Your guide to helping Lumberjacks Live Well
Live Well NAU aims to create a culture at NAU that recognizes health and wellness as a core tenet of the institution.
How YOU can support student wellness
Live Well NAU has created tools to help you infuse wellness into our students lives.
- Decide you’re going to support student wellness: Plan a wellness-oriented event and use this guide for inspiration.
- Download the wellness wheel graphic: Choose the graphic that best fits the dimension of wellness that will be supported by your event.
- Use the icon: Place it in the corner of any marketing for your event. Certain activities may overlap between different dimensions. Do your best to highlight one dimension or consider using the full wellness wheel if your event reflects two or more aspects of wellness.
- Submit your events to the NAU Events calendar: Select the appropriate wellness category so your event will be featured on this page.
- Collaborate with campus partners: Reach out to Health Promotion to consult on best practices for specific health-related topics or cohost with another office.
Event examples:
- Invite staff from Career Development to host a resume writing workshop (occupational).
- Host a trash pickup on a trail near campus (environmental).
- Organize a volunteer opportunity (spiritual).
- Lead a guided meditation (emotional/spiritual).
Other event considerations
If you’re faculty, staff or a registered student organization, you can support your fellow Lumberjacks by designing events that support wellbeing. Some of the steps you can take include:
Support healthy eating Accordion Closed
- Order filling and nutrient dense snacks: Fruits, vegetables, hummus, string cheese, and yogurt are easy options.
- Focus on sugar free drinks: Choose water, fruit infused water, and unsweetened tea/coffee when serving beverages.
Help your students reduce stress Accordion Closed
- Stay positive: Use your social networking to put out inspirational quotes or encouraging messages, especially during challenging times like midterms or finals.
- Encourage relaxation: Incorporate short meditation exercises into events or meetings, or meet outside when the weather is nice.
- Find ways to move: Plan group activities such as walking meetings or hikes near campus.
Foster social connections Accordion Closed
- Give back: Encourage volunteering within the community-doing good is a great way to feel better as individuals and more connected as a group. Visit the Civic Service Institute or All For Good to find local volunteer opportunities.
- Encourage community in the classroom: Create curriculum that help others meet new people and foster meaningful discussions.
- Partner up: When you’re planning classes and activities, take a minute to scan opportunities to have a speaker from Student Affairs to share wellness tips.
Support an inclusive campus environment Accordion Closed
- Be an ally: Register your group for a Zone Training through IMQ to learn how you can support diversity and create a more inclusive NAU.
- Become an active bystander: Register your group to participate in Health Promotion’s Take a Stand! training to learn the skills to intervene for a number of scenarios, including sexual assault prevention and discrimination.
Time events to support wellness Accordion Closed
- Host a program or event during times when students would otherwise consume alcohol (Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights after 10 PM).
- On weeknights, limit late night events, deadlines, and meetings to encourage good sleep hygiene.
Support academic and career achievement Accordion Closed
- Schedule organized study and homework times during class as time allows, especially prior to midterms and finals.
- Invite staff members from NAU Career Development to host an interview or resume writing workshop.
If your group is interested in becoming a partner in our prevention group and have exclusive access to the Live Well NAU graphic, e-mail livewell@nau.edu for more information.
Conversation guide
When talking to students about their wellbeing, there are helpful and not-so-helpful things we can say. Below are key messages to share with students that will support their wellbeing.
Supporting healthy eating Accordion Closed
- Aim for 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily.
- Drink adequate water.
- Eat food regularly throughout the day.
- Share food insecurity resources – Louie’s Cupboard and Louie’s Leftovers.
- Limit caffeine intake.
- Focus on ADDING healthy items versus removing or restricting less healthy items.
Supporting physical activity Accordion Closed
- Aim for 5 times per week for 30 minutes, including moderate aerobic activity.
- Meet students where they are and encourage joyful movement.
- Refer to UCAN Health Coaches for one-on-one goal setting.
- Create opportunity for movement in your work with students like walking meetings, activity challenges, etc.
- Collaborate with Campus Recreation.
Promoting healthy sleep Accordion Closed
- Know how much is “enough” and encourage 7-9 hours most nights.
- Connect to GPA: Get more Z’s to get more A’s.
- Share sleep hygiene information like establishing a sleep and wake routine.
- Avoid normalizing all-nighters.
- Discuss time management to help student build time for sleep into planners.
- Shape the sleep environment for healthy sleep. Do you have late night events or deadlines?
Developing resilience and managing stress Accordion Closed
- Help students identify strengths and provide feedback on those strengths.
- Celebrate and share failures as well as successes.
- Incorporate social skills practice and feedback.
- Teach emotion management.
- Develop mindfulness by building in reflections, journaling, or meditation into session.
- Explore meditation apps, videos, and more.
- Develop organizational skills.
- Set realistic expectations.
Creating connections Accordion Closed
- Create a safe space.
- Model and develop empathy.
- Encourage students to learn and practice emotional intelligence.
- Discuss healthy conflict resolution skills.
- Discuss social media and its effects.
- Identify commonalities in students.
- Make time to socialize.
How to tag “Live Well” when submitting an event to the NAU Events calendar.
- Navigate to the NAU Events calendar website (https://events.nau.edu/)
- In the top, right corner, click on the “Menu” dropdown.
- When clicking on the menu dropdown, under the Calendar section, click “Sign In.”
- You will be prompted to CAS log in, then you will be redirected to the main NAU Events calendar website.
- Navigate back to the top, right corner, click on the “Menu” dropdown, then “My Profile” under Calendar section.
- Hover over the left side, slide menu, and select “Create An Event.”
- Fill out the “Event Details”, “Location & Time” sections.
- Then in the “Categories & Keywords” section, under the “Category” dropdown, select one of the Live Well Dimensions.
- Live Well NAU
- Live Well NAU\Emotional
- Live Well NAU\Environmental
- Live Well NAU\Financial
- Live Well NAU\Intellectual
- Live Well NAU\Occupational
- Live Well NAU\Physical
- Live Well NAU\Social
- Live Well NAU\Spiritual
Wellness Resources
Live Well NAU
Health Promotion
928-523-2131
Dean of Students
928-523-5181
Medical Services
928-523-2131
Counseling Services
928-523-2131
Campus Recreation
928-523-1733