Workplace Wellness Lunch and Learns

Lunch and learns and workshops that educate, empower, and support your people

Our team of experts explore a range of data-backed topics including nutrition, mental health, mindfulness, and movement in bite-sized, actionable tips tailored to your health and well-being goals.

Choose from either in-person lunch and learns in Toronto or Vancouver, or virtual webinars anywhere you and your teams are located.

Click here to view a list of our available topics and wellness workshop ideas.

Practical wellness advice, great turnout and active engagement

If you’re concerned about your team’s mental health and the potential high stress levels and burnout, HEAL’s lunch and learns are IT. We meet your team members wherever they are in their wellness journeys, empowering them to feel less stressed, more engaged, and happier in their work and personal life.

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What's Included in Our Lunch & Learns?

Promotional materials including posters and email invites

Interactive workshop + Q&A (one-hour, in-person or virtual)

Video recording and slides sent out after for you to share with your team

Follow-up one week meal plan for nutrition topics

Supportive handouts that summarize key takeaways and helpful tips

We’ll send you post lunch and learn feedback survey and results

Our lunch and learns are consistently rated 5 stars by participants.

What our lunch and learn clients are saying…

"This webinar is a “must have” for any company hoping to boost employee wellness. Great info and also great energy and engagement.”

Rachel Kaviani, Elastic Path

“Thank you Mandy! That was INCREDIBLE and the interns were so engaged. I was shocked at how many questions they were asking. Can’t wait for the next two.”

Ashley Marks, Electronic Arts

“Yesterday’s session was fantastic! Thank you for your high energy, solid information, and discount codes! I love that you are informative and not preachy.”

Suzanne Hendricks, Turner Construction Company

“Natalia did an excellent job delivering helpful information in an encouraging manner. There was no shaming for any less healthy behaviours/diets, the information was presented in a helpful, friendly, encouraging manner.”

Jamie, East Side Games

Lunch and Learn Series

Check out how HEAL designs and implements transformative custom wellness programs for a range of fantastic organizations.We offer a suite of six tailored lunch and learn wellness workshops that will motivate and inspire your team members, spaced out at intervals that work best for you. We’re also happy to create a customized workshop series of any length, so don’t hesitate to ask and find out more.

THE HEALTHY FOUNDATION SERIES

Actionable tips and strategies around nutrition, mental health, and movement that support a healthy workforce. This is a great starting point for companies who are new to HEAL’s workplace wellness and lunch and learns.

Eating for Energy

What to eat and drink throughout the day to maximize energy and focus.

Busting Stress + Boosting Happiness through Nutrition

How to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression via nutrition and learn the science behind nutrition’s powerful effects on mood.

Intro to Mindfulness + Meditation

Beginner-level introduction to the benefits of mindfulness and meditation techniques featuring interactive exercises

Healthy 30-Minute Meals

Delicious, nutritious, and quick meal ideas. Genius healthy 30-minute meals and easy ways to make your favourite meals healthier.

The 5 Key Factors in Self Care

Science-backed ways to take better care of yourself to support your mental health.

Optimizing Gut + Digestive Health

Natural solutions for improving overall gut health and healing common digestive issues like heartburn, gas, bloating, and IBS.

THE MENTAL WELLNESS SERIES

This is a 4-part lunch and learn series, hosted by our resident psychotherapist (available in-person in the Vancouver area or virtually everywhere else) to dive deep into supporting employees’ mental health.

Session 1 - Intro to Mental Health

An introduction to mental health, where you'll learn about its definition, the factors impacting it, those most affected, risk factors, and participate in an activity to create a personalized mental health plan.

Session 2 - Self Talk & Mental Health

Discover the cognitive-behavioral model of mental health, the role of self-talk, and learn techniques to change self-talk for better mental health, with an activity to practice these techniques in challenging situations.

Session 3 - Self Care & Mental Health

Debunk common self-care myths, understand effective self-care and its role in values, identify personalized self-care activities, and create an individualized self-care plan through an engaging activity.

