The Wellness Crisis in society has opened up a new opportunity for lifelong learning programs. Employers and managers in the workplace are now acutely aware of the issue, and the impact wellness has on employee productivity and workforce satisfaction. Companies and work organizations are now eager for wellness activities for their people, and are looking for ways to promote wellness.<\/p>\n
Enter – –\u00a0 you: recreation departments, community education in public schools, community colleges and university continuing education and lifelong learning programs in other settings.<\/p>\n
Members in last month\u2019s Virtual Gatherings from all settings reported an increased interest and registrations in wellness offerings.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind: All avocational classes and events are wellness classes for people today. Avocational classes lower stress and anxiety, and offer a pastime to help improve a person\u2019s feeling of well being.\u00a0 As LERN\u2019s Julie Coates says, \u201cEvery class is a wellness class.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three opportunities are emerging with LERN programs:<\/p>\n
1.Group discounts for business and organizations. 2.Customized training at the site. 3.Establish a relationship. If you do contract training, wellness in the workplace is one of two Big growth areas right now and will be discussed at the upcoming Contract Training Conference, June 11-13, 2024.<\/p>\n Click on \u201cEvents & Education\u201d off the LERN Home Page for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Wellness Crisis in society has opened up a new opportunity for lifelong learning programs. Employers and managers in the workplace are now acutely aware of the issue, and the impact wellness has on employee productivity and workforce satisfaction. Companies and work organizations are now eager for wellness activities for their people, and are looking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":19869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lern-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19870,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19868\/revisions\/19870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Promote your classes to business and add the incentive of group discounts.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Take a class or program to the workplace site.\u00a0 Also look to do customized training for an employer\u2019s managers.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Offer to establish a longer term relationship with a specific business or organization to deliver programs or services over a longer term.<\/p>\n