Wellness

Well-being Courses From LinkedIn Learning

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    Managing Your Emotions at Work

    Knowing how to manage your emotions in a dynamic and complex work environment is a skill. Discover how your body influences your mind's ability to regulate emotions, how to practice self-empathy and acknowledge your emotions, and how to responsibly express emotion at work. Plus, learn how to engage in practices such as orienting, grounding, and centering that allow you to become a more emotionally intelligent, resilient person—at work and at home.

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    Mindfulness Practices

    Mindfulness reduces stress, increases focus, and improves your ability to deal with challenges, both at work and at home. With regular practice, mindfulness can change the course of your life. With these practices, you can actually experience in-the-moment inspiration, learn how to deal with difficult people, manage change, and confront fears. Each lesson is tied to an accompanying practice, which will help you change the structure of your brain to respond better to stressors.

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    De-stress: Meditation and Movement for Stress Management

    Finding healthy ways to eliminate stress—to de-stress—is critical to a happy, healthy life. This course introduces a series of guided meditation and movement exercises that allow your body and mind to relax and refocus. Instructors from Desk Yogi leads you through grounding techniques to clear your mind while you’re seated at your desk.

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    Managing Stress for Positive Change

    In the workplace, stress is often viewed in purely negative terms. It's seen as a response that should simply be minimized or pushed aside; however, it's possible to use stress to fuel positive change. In this course, learn how you can train yourself to use stress in more effective ways; and what managers can do to reduce employee stress when an organization experiences difficult times.

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    Managing Anxiety in the Workplace

    We all get anxious at times. But what do you do when anxiety is disrupting your job? This course provides resources to help you manage your anxiety and be more effective and successful at work. Dr. Srini Pillay, a Harvard-trained psychologist, explains how to recognize anxiety and understand when you need clinical help. For those who can manage day to day, he provides guidance to navigate the ins and outs of the workplace: from finding a job to having more successful interactions with coworkers.

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    Subtle Shifts in Thinking for Tremendous Resilience

    Negative thought patterns can be self-fulfilling. How we react to external events is often determined by our internal mindset. Feeling empowered and satisfied requires us to shift our thinking. In this course, learn to adjust your recurring thought patterns to find your greatness, enhance emotional wellbeing, and enjoy work more every day. (Audio only course.)

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    Productivity Principles to Make Time for What’s Important

    Make time for what’s important by streamlining what’s not. Learn how to design your day and be more productive. To get things done, you need to concentrate on what’s meaningful to you. The course reveals two things that keep you feeling busy and distracted, and the energy hacks and productivity tools you can use to laser your focus and maximize the energy you have to be creative and get your best work accomplished.

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    Building Resilience

    Everyone wants to perform well when the pressure's on, but a lot of us withdraw in times of stress or adversity. If you can build your resilience, you'll have an easier time facing new challenges and earn a valuable skill to offer employers. This course outlines five training techniques to prepare for difficult situations, and five strategies for reflecting on them afterward. Find out where you are on the resilience scale, identify where you want to be, and learn strategies to close the gap.

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    Chair Work: Yoga Fitness and Stretching at Your Desk

    Find time for fitness. Learn simple yoga and stretching exercises you can do at your desk. The instructors at Desk Yogi have adapted traditional yoga poses into exercises that are suitable for the office. Follow along and learn basic stretches, bends, and exercises that help you improve your posture, strengthen your muscles and joints, increase blood flow, and keep you feeling strong and energetic throughout the day. This simple daily investment in your body—a program you can complete on your lunch break—will carry your through the work week and beyond.

Resources for well-being

MUS Employee Assistance Program

This benefit is available to all MUS employees and household members and offers access to confidential, free counseling services, stress tools, financial planning resources, resources for managers, and much more. To learn more about the EAP program, enter MUS as the username and password on the member benefits page. EAP Webinars available:

UM Well-Being Website

This website gathers well-being resources across campus for students, employees, and families.

Mental Health Training: Kognito : A Virtual, Interactive On-line Mental Health Training

Kognito is an interactive simulation to train students, faculty, and staff in recognizing signs of mental health issues, distress, and suicide, as well as how to communicate with and refer at-risk students. It provides practice conversations through role-plays with virtual students and may be completed at the user’s desired pace. Learn how to recognize the signs of emotional distress, initiate a conversation leveraging evidence-based communication strategies, and how to make a referral to support services. Learn more at the Curry Health wellness website or send questions to kayli.julius@mso.umt.edu or 406-243-6719.

  • The training takes 45-minutes and all students and employees at UM can create an account using their university email.
    1. Use enrollment key:umontanaemployee
    2. Launch by clicking on: at-risk for Faculty and Staff

Greater Good’s Guide to Wellbeing during Coronavirus

UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center provides stories, tips, and tools for these uncertain times in our global community. They offer resources for stress and anxiety, fostering connection, well-being resources for parents, and well-being resources for educators.

Keeping UM connected

Want to stay connected to your UM community? This is a schedule of activities to help you have fun, pass the time, stay healthy, and prepare for your future.

Shifting the Narrative on Mental Health: Liberation through Choice and Equity

Recorded video sessions are available from the Disability Rights Montana's virtual conference (2021). 

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