Session 4 - Identifying and Discussing Mental Health Concerns

Learn to identify mental health changes in yourself and others, discuss mental health inclusively and accurately, navigate conversations about mental health, and practice initiating empathetic and sensitive discussions.

Lunch and Learn and Webinar Topics

Boost energy and reduce stress with our expert Holistic Nutritionists

Eating for Energy

  • Key nutrients to fuel your cells for more get-up-and-go!
  • Wake up with energy and nourishing breakfast ideas
  • Healthy lunch ideas to banish the afternoon slump
  • Snacking principles to boost your energy.

Busting Stress + Boosting Happiness with Nutrition

  • How unchecked stress leads to burnout
  • Key dietary factors that power up your stress resilience
  • How stress depletes nutrients and ways to replenish them with good food
  • Nutritional supplementation to aid in whole body health

Healthy 30-Minute Meals

  • Fast and delicious 30-minute meals
  • Make your meals healthier without losing flavour
  • Helpful tips + tricks for efficiency in the kitchen

5 Key Factors in Self Care

  • Stress management habits and resources for when life get rough
  • How to incorporate more movement into your day (for all fitness levels)
  • Happiness habits and how to implement them
  • How to get more rest to feel calmer, happier, more energized

Optimizing Gut + Digestive Health

  • Natural solutions for heartburn
  • How to identify food sensitivities
  • Easy fixes for bloating, indigestion, and other digestive ailments
  • How gut health is key to your overall health

Natural Cold + Flu Prevention

  • Immune-supporting foods and supplements
  • Natural cold + flu remedies
  • Kicking the winter blues

Healthy Heart, Healthy You

  • Dietary factors for heart health
  • Foods that fight or promote inflammation
  • How to improve cholesterol levels through your diet

Vitamins + Supplements for Optimal Health

  • Which supplements are necessary and which are a waste of money
  • Safe dosages and brands to look for
  • Understanding the specifics of probiotics, magnesium, biotin, collagen, iron and vitamin D
  • Supplements for specific health conditions

Blood Sugar Balance & Diabetes Prevention

  • How to eat for balanced blood sugar
  • How stress, sleep, and exercise impact blood sugar positively and negatively.
  • Tools to better understand your blood sugar
  • Nutrients and supplements proven to reduce blood sugar

Functional Snacks & Drinks to Elevate Your Day

  • Snacking 101 -- what are the best practices
  • 5x 5-min snacks for the work week
  • How hydration impacts performance
  • 6 high-performance drinks you may never have heard of

Thriving Through the Winter Months

  • Specific foods to eat to support your body during the winter
  • Number one hack to improve sleep and energy
  • How to find movement you enjoy during the winter
  • Lifestyle tips to help boost mood

Boost calm and focus with our Meditation Coaches

An Introduction to Mindfulness + Meditation

  • Learn the science behind meditation and its eye-opening proven benefits. Guidance on ways we can all be more mindful every day.
  • Transformative daily practices to incorporate beyond the session
  • In-person meditation and mindfulness exercises

Weekly LIVE Meditations

  • Shorter virtual meditations on a regular basis
  • Custom pricing based on your needs

Focus in the Age of Distraction

  • Participants will learn why we are so easily distracted and what's going on in the brain
  • They will walk away with five practical tools they can implement right away to be more focused
  • Guaranteed outcomes for participants from this webinar include:
  • 30-90 minutes of ‘found’ time in the day,
  • 90-minutes of more productive work during the workday, and
  • Greater end-of-day satisfaction and joy in life.

Tools and Practices for Sustained High-Performance

  • Develop nervous system awareness and learn how to reset your nervous system
  • Learn simple tools and practices to manage your energy throughout the day
  • Become aware of your mental/emotional state and be able to intentionally shift back to a more positive state
  • Learn to adopt a mindset shift of doing fewer things well
  • Get genuine downtime - learn practical, easily implemented practices that create true rest and recovery.

