If you haven’t already done so, make sure you RSVP to the save-the-date that Kate sent out several weeks back (check your calendar on August 12th to see if you’ve replied).
The planning committee has been working hard scheduling all sorts of great activities for you to take part in on August 12. In the next few days we will send you a link to register for sessions and choose your lunch. In the meantime, take a look at the session options and start planning how you want to spend the afternoon!
Agenda
12:00–1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00–1:15 pm
Welcome
1:15–2:00 pm
Session 1
2:15–3:00 pm
Session 2
3:15–4:00 pm
Session 3
4:00 pm
End of day surprise!
Location
On Fairview Commons (map), beside the Earth Sciences Building at Main Mall and Stores Road.
Session Descriptions
CREATE
Knitting (Sessions 1 & 2)
Two sessions will be offered by our very own Jessica Scott from Student Financial Services:
- Knitting for beginners: Always wanted to learn how to knit? Here’s your chance to learn how. This class will teach you the basics of knitting while making your very own wash cloth. No experience required. Left and Right handers welcome! This class will teach you how to cast-on, knit, purl, and cast-off. Knitting supplies will be provided and you get to keep them too!
- Intermediate knitting: This class will move beyond the knitting basics and teach how to knit in the round, increase stitches, decrease stitches, and learn about felting wool projects. We will make a Felted Dryer Ball. Dryer Balls help dry laundry faster, soften clothes, and reduce static cling. Knitting experience required. Need to be comfortable with cast-on, knit, purl, and cast-off. Left and Right handed knitters welcome! Knitting supplies will be provided and you get to keep these ones too!
Craft Zone (all sessions)
The art of upcycling
up·cy·cle
- To reuse (discarded objects or material) in such a way as to create a product of a higher quality or value than the original.
Join this crafty session to get your creative juices flowing and create something beautiful with something discarded. We will be creating art by using old book pages from books that were donated and discarded. Using ink stamps and image transfer markers, we’ll make artwork that’s fitting for your office wall or your refrigerator. Gather with colleagues, create something, and leave with a little piece of artwork to keep or give away.
Zen Colouring
Focus body and mind and relax while colouring peaceful Japanese landscape scenes.. or feel free to bring your own picture to colour!
Materials will be provided. All levels of crafters welcome!
Make your own products with The Soap Dispensary (session 3)
Learn how to make a natural dry shampoo and beautiful bath bombs with The Soap Dispensary. Pamper yourself or make as gifts and save money! The Soap Dispensary is an eco refill shop on Main Street that promotes DIY projects and carries a large selection of soaps and raw material to help you make natural skincare and beauty products. Everyone is welcome.
LEARN
Biking 101 (sessions 1 & 2)
Offered by the AMS Bike Co-op, Bikes 101 is a classroom based introductory workshop with everything you need to know about getting started with cycling! From the basics of bike maintenance, to instruction on riding best practices and key safety standards, these workshops give participants the tools to be practical and informed cyclists.
Sessions will cover the basics of getting into cycling, bike mechanics and maintenance. No bike or biking experience necessary.
Career wellbeing (session 3)
Join UBC’s Career Navigation & Transition Consultant, Pooja Khandelwal, for a career wellbeing workshop that will help you discover and design opportunities for your professional success based on your career strengths. Wellbeing encompasses all aspects of our being, and your career is a large part of that. The workshop will be a combination of the ‘Leading from Self to Success’ and ‘Making the Connections’ workshops.
UBC art tour with the Belkin Gallery (session 1: walking, session 2 &3 combined: biking)
Have you ever sat in a time machine? Since the late 1950s, UBC’s Outdoor Art Collection has captured the imagination of visitors from around the world about diverse topics such as conservation and development, our relationship with First Nations, and how we picture our past and future. There are over 20 works of art across the campus.
Session 1: “UBC’s Outdoor Art Collection – Walking Tour”. Join the Belkin Programs staff on a mini-tour of 5 works located near the Belkin Art Gallery.
