The research is clear: when we bolster the health of our physical bodies, we also grow the robustness of our intellectual bodies. Health compounds like interest. Small, consistent behavioral deposits, like a short walk, pay off surprisingly far beyond their apparent size. Yet these are often the first accounts we let lapse when strained under the pressures of our faculty roles and our wider lives. This fall faculty are invited into a supportive cohort of colleagues built around creating exactly this kind of compounding. Each participant commits to engaging consistently in one of the following nourishing, health-relevant activities shown to offer outsized long-term physical and mental benefits: rest, movement, mindful eating, play, or social connection. Brief weekly engagement in a private online accountability group, with light coaching along the way, keeps the investment active until our December session, when we’ll gather to take stock of what compounded, what proved harder to sustain, and what we’re carrying forward into how we grow a healthier, more vitalized faculty culture together. These individual small deposits, practiced together, are how we grow a healthier, more vitalized faculty culture with real reserves for drawing on as needed.
Limited to 15 faculty members who commit to the September 23 and December 2 sessions.