Developing Your Leadership Presence

  • Understand what leadership presence means in the context of organizations today
  • Understand the many barriers that get in the way of our leadership presence
  • Understand why, in times of uncertainty, when motivation, energy, and hope can be low, people are looking for leaders with greater presence.
  • Be able to keep themselves calm and clear minded in the face of uncertainty and change,
  • Be able to connect more authentically with others, and to create greater connection, clarity and confidence for the people on their teams.

Navigate and support mental health issues with our Registered Social Workers and Psychotherapists

Mental Health & Well-Being 101

  • Understand what mental health is and be able to describe it to others
  • Develop knowledge of the key factors that impact mental health
  • Know how to discuss mental health in a way that is empathic, informed and appropriate
  • Be able to take initial steps in bolstering mental health and maximizing your ability to create strategies for both

Prioritizing Self-Care + Work-Life Balance

  • Defining self-care for yourself
  • Bookending your day - practical and customized self-care for you from you
  • Power and protection- how to remain in your power and to protect yourself from outside influences that may throw you off and how to get back on track
  • What does self-care truly mean to you, how to implement it and why is it essential to live a life of balance?

Understanding Anxiety + Managing Stress: Therapeutic Workshop

  • Become more empowered by understanding how anxiety is experienced in the brain and body
  • Identify the events and circumstances that evoke stress responses from your brain and body
  • Practices to recalibrate the nervous system to feel more connected to emotions, and body
  • Build resiliency for yourself and the teams you work with during difficult times

Mental Health Training for Managers

  • Develop an understanding of the key factors that impact mental health for employees within the workplace setting
  • Know how to identify and address mental health problems or changes among employees
  • Learn how to directly discuss mental health concerns with employees in a way that is sensitive, informed, and appropriate

Self Talk & Mental Health

  • Learn the cognitive-behavioural model of mental health
  • Identify the role that self-talk holds in mental health
  • Learn to change self-talk to support mental health
  • Activity: Practice changing self-talk in your "stuck" situations to support you in thriving

Optimize Well-being with our Naturopaths

Optimizing Sleep: Good Nights for Better Days

  • Key reasons for sleep challenges and how to remedy them
  • How to identify and address the root cause of poor sleep
  • Best natural nutrients and supplements to improve sleep
  • Helpful hacks for improving sleep quality

Fueling for Optimal Brain Health

  • How to prevent and treat mental health challenges like anxiety, ADHD, and depression
  • Balanced and wholesome nutrients for your brain that improve focus, clarity, creativity
  • Practices that help maintain memory and treat neurological conditions like Dementia and Alzheimer’s

Balancing Hormones Naturally (Female-focused)

  • The best and worst foods for balanced hormones
  • The common links between PMS, fibroids, cysts, endometriosis and PCOS and what you can do to reduce symptoms naturally
  • Preparing for and handling menopause with ease
  • Understanding functional tests to balance your hormones

The Cortisol Connection

  • Understand the double-edged sword of cortisol in stress, inflammation and immunity
  • How to manage cortisol to achieve optimal weight and body composition
  • How cortisol impacts other hormones, libido and sexual health

Men's Health: Testosterone and Beyond

  • Connecting testosterone with mental health & burnout in the workforce
  • Why testing testosterone is useless, and what to do instead
  • How to optimize vitality through diet, lifestyle, functional and integrative, precision medicine

They Keys to Longevity & Anti-Aging

  • The key processes that drive aging
  • How to combat aging to look and feel your best for as long as possible
  • Key diet, lifestyle and biohacking tips to help you unlock your ability to feel great for the rest of your life

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and Cancer Risk

  • The history of HRT - understanding fact vs. fiction
  • HRT safety and the FDA approval process
  • Answering common questions like "Is HRT safe for those with a history of cancer?"
  • The questions you should be asking your doctor about HRT

