Find Balance with November Webinars from Wellspring EAP

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ALLtech is proud to partner with Wellspring EAP to provide members enrolled in medical coverage with three free visits with a counselor each year. But support from the locally based employee assistance program (EAP) also includes resources available 24/7 through its robust online platform at wellspringeap.org.

Each month, Wellspring EAP also offers webinars that highlight its diverse services. For November, please consider registering for the following webinars that are free and open to anyone. Recordings will be sent to those who register after the live webinar and will be available online:

  • The Financial Wellness Playbook
    November 3, noon to 1 p.m. (PT)

    This class shares the habits commonly practiced by people who have little financial stress in their lives: the coaching staff of my Secure Advantage® (MSA) – the financial benefit provided through Wellspring EAP, which has has conducted over a million financial consultations. Presented by Tiffany Willis, the goal of this class is for attendees to take pride in the processes they are practicing well and develop an action plan to address the habits they would like to improve.

  • How to Be the Calm in the Storm During Emotionally Escalated Conversations (for Managers, HR Partners)
    November 8, 11 a.m. to noon (PT)

    We’ve all had that moment when we realize it’s about to get uncomfortable; we know we are in or about to get into a difficult conversation – maybe even a conflict. Each one of us has default and/or predictable and patterned ways of being in those moments and beyond. In this webinar presented by Carol Bowser, JD, you’ll learn to recognize your individual stress response style and cues so you can create a strategy that works for you rather than falling into your default behavior. You’ll learn to manage yourself under pressure as well as hold space for others who are also under pressure. Carol will share some of the common pitfalls many of us experience when situations are intense, and we will explore tools that can help avoid or mitigate the pitfalls and/or the consequences. We will discuss strategies that help you remain neutral. Get ready to have tools, language, and a framework to help you more elegantly navigate important conversations.

  • Sleep Skills for Travel
    November 9, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (PT)

    Travel is coming back in a big way, so it’s time to refresh your travel sleep skills so you can have a fabulous trip. Shifting our body clock doesn’t happen automatically, and can cause symptoms including digestive upset, daytime fatigue along with night time sleepiness, and irritability. Adding skills to help shift your body clock to the new time zone can make all the difference. Come learn from Dr. Catherine Darley, ND, how to prepare in advance of your trip, and what to do when you arrive. We’ll talk about strategies from light and dark exposure, timing of melatonin supplements, mealtimes and more.

Seeking More Joy in Your Life? Tap into the Power of Purpose

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Research has demonstrated that there are many benefits to living life with a sense of meaning and purpose. People who maintain connection to the meaningfulness and purpose of what they are doing tend to be healthy, wealthy and wise, not to mention happy.  Whether you find purpose in relationships, your faith or philosophy, your work and play in the world, or experience life as personally meaningful, this has a significant impact on your well-being.

This is especially important during difficult times when stress and the weight of responsibility is heavy. Our daily routine uses so much of our energy, it can be easy for our sense of purpose to fade into the background. With some intention, difficult times can actually serve to strengthen, clarify, or shape our sense of purpose, and our connection with purpose can be a vital source that sustains and guides us through challenging circumstances.

Learn how to Tap into the Power of Purpose at noon Tuesday, March 28, 2023, from Wellspring EAP, the employee assistance plan offered through ALLtech. During this webinar, you will have the chance to:

  1. Identify what is most meaningful in your life
  2. Clarify your sense of purpose
  3. Develop practical and concrete strategies to tether you to the purpose in your daily life

ALLtech partners with Wellspring EAP to offer an employee assistance plan (EAP) that features up to three in-person meetings with a counselor, along with diverse online resources. To learn more, view our Wellspring EAP summary of benefits.

Join Wellspring EAP Webinar on Grieving a Lost World: When Assumptions Change Overnight

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As we begin the fourth year of a global pandemic along with associated lockdowns, closures, and supply chain disruptions, many of us have experienced unpredictable changes – sometimes overnight. Many of us are finding our long-held and often invisible assumptions shaken or proven untrue. Looking at what we have lost and what has changed – and, if necessary, grieving – can be a powerful step in moving forward in our new reality despite the knowledge that things will continue to change further.

