As a UW employee, you have access to childcare benefits from KinderCare and Bright Horizons. This November and December, join UW Work-Life and The Whole U for casual, open house style events designed to help you learn more about these benefits and offer a space for you to ask questions. Session will include a brief [...]

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The Whole U is celebrating Husky Strong Day on August 11 and invite all within the UW community to join us on Zoom for a wide variety of free, fitness Zoom classes. The first 1,500 to register for Husky Strong Day received a Husky Strong Day hat shipped to their preferred address, but anyone is [...]

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Summer is in full swing and summer camps are back in session! If you’re looking to sign your athlete up for a sports camp this summer, there’s no better experience than working with the coaches and athletes of our very own UW Husky team’s. Find the camp’s that are right for your athlete out of [...]

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Through the Affinity Home Buying benefits, UW employees have access to no-cost Home Buying Webinars taught in conjunction with the WA State Housing Finance Commission. Considering buying a home? Attend an upcoming FREE Zoom webinar and learn how to build a budget, prepare your credit, and get a comprehensive overview of the home-buying process from [...]

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The UWAA’s signature scholarship fun run is going virtual for 2021. Register to join The Whole U team and walk, jog, run or wheel your distance wherever you please on April 17 or April 18. Set your own pace, chart your own path — take control of your Dawg Dash experience wherever you are! With [...]

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This spring, The Whole U is offering a free, self-paced virtual course developed to reduce burnout and increase wellbeing and self-compassion to 200 UW Medicine frontline healthcare workers who identify as female. CARE, a course developed by Associate Professor Jane Compson provides training in compassion, awareness, resilience, and empowerment with the specific goal of protecting [...]

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This February, all are invited to join UW Athletics in celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day at the following virtual events. Join meaningful conversations and get to know some of the UW Athletics women players. You can even submit a personal message to display during UW Athletics events on the Alaska Airlines Arena [...]

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Explore new cultures through dance and reignite your creativity! Thank you to our Whole U partner Rey Valdes, director of LaClave Cubana for offering these free beginner classes in January. Reinier Valdes was born in Habana, Cuba. He first started dancing to the Afro Cuban rhythms at a young age of 13. Reinier was immediately [...]

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Kick off 2021 by attending webinars designed to motivate you for the year ahead and structure your goals. You’ll learn about tried and true mindsets for weathering the storm and taking control of what you can. These webinars are presented as part of The First 90: A New Year’s Challenge to Make 2021 Count. In [...]

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UW Wellness Week is a week focused on bringing you events, classes, and information sessions about total well-being. Attend sessions that are of interest to you and explore areas of wellness you want to learn more about. There are so many amazing well-being programs and resources at the University of Washington. Get to know them [...]

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Throughout COVID-19, our staff and faculty have risen to every challenge the pandemic has thrown at them. From providing care in UW Medicine’s hospitals and clinics, to keeping our facilities safe and clean, to redesigning classes, research and student programs to work remotely, UW employees have led the way with excellence, resilience, curiosity and compassion. [...]

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The following webinars and webinar recordings are hosted by Kaiser Permanente and available to all employees, regardless of Kaiser Permanente enrollment. Coping with COVID-19 & Beyond: Addressing wellness during uncertainty Our schedule and daily lives have changed dramatically. The COVID-19 pandemic has potentially affected your mental, physical, and emotional health. It is especially important during [...]

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