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ARN has launched a brand new enterprise initiative, Well being & Wellness Month, rolled out throughout the whole month of October, demonstrating its dedication to supporting its employees throughout these difficult instances and past.

ARN’s Well being & Wellness Month comprised of a calendar of digital occasions throughout October, together with stay speaker classes, podcasts, Ted Talks, train classes and way more, designed to empower and encourage employees to take management of their bodily and psychological well being.

The content material of the initiative was impressed by energist Sean Corridor’s workshop, Enhance Your Power & Gentle Up Your Mind, which ARN employees participated in earlier this yr. Every week, this system theme focussed on one in all Sean’s 4 ‘F’s’, being Gas (train, sleep and meals), Fireplace (objective, ardour, targets), Emotions (kindness and gratitude) and Focus (concentrate on what issues).

ARN’s Individuals & Tradition and Social groups developed the energising and uplifting program for 520 staff nationally, classes happened nearly and at handy instances. Employees had been inspired to enrol in any classes they like all through the month, with prizes up for grabs for getting concerned.

To rejoice Well being & Wellness Month, ARN additionally launched a brand-new digital radio station on iHeartRadio, The Get Up with employees track requests of hits that carry them. ARN employees, together with anybody focused on well being and wellness, are invited to tune in.

ARN’s Individuals & Tradition Operations Supervisor Belinda Hilton, who has led the initiative, mentioned: “We had been excited to have the ability to provide Well being & Wellness Month to ARN staff proper throughout Australia.

“With so many individuals experiencing emotions of isolation, loneliness, melancholy, lack of motivation and poor vanity on account of adjustments on this new COVID world, there has by no means been a extra essential time to nurture bodily and psychological well being.

“It was necessary to us to be inclusive, with classes to swimsuit everybody and matters together with getting a terrific night time’s sleep, time administration, stay meditation, laughing yoga, Batyr Psychological Well being, group private coaching, diet, discovering your objective, and way more. There was even a stay Q&A with our ARN on-air expertise who mentioned how they keep on prime of their very own well being and wellbeing.

“It was rewarding to see so a lot of our ARN colleagues embrace the initiative and take part within the classes. Our intention is to supply a way of connection for our employees throughout these robust instances, and equip them with the instruments they should greatest take management of their lives, their bodily well being and health, and their psychological well being.”

ARN’s CEO Ciaran Davis mentioned: “We’ve received nice individuals working at ARN, and we’re particularly pleased with this initiative which was designed to help our employees throughout what has been a really difficult yr.

“Our intention with Well being & Wellness Month was to supply our colleagues a secure place to spice up their well being and health, to start out conversations about psychological well being and encourage them to succeed in out for help, and to study priceless coping and life administration expertise.

“We firmly consider a wellbeing technique is essential for the general well being and happiness of employees, and significantly for our associates and colleagues in Melbourne who had been massively impacted by stage four lockdown.

“Sustaining good bodily and psychological well being can be linked to boosting productiveness within the office so, from a enterprise perspective, we additionally see super worth in using this initiative.”

In line with Past Blue, three million Australians stay with nervousness or melancholy, and analysis exhibits this concern has solely been exacerbated by the robust instances introduced by COVID-19.

A Monash College examine carried out from April to Might 2020 discovered that nearly 50 per cent of Australian respondents had skilled at the least one Publish Traumatic Stress Dysfunction (PTSD) symptom, together with however not restricted to emphasize, nervousness, melancholy or suicidal ideas, related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s with these common statistics in thoughts that ARN’s Individuals & Tradition and Social groups developed Well being and Wellness Month.