ALLtech partners with Wellspring EAP to offer an employee assistance plan (EAP) that features up to three in-person meetings with a counselor, along with diverse online resources that include a monthly live webinar that allows for a deeper connection in our increasingly virtual world.

Please consider joining ALLtech for Wellspring’s featured webinar on Grieving a Lost World: When Assumptions Change Overnight, from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. During this webinar, you will have the chance to:

  • Gain a deeper understanding of the impact of unpredictability and uncertainty
  • Understand the role grief plays and how to manage it effectively
  • Explore assumptions we held and how we are impacted when reality is not how we assumed it would be
  • Adopt strategies for moving forward with a new normal that may not match our expectations

January On-Demand Webinar Focuses on Sleep Health

Additional featured Wellspring resources for January include the on-demand webinar Caring for Yourself Through Winter: Maintaining Your Sleep and Energy.

People often experience sleep changes when the nights become longer and the days darker. This is due to a combination of factors – less daytime light, decreased exercise, changes in eating habits, and even holiday events have an impact. Join Dr. Catherine Darley to explore how these factors impact both our sleep and daytime energy, then discuss strategies to keep sleeping well, and keep our energy up throughout the season until the brighter days of spring.

Register here to view the webinar on-demand.

To learn more about the diverse benefits EAP available to ALLtech members, view our Wellspring EAP summary of benefits.

Watch Now: Leadership Tools to Refresh and Energize Your Body, Mind and Heart

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To help support wellness in the workplace and beyond, ALLtech is reaching out to invite members and the greater tech community to the valuable workshop series Mindfulness for People Leaders from partner Newfront.

The above video, Refill Your Cup, is the most recent workshop from March 22, which offers resources to help you:

  • Recognize the warning signs of chronic stress and burnout.
  • Build the habits that refresh and energize the body, mind and heart.

These are important topics after the past two years of unprecedented challenges and transformational change to the workplace, from managing the pandemic to addressing racial inequalities, to enabling a work-from-home workforce. And for each of these challenges, people leaders have been called on to help organizations adapt and thrive. This has stretched people to the limits of their capabilities.

Designed to help people leaders build the mindset and skills to navigate the challenges of their roles, the workshop series provides powerful, mindfulness-based tools and techniques to avoid burnout, increase resilience, and enhance their effectiveness in the crucial roles that they play.

Previously recorded workshops in the series also can be viewed below:

ALLtech partners with Newfront to offer access to the EVOLVE 401(k) retirement plan. Advanced Professionals Insurance & Benefit Solutions, the managing general agent for ALLtech, also is the wholesale benefits division of Newfront.

Watch Now: Gain Leadership Skills to Help You Connect with Kindness

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To help support wellness in the workplace and beyond, ALLtech is reaching out to invite members and the greater tech community to the valuable workshop series Mindfulness for People Leaders from partner Newfront.

The above video, Connect with Kindndess, is the most recent workshop from March 1, which offers resources to help you:

  • Understand the mistakes that people make when having difficult conversations.
  • Learn the strategies and practices that can make these conversations easier and more productive.

These are important topics after the past two years of unprecedented challenges and transformational change to the workplace, from managing the pandemic to addressing racial inequalities, to enabling a work-from-home workforce. And for each of these challenges, people leaders have been called on to help organizations adapt and thrive. This has stretched people to the limits of their capabilities.

Designed to help people leaders build the mindset and skills to navigate the challenges of their roles, the workshop series provides powerful, mindfulness-based tools and techniques to avoid burnout, increase resilience, and enhance their effectiveness in the crucial roles that they play.

The final workshop in the series from 10-10:45 a.m. March 22 will cover the topic Refill Your Cup, offering tools to help you:

  • Recognize the warning signs of chronic stress and burnout.
  • Build the habits that refresh and energize the body, mind and heart.

Even if you are unable to attend, you can register to receive updates about the series including links to watch the workshops on demand. Previously recorded workshops in the series also can be viewed below:

ALLtech partners with Newfront to offer access to the EVOLVE 401(k) retirement plan. Advanced Professionals Insurance & Benefit Solutions, the managing general agent for ALLtech, also is the wholesale benefits division of Newfront.

