews Starre Julia Vartan on her book "THE STRONGER SEX: What Science Tells Us about the Power of the Female Body".
6pm - 7pm via Zoom - Click to RSVP
- Group Fitness Classes @ WPEC & SAAC - Physical, Relational
Daily Group Fitness Classes offered at both the WoodPEC and SAAC include yoga, pilates, dance, cycling, strength and more.
Varying Times @ WPEC and SAAC - Register for classes and see schedule @ https://my.recwell.emory.edu/ - Navigating Campus resources - Emotional, Physical
Informing students on the various resources on campus related to relationship issues or partner violence and knowing the differences between confidentiality and non-confidential resources.
5:30 in front of Woodruff Library - Chill-out Room - Emotional, Physical
Take the edge off midterms at the library's pop-up Chill-out Room! Offering chill vibes, natural lighting, open study space, and free refreshments (including coffee, tea, and snacks). Stay to study or chat, or just stop by for a quick bite.
Woodruff Library 213, 2-4:30PM - Typewriter Petting Zoo - Intellectual, Emotional
Get hands-on with a variety of vintage typewriters at the Typewriter Petting Zoo, exploring the mechanics, rhythm, and charm of analog writing. This tactile experience celebrates the history and cultural impact of typewriters, complementing the Striking Characters exhibition at Emory Libraries.
Jones Room, Robet W. Woodruff Library, 1-5PM - Make a friendship bracelet! - Intellectual, Relational
Drop in any time during TechLab hours to make your own friendship and/or decorate a bead to add to our GIANT friendship bracelet. Bring a friend and hang out, or come solo for a nice mindfulness activity.
12-8PM, TechLab
THURSDAY, October 23, 2025
CSHH Living Health Week Exclusive Event
- Financial Wellbeing: Money, Meaning & Me - Financial
How does money shape who I’m becoming, and how do I want that relationship to grow? Through guided reflection and shared conversation, we’ll explore the connections between money, meaning, and identity - and leave with one or two personally meaningful next steps that align with your overall wellbeing.
1-2:30pm, Tarbutton 313 - Click to RSVP
- Question, Persuade, Respond (QPR) - Emotional
Question, Persuade, Respond (QPR) is a suicide prevention training that teaches you how to recognize warning signs, ask caring questions, and connect someone to help—like CPR for mental health. Be part of a caring campus—join QPR training and learn how to offer hope and save a life.
6-7:30 pm; AMUC 235 - Registration required (limited to 25 people): https://forms.office.com/r/e7BWkvyLuW - Group Fitness Classes @ WPEC & SAAC - Physical, Relational
Daily Group Fitness Classes offered at both the WoodPEC and SAAC include yoga, pilates, dance, cycling, strength and more.
Varying Times @ WPEC and SAAC - Register for classes and see schedule @ https://my.recwell.emory.edu/ - Intersections in Health, Writing, and Art. - Intellectual, Relational
An Emory student literary magazine club hosting a panel of Emory faculty about the intersections between Health, Writing & Art.
6-7pm, MSC 201 - Chill-out Room - Emotional, Physical
Take the edge off midterms at the library's pop-up Chill-out Room! Offering chill vibes, natural lighting, open study space, and free refreshments (including coffee, tea, and snacks). Stay to study or chat, or just stop by for a quick bite.
Woodruff Library 213, 2-4:30PM - Make a friendship bracelet! - Intellectual, Relational
Drop in any time during TechLab hours to make your own friendship and/or decorate a bead to add to our GIANT friendship bracelet. Bring a friend and hang out, or come solo for a nice mindfulness activity.
12-8PM, TechLab - Speed Friending - Relational
Do you want to meet more people, in a rapid fire and low stakes way? Join us for Speed Friending! Take the chance to meet new people and make connections.
5:30-7:30pm, Tull Plaza (behind Tarbutton)
FRIDAY, October 24, 2025
- Emory's Open Gardening Workdays - Environmental
all gardens around campus are operated by Emory's office of Sustainability and they have open garden workdays for anyone to join throughot the week. Come dressed for garden work.
2-3pm Theology Garden - Group Fitness Classes @ WPEC & SAAC - Physical, Relational
Daily Group Fitness Classes offered at both the WoodPEC and SAAC include yoga, pilates, dance, cycling, strength and more.
Varying Times @ WPEC and SAAC - Register for classes and see schedule @ https://my.recwell.emory.edu/ - Make a friendship bracelet! - Intellectual, Relational
Drop in any time during TechLab hours to make your own friendship and/or decorate a bead to add to our GIANT friendship bracelet. Bring a friend and hang out, or come solo for a nice mindfulness activity.
12-6PM, TechLab - Colors and Connection - Relational, Emotional
Campus Colors & Connection combines the power of art-making and conversation to bring people together through authentic engagement and interaction.
1-2pm and 2-3pm at Carlos Museum Tate Room - Paint Your Feelings - Emotional, Relational
De-stressing through painting.
2-3:30pm, Cox Art Lab
