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Challenge Accepted: Raise the Bar in Review

As summer soon shifts into autumn, the UW community begins to look ahead to the new academic year. In addition to the excitement of a campus bustling with students and the spirited competition of fall athletics, there’s a lot to look forward to! From UW Yoga Month and the UW Medicine Heart Walk in October [...]

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Are you ready to Raise the Bar this Summer?

I personally cannot believe that Spring Quarter is coming to an end! What a year it’s been at UW. However, even in looking back on all of the wonderful events and moments of 2019 we’ve shared as a program in the past year, I am most excited for this summer. Why? Because summer means it’s [...]

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150+ teams ‘Raise the Bar’ for workplace wellness

Summer is at an end and, with it, The Whole U’s Raise the Bar challenge officially comes to a close. But that doesn’t mean momentum from two months focused on fostering healthier habits at work won’t carry forward into Fall Quarter! Over the course of July and August, more than 150 teams and still hundreds [...]

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Summer Spotlight: Raise the Bar Week 7

As the skies cleared and the temperature dropped a bit going into our last week of our Raise the Bar summer challenge, teams were able to find a few unique ways to eating well during their lunch hour. See how some teams celebrated the cool down during Week 7 of our summer wellness challenge. We will [...]

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Summer Spotlight: Raise the Bar Week 6

With clouds of smoke engulfing Seattle and UW, teams were still able to fire up ways to foster wellness in the workplace, from lunches with other teams to funny wellness walls. Check out how UW fought through the haze during Week 6 of our Raise the Bar summer challenge. (Catch up on our recaps from [...]

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Summer Spotlight: Raise the Bar Week 5

Whether teams were enjoying great music and a collegial atmosphere at Sylvan Grove or checking off items in our 30-Day Kindness Challenge, Raise the Bar participants once again came up with plenty of ways of taking steps to a healthier, kinder, more compassionate summer. Take a look at how UW kept it live during Week [...]

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Summer Spotlight: Raise the Bar Week 4

UW made waves in Week 4 of Raise the Bar—rounding out a creative, connection-filled first month of our summer challenge for fostering wellness in the workplace! (Don’t miss the items from Week 1, Week 2, and Week 3). What did Week 4 hold in store? Let’s find out! Making Waves Mary Jane Lohr, project director for Moms & [...]

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Summer Spotlight: Raise the Bar Week 3

UW teams and individuals entered Week 3 of the Raise the Bar summer wellness challenge ready to build on momentum from Week 1 and Week 2. The sun was out and temps were blazing, but that hardly stopped hardy packs of Huskies from cruising to success in activities ranging from organizing a community clean-up walk to [...]

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Raise the Bar with the August in Action Outdoor Fitness Series at UW Tacoma

Reinvigorate your fitness routine this month by joining the University Y for August in Action, a 4-week outdoor fitness series designed to increase activity at work! The series will run August 9 – August 30, every Thursday from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. starting at the Steps of the Prairie Line Trail. Each week will [...]

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Summer Spotlight: Raise the Bar Week 2

Whether it’s staying active, eating well, or building stronger team relationships, the UW community continues to share the ways they’re cultivating a culture of wellness in the workplace as part of our ongoing Raise the Bar summer challenge. Every Wednesday through August, we’re featuring your stories of developing healthier, more positive work environments in our weekly Summer [...]

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Raise the Bar with 3 Bollywood Fitness Classes this August!

Join the Whole U for a rare opportunity to try something new and switch up your fitness routine! There will be three chances to participate in this Bollywood-inspired workout that will have you dancing through lower and higher intensity pieces that follows the HIIT format: August 16, at the HUB in the Lyceum, from 5:15 [...]

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Summer Spotlight: Raise the Bar Week 1

We’re just 10 days into the Raise the Bar summer challenge, but have already heard from so many participants about how they’ve been working to build stronger cultures of health and wellness in their workplaces. Betty Lanman of UW Radiology perhaps said it best: “I think it’s important to incorporate wellness at work because I [...]

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