Cancer Prevention & Awareness

  • Common types of cancer
  • Cancer prevalence, including those in younger populations you should be aware of
  • How to cancer-proof your environment
  • Cancer screening & frequency
  • What this cancer-focued Naturopath does to reduce cancer risk

Mom Warrior, Dad Hero

  • How to overcome the challenges of becoming a new parent
  • How to prevent "Dad bod"
  • How to get back to looking and feeling your best as a Mom
  • The key lessons in diet and lifestyle to model for your children

Maximizing Productivity & Performance

  • How to finally find “balance” in work, life and play
  • How to overcome the culture of burnout, stress and anxiety
  • How to restore your energy and vitality using personalized and integrative tools

Urban Resilience: Become a Warrior Against Burnout

  • How to manage the ever-increasing pace of our urban world
  • How to maximize performance and productivity in the workplace
  • How to establish a resilience mindset to become a warrior against stress

Testing for Optimal Health

  • Testing for fatigue and low energy to increase vitality
  • How to use hormone-specific testing for men and women to optimize sleep, energy, cycles, brain fog and weight
  • Gut health testing to alleviate common digestive concerns and support mental health

Preventing Pain, Naturally

  • The root causes behind joint and muscle pain
  • Preventing & treating arthritis without medication
  • How to reduce inflammation to reduce pain

Thriving in Peri-Menopause, Menopause & Beyond

  • Preparing for perimenopause and menopause and understanding the signs
  • Dietary choices that positively and negatively impact this phase of life
  • How to improve sleep during this time
  • HRT 101 and its impact on the body

Get your employees moving with our Movement and Ergonomics Specialists

Ergonomics, Stretching, and Pain Management 1.0 and 2.0

  • General anatomy and body awareness
  • Identifying posture and ergonomic issues at work
  • Practical strategies for movement and ergonomics during your workday
  • Postural and mobility exercises that target specific areas of the body
  • *Also available as four separate 15-minute ergonomic and stretching sessions

Live Yoga and Pilates Classes

  • Live yoga or pilates classes from 30-60 minutes hosted by a certified yoga teacher
  • Focus and difficulty level tailored to your people and needs

How to Set-Up Your Workstation (At the Office and At Home)

  • An easy-to-follow demonstration for immediate results
  • Ergonomics tips for any desk set up

Posture and Movement: Why It's Important and How to Prevent Injuries

  • What your posture and movement habits are doing to your body
  • Common posture and movement mistakes
  • How to improve your posture and body mechanics

Sitting All Day? How to Prevent Injuries and Discomfort

  • The science behind sitting, standing, and moving
  • Common issues from sitting too much and how to avoid them
  • Microbreaks and how to use them

Help your employees better communicate and connect with our Relationship Specialist

Workplace Relationships

  • This workshop teaches you how to make any work relationship feel compatible, while helping you build deeper bonds with those around you, and navigate conflicts effectively should they arise
  • Learn how to read people accurately and meet them where they’re at
  • Gain the tools to have difficult conversations with ease

Nervous System Regulation 101

  • This workshop teaches you how to become the master of your own nervous system, manage your stress responses, and identify triggers
  • Identify and manage your reactions and turn them into grounded responses
  • Learn what regulating your nervous system and coming back to “baseline” really looks like

Looking for something not covered here?

We’re happy to customize in-person and virtual lunch + learn sessions or series’ for your office.

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Experienced and Engaging Lunch and Learn Presenters

Natalia Bragagnolo

Registered Holistic Nutritionist + Operations and Engagement Manager

Dr. Jason Marr

Naturopath

Ayah Norris

Yoga + Meditation Teacher, Holistic Healer

Maya Eid

Certified Nutritional Practitioner

Dr Courtney Ranieri

Naturopath

Anna O'Malley

Yoga Teacher + Movement Specialist

Carolyn Anne Budgell

BA, ERYT 200, Kula 75, Prenatal, Yin
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