Feeling Stressed or Burned Out? Gain Tools to Cope with Mindfulness Series

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As the exclusive employee benefits partner for GeekWire, ALLtech is dedicated to sharing wellness resources not just for its members, but also for the region’s greater tech community. To help support wellness in the workplace and beyond, ALLtech is reaching out to invite members and the greater tech community to the valuable workshop series Mindfulness for People Leaders from partner Newfront.

The past two years have brought unprecedented challenges and transformational change to the workplace, from managing the pandemic to addressing racial inequalities, to enabling a work-from-home workforce. And for each of these challenges, people leaders have been called on to help organizations adapt and thrive. This has stretched people to the limits of their capabilities.

To help people leaders build the mindset and skills to navigate the challenges of their roles, Newfront has designed the Mindfulness for People Leaders series to provide powerful, mindfulness-based tools and techniques to avoid burnout, increase resilience, and enhance their effectiveness in the crucial roles that they play. Next month, the series continues from 10-10:45 a.m. with:

  • March 1, 2022: Connect with Kindness
    • Understand the mistakes that people make when having difficult conversations.
    • Learn the strategies and practices that can make these conversations easier and more productive.
  • March 22, 2022: Refill Your Cup
    • Recognize the warning signs of chronic stress and burnout.
    • Build the habits that refresh and energize the body, mind and heart.

Even if you are unable to attend, you can register to receive updates about the series including links to watch the workshops on demand. Previously recorded workshops in the series also can be viewed below:

ALLtech partners with Newfront to offer access to the EVOLVE 401(k) retirement plan. Advanced Professionals Insurance & Benefit Solutions, the managing general agent for ALLtech, also is the wholesale benefits division of Newfront.

Watch Now: Calm the Critic Mindfulness Webinar for People Leaders

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To help support wellness in the workplace and beyond, ALLtech is reaching out to invite members and the greater tech community to the valuable workshop series Mindfulness for People Leaders from partner Newfront.

The above video, Calm the Critic, is the most recent workshop from February 8, which offers resources to help you:

    • Explore the critic that we carry in the mind, and how it can de-motivate us and stress us out.
    • Discover the practices and mental strategies to reduce self-judgment and calm the inner critic.

These are important topics after the past two years of unprecedented challenges and transformational change to the workplace, from managing the pandemic to addressing racial inequalities, to enabling a work-from-home workforce. And for each of these challenges, people leaders have been called on to help organizations adapt and thrive. This has stretched people to the limits of their capabilities.

Designed to help people leaders build the mindset and skills to navigate the challenges of their roles, the workshop series provides powerful, mindfulness-based tools and techniques to avoid burnout, increase resilience, and enhance their effectiveness in the crucial roles that they play.

Next month, the series continues with the following workshops:

  • March 1, 2022: Connect with Kindness
    • Understand the mistakes that people make when having difficult conversations.
    • Learn the strategies and practices that can make these conversations easier and more productive.
  • March 22, 2022: Refill Your Cup
    • Recognize the warning signs of chronic stress and burnout.
    • Build the habits that refresh and energize the body, mind and heart.

Please click below to watch previous workshops in the series:

Watch Now: Don’t Worry, Be Present Mindfulness Webinar for People Leaders

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To help support wellness in the workplace and beyond, ALLtech is reaching out to invite members and the greater tech community to the valuable workshop series Mindfulness for People Leaders from partner Newfront.

The above video, Don’t Worry, Be Present, is the most recent workshop from January 25, which offers resources to help you:

  • Understand how constant change and uncertainty can drain the body and mind.
  • Build the mental habits to help you let go of worry and come back to the present moment with a sense of balance and possibility.

These are important topics after the past two years of unprecedented challenges and transformational change to the workplace, from managing the pandemic to addressing racial inequalities, to enabling a work-from-home workforce. And for each of these challenges, people leaders have been called on to help organizations adapt and thrive. This has stretched people to the limits of their capabilities.

