GRIFFON 360

Griffon 360 encourages all Griffons to view health and wellness from a holistic perspective, targeting eight main areas of wellness.

Physical

Physical Wellness is maintained by good nutrition, regular exercise, making informed and responsible decisions about health, avoiding harmful habits, and seeking medical assistance when necessary.

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Understand how and why your body works
Feel comfortable with your physical appearance
Make informed choices about your body and sexuality
Feel competent at physical activities
Develop well-balanced and healthy eating habits
Become a responsible drinker or a non-drinker
Become aware of how a lack of sleep, stress, and non-activity affect your body
Become aware of how food, beverages, drugs, chemicals, additives, and caffeine affect your body
Engage in regular movement to improve flexibility, strength, aerobic, and cardiovascular health.
Develop and cultivate leisure activities
Seek medical care when needed for illness, injury and preventative care

Spiritual

Spiritual Wellness involves our personal values and beliefs that provide a purpose in our lives.

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Explore your personal values
Question and clarify your values
Become aware of how values develop and change from life experiences
Become aware of the differences in others’ values
Search for meaning in your own life
Develop integrity by acting in ways that are consistent with your values
Explore the issues related to mortality and your own life and death

Emotional

Emotional Wellness is being attentive to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, whether positive or negative.

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Become more aware of your feelings and accept them as valid indicators of what you are experiencing
Develop the ability to experience and appropriately express a wide range of emotions such as humor, joy, fear, anger, frustration, appreciation, sadness, etc.
Develop assertiveness and confrontation skills
Develop positive feelings about yourself by instituting a healthy self-esteem and self-concept
Develop the skills to handle stress, irritations, crises, etc.
Explore and clarify your own sexual identity
Develop, establish, and maintain intimate and loving relationships

Environmental

Environmental Wellness involves occupying pleasant, stimulating environments that support well-being.

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Become aware of how your external environment affects you.
Redesign your environments to more effectively support and reinforce your needs.
Be concerned about the future of local, national and world ecology and climate.
Minimize your contribution to the destruction of the outdoor environment.

Financial

Financial Wellness is discovering and using the tools and information available to make smart and informed decisions while in school and beyond.

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Learning how to gain control of your finances so they work for you.
Understanding how to manage a budget, credit cards, checking and savings accounts, investments, retirement funds, etc.
Handling finances without too much stress.
Setting and making progress toward your short- and long-term goals.
Not spending too much time and effort handling your finances.
Know the resources available to you on campus to help if you are experiencing a financial issue such as food insecurity, homelessness, economic crisis, or financial management.

Occupational

Occupational Wellness involves finding purpose and meaning through work reflecting your career ambitions, professional satisfaction, and job performance.

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Increase your awareness of the wide variety of major/career opportunities available to you
Challenge societal sex role and other barriers that limit major/career choices
Explore your interests, skill, and values and needs and how they relate to major/career choice
Choose a major/career direction that reflects your values, preferences, interests and skills
Understand the relationship between your major/career choice and other parts of your life such as with your family, spouse/partner, leisure activities, friends.
Develop effective job-related skills in assertiveness, confrontation, feedback, time management, active listening, motivation, etc.
Understand how many people change their major in college and their career directions many times throughout their lives

Social

Social Wellness refers to your ability to interact with people, respect yourself and others, develop meaningful relationships, contribute to your community, and develop quality communication skills.

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Develop the ability to create and maintain close friendships
Feel comfortable interacting with diverse individuals and groups
Become aware of your responsibilities for the welfare of different communities
Understand and accept those with a different sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, life experience, etc.
Understand the concepts of sex and gender role stereotyping and explore appropriate sex and gender role behavior for yourself
Develop a “global consciousness” by recognizing the interrelatedness of