Wellbeing weeks

Date: 27 November
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Location: Vrijhof/Atelier

For employees of a “thinking” organization, doing something with your hands can be wonderfully relaxing. And since the holiday season is coming up again, we’ve translated that into a Christmas bauble crocheting workshop.

In about an hour and a half, you’ll make your own Christmas bauble and we’re confident that everyone will leave with a ready-to-hang result 😊.

The workshop is designed for crochet beginners, but we’ll also provide a slightly more challenging pattern. You’ll receive all the materials you need, so you can make extra baubles at home afterwards. Who knows where we’ll see our handmade Christmas ornaments popping up this year!

PS: Bring your own lunch

Date: 27 November
Time: 13:00 - 15:30
Location: Logica

A reason to take a CPR course
Each year, 17,000 people in the Netherlands suffer a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital. The chance of survival is highest if CPR is started within 6 minutes. However, many people don’t know how to perform CPR.

Most cardiac arrests happen at home
About 70% of cardiac arrests occur at home, often involving a parent, partner, or child. A CPR course gives you the confidence and skills to take immediate action if a loved one experiences a cardiac arrest.

You can save lives
Anyone who has completed a CPR course can register as a civilian responder. If someone nearby suffers a cardiac arrest, you will receive an alert on your phone to take action. This way, you can help save lives.

Anyone can learn CPR
During the course, you’ll receive practical information that you can apply right away. You’ll practice with a CPR manikin and a training AED, and learn how to recognize a cardiac arrest.

Date: 27 November
Time: 14:00 - 15:00 & 15:00 - 16:00
Location: Waiting Room Topvorm Twente (sportcentre)

Relax, slow down, and unwind during a guided, individual walk in the nature surrounding the UT campus. Under the Well-being theme “Wake up your senses”, the focus is on awareness, recovery, and stress regulation. By paying attention to what you see, hear, and feel while moving, you can experience how sensory impressions can contribute to relaxation.

During the walk, there is room to discuss personal stress factors, and if desired, I will share insights into how stress works in your body. The goal is to help you maintain your own balance – both during and beyond the walk.

Date: 27 November
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Location: Main entrance Sports Centre

During the well-being weeks, “Wake up your senses!” is the central topic. If you want to experience different stimuli while walking/running then running therapy is a good option.

Running therapy helps you mentally and physically. Get out of your head and into your body to feel full of energy again! This activity will take place in groups of a maximum of 12 people. It is not a personal consult.  

Running therapy will be an activity that will take place throughout these four weeks and you can start with a session to find out if you like the Running Therapy. The goal is to get mental relaxation by physical effort (running or fast walking). This can be helpful if you have physical or mental complaints such as excessive worrying, depressive symptoms, anxiety- and/or panic attacks and fatigue complaints.  

During the small-grouped session, you will learn to recognize the signals your body gives you, and based on this you will get tools to set some boundaries. Running therapy is developed for those who recognize themselves in one of the complaints written above. No basic level of running or running experience is required to sign up for running therapy.    

Do you want to exercise under the supervision of an expert who will help you get grip on your complaints and helps you to find relaxation? Then sign up!  

Normally this therapy takes 8 weeks in a row, but during our well-being weeks you can try out whether this way of relaxation fits you. Getting to know more about running therapy and how it can help is the goal of this clinic during the well-being weeks, and in addition, you get some practical tips. After this experience, it is possible to start with the 8 weeks course in a row.  

Date: 27 November
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Location: Vrijhof/Amphi

Hearing, tasting, seeing, smelling, touching—our senses shape how we experience the world outside and within. Paying closer attention to them can boost both body and mind.

In this Studium Generale edition of Come to your Senses!, pianist Ketevan Sharumashvili lets you feel emotions through classical music, while food scientist Prof. dr. ir. Jaap Seidell (VU) invites you to taste and explains how our senses connect to emotions and consciousness.

Wake up your senses and sign up below.