Session 2-3: “UBC’s Outdoor Art Collection – Bicycle Tour” (approximately 1 hour 45 minutes in length, BYOB—bring your own bike). Join the Belkin Programs staff on a mini-tour of 8-10 works located near the Belkin Art Gallery.
MOVE
Yoga (sessions 1 & 2: Lyla, session 3: Verina)
Two sessions will be taught by Lyla Popa. Lyla’s yoga classes are a moving mediation meant to stretch, strengthen and balance the physical body and at the same time, give our minds a break, a well deserved time out so we can recharge our batteries. All levels welcome.
A third session will be taught by our very own Verina Zhang. Verina has completed the YYoga 200-hour teacher certificate. Her session will be a Flow Yoga style class which focuses on alignment, breath, simple and direct approach. Modifications will be offered to suit all levels.
Pilates (sessions 1, 2 & 3)
Pilates is done on a mat and involves movements that are similar to yoga, but with an emphasis on strengthening your core. Beginners are welcome, as classes can be adapted to all levels. Your instructor, Naomi Joy Gallagher, is passionate about the study of embodied movement, and teaches with intelligence, creativity and curiosity. With extensive training in pilates, Hatha (physical) yoga, anatomy, somatic emotional release, and vinyasa sequencing, she weaves a unique class designed to unite the mind, body and soul. Naomi also teaches vinyasa flow yoga on campus twice a week at International House. All levels welcome.
Zumba (sessions 2 & 3)
Zumba fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a unique fitness program that will blow you away. Zumba’s choreography incorporates a wide variety of dance styles in a high energy setting. Students should come to class with an open mind and be ready to sweat, move, and shake their booty. All levels welcome.
RELAX
Essential Oils (sessions 1 & 2)
Basic Refill is a refills shop where you can find daily basic home cleaning products that are biodegradable, non-toxic and chemical-free for everyone and mother-nature. The idea of refill is not only an easy and straight-forward concept toward a “green” lifestyle, but also a practical solution towards the ever increasingly importance of sustainability.
Erica Yap, owner of Basic Refill will share with you:
- Benefits of Essential Oils
- Uses of Essential Oils3
- Easy DIY recipes to take home
Meditation (sessions 1, 2 & 3)
Tym Cyr, founder of The Do Less Project, will offer three meditation sessions suitable for all levels from beginner to advanced individuals:
- “Anyone Can Meditate”
- “The Mind-Body Connection : The Heart of Meditation”
- “Meditate. Where Ever – When Ever”
DISCOVER
CIRS building guided tour (sessions 1, 2 & 3)
The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) is a hub for sustainability on UBC’s Vancouver campus. The CIRS building is an innovative place that includes sustainability features such as a waste heat recovery system that collects thermal energy from a neighbouring building, a solar hot water system, a geo-exchange system that harvests rejects heat from and to the ground, photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight into electricity, a rainwater purification system, a wastewater treatment system to treat and recycle all the liquid waste generated in the building and other buildings, living systems such as a green roof and a vegetated façade and much more. It demonstrates how a building can be regenerative by improving its environment and the community it serves.
Beatty self-guided tour (all sessions)
Explore the university’s spectacular biological collections, with 20,000 square feet of exhibits showcasing over 500 permanent exhibits at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Among our two million treasured specimens are a 26-metre-long blue whale skeleton suspended in the atrium, the third-largest fish collection in Canada, and myriad fossils, shells, insects, fungi, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants from around BC and across the world.
Nitobe self-guided visit (all sessions)
The Nitobe Memorial Garden, a traditional Japanese Tea and Stroll garden located at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Nitobe Garden is considered to be the one of the most authentic Japanese gardens in North America and among the top five Japanese gardens outside of Japan, the Nitobe Garden includes a rare authentic Tea Garden with a ceremonial Tea House.
CHOOSE
(all sessions)
A selection of sports and games equipment will be available if you’d like to throw a football around or challenge your colleagues to a bocce match.
Posted on behalf of the ES Wellness Afternoon Planning Committee
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