As a university-wide initiative, we want to ensure that everyone in our university community understands and feels welcome to engage with the Wellness Collaborative. Addressing holistic wellness at our university requires input and involvement from everyone, and we are here to support you in this. Here are some ways that you can get involved with the Wellness Collaborative.
Join the Community of Practice
Your opportunity to network and learn with others.
The Community of Practice (CoP) is one way of participating in the Wellness Collaborative. The CoP brings together relevant partners across job descriptions, disciplines, department/units, and affiliated colleges to increase awareness of health and wellness-related work across campus. This is done by:
- Networking – facilitated activities that focus on increasing participant’s understanding of each other’s roles, expertise and professional networks.
- Professional development and capacity building – presentations or workshops that increase knowledge and skills of participants. Examples of this could include a presentation about the results of resilience literature review, or workshops on effective strategies for student engagement or program evaluation.
- Consultation – opportunities to provide input or consultation on various health and wellness-related activities and initiatives across campus.
- Collaboration – identify opportunities for coordinating and leveraging of each other’s health promotion and wellness work outside of the CoP to minimize duplication.
Involvement in the Community of Practice is open to all University of Waterloo members. Follow this link to join the CoP MS Team and receive invitiations to upcoming meetings.
For information about the mandate and composition of the Advisory Committee, open up the PDF below for the Terms of Reference.