Wellbeing
Caring for the Whole Student
Your wellbeing matters! Make time to explore the various dimensions of wellbeing and create an environment to optimize your health. You deserve to feel well!
Participation Benefits
- Develop a deeper sense of purpose and meaning in life
- Increased harmony with nature and self
- Enhanced network to buffer against adverse life events
- Minimize risk of depression and reduce stress
- Improved health outcomes
- Improved thinking, learning, and judgment skills
Get Well
WELLBEING FUNDING
We strive to support student organizations and campus departments that want to host events related to lifelong activity and wellbeing. Complete this form to be considered for wellbeing funding for your event. The mission of campus recreation is to connect, educate and inspire people to lifelong activity and wellbeing. Our leadership team will review all funding requests for alignment with our goals, impact, and funding availability. Requests should be submitted at least three weeks in advance of the event or initiative.
Six Dimensions of Wellbeing
Wellbeing is a humanistic approach to life incorporating several dimensions. Achieving an optimal level of wellbeing is an ongoing personal journey. The concept of wellness is holistic, meaning that one area cannot be neglected while another is fulfilled.
1. Physical
Maintaining the health of your body
Physical wellbeing involves being attentive to your body’s needs. This includes seeing your physician regularly, getting sufficient sleep each night, eating a well-balanced diet, staying hydrated, and getting plenty of exercise.
2. Social
Healthy interactions with others
Social wellbeing emphasizes the importance of relationships. Connecting with others to share life experiences allows you to exchange support and develop a sense of fellowship and belonging. Those who are socially well create relationships based on interdependence instead of codependency. These healthy relationships involve mutual trust and respect.
3. Spiritual
Awareness of Personal Beliefs
Spiritual wellbeing is about exploring and discovering the meaning and purpose of life. Each person’s understanding of spirituality can be religious or secular; spiritually balanced people have an appreciation for the depth of life and a thorough understanding of themselves. Explore spiritual and religious student organizations.
4. Environmental
Responsibility for your surroundings and the recognition of interdependence with nature
Environmental wellbeing involves learning more about our physical surroundings and our role in keeping them healthy, safe and sustainable.
5. Emotional
Cultivating awareness and acceptance of your feelings
Emotional wellbeing involves recognizing, managing, and appropriately expressing a wide range of feelings, including happiness, joy, fear, anger and sadness.
6. Occupational
Experience personal achievement and satisfaction
Occupational wellbeing enriches your life by selecting appropriate leisure activities and career pursuits. Occupationally satisfied people will choose a career consistent with their beliefs, goals, lifestyle, and values. One must have an understanding of the commitment, preparation and discipline required to achieve success in his or her desired profession.
Campus Recreation Wellbeing Assessment
In Spring 2020, we surveyed to assess the wellbeing of students.
We found that:
- 59% of students get at least seven hours of sleep a night
- 65% of students eat fruit or vegetables daily
- 74% of students have a faculty or staff member who they can talk to about their goals
- 80% of students agree that there are faculty or staff who help them feel like they belong at the university.
- 55% of students get at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity five times a week.
We want to help you achieve your wellbeing goals! Feel free to contact us and let us know how we can help.
This study was conducted with the help of Wake Forest University Wellbeing Collaborative.
WE care about your wellbeing
START YOUR ACTIVE JOURNEY!
Contact Us
- Campus Recreation
- 903.468.3181
- [email protected]
- 2600 W. Neal St.
- Commerce, TX 75428