Designed to help people leaders build the mindset and skills to navigate the challenges of their roles, the workshop series provides powerful, mindfulness-based tools and techniques to avoid burnout, increase resilience, and enhance their effectiveness in the crucial roles that they play.

There’s still time to sign up for the next workshop in the series, Calm the Critic at 10 a.m. February 8, 2022, which will:

  • Explore the critic that we carry in the mind, and how it can de-motivate us and stress us out.
  • Discover the practices and mental strategies to reduce self-judgment and calm the inner critic.

Next month, the series continues with the following workshops:

  • March 1, 2022: Connect with Kindness
    • Understand the mistakes that people make when having difficult conversations.
    • Learn the strategies and practices that can make these conversations easier and more productive.
  • March 22, 2022: Refill Your Cup
    • Recognize the warning signs of chronic stress and burnout.
    • Build the habits that refresh and energize the body, mind and heart.

Please click below to watch previous workshops in the series:

Explore and Learn to Calm Your Inner Critic at Next Mindfulness Session on Feb. 8

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Does your inner critic need some calming these days? ALLtech partner Newfront has just the workshop for you as part of its Mindfulness for People Leaders series, which continues February 8, 2022, with the session Calm the Inner Critic.

The past two years have brought unprecedented challenges and transformational change to the workplace, from managing the pandemic to addressing racial inequalities, to enabling a work-from-home workforce. And for each of these challenges, people leaders have been called on to help organizations adapt and thrive. This has stretched people to the limits of their capabilities.

Designed to help people leaders build the mindset and skills to navigate the challenges of their roles, the workshop series provides powerful, mindfulness-based tools and techniques to avoid burnout, increase resilience, and enhance their effectiveness in the crucial roles that they play.

We hope you will consider joining us for the Feb. 8 session, Calm the Inner Critic, from 10-10:45 a.m., which will help you:

  • Explore the critic that we carry in the mind, and how it can de-motivate us and stress us out.
  • Discover the practices and mental strategies to reduce self-judgment and calm the inner critic.

Each session in the six-part course includes research-based content, interactive exercises, and grounding mindfulness practices, as well as practical tips that can be implemented in the workplace. Click the below links to view previous sessions or to sign up for upcoming sessions:

ALLtech partners with Newfront to offer access to the EVOLVE 401(k) retirement plan. Advanced Professionals Insurance & Benefit Solutions, the managing general agent for ALLtech, also is the wholesale benefits division of Newfront.

Gain Tools to Let Go of Worry and Come Back to the Present at Jan. 25 Webinar

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The above webinar, “Manage the Distracted Mind,” is the second session in the Newfront series “Mindfulness for People Leaders.”

As the exclusive employee benefits partner for GeekWire, ALLtech is dedicated to sharing wellness resources not just for its members, but also for the region’s greater tech community. To help support wellness in the workplace and beyond, ALLtech would like to remind you that there’s still time to register for tomorrow’s webinar Don’t Worry, Be Present from partner Newfront.

The past two years have brought unprecedented challenges and transformational change to the workplace, from managing the pandemic to addressing racial inequalities, to enabling a work-from-home workforce. And for each of these challenges, people leaders have been called on to help organizations adapt and thrive. This has stretched people to the limits of their capabilities.

To help people leaders build the mindset and skills to navigate the challenges of their roles, Newfront has designed the Mindfulness for People Leaders series to provide powerful, mindfulness-based tools and techniques to avoid burnout, increase resilience, and enhance their effectiveness in the crucial roles that they play.

Tomorrow’s session from 10-10:45 a.m. January 25, 2022, will cover:

  • Understanding how constant change and uncertainty can drain the body and mind.
  • Building the mental habits to help you let go of worry and come back to the present moment with a sense of balance and possibility.

Check out the full series below, each of which includes research-based content, interactive exercises, and grounding mindfulness practices, as well as practical tips that can be implemented in the workplace:

ALLtech partners with Newfront to offer access to the EVOLVE 401(k) retirement plan. Advanced Professionals Insurance & Benefit Solutions, the managing general agent for ALLtech, also is the wholesale benefits division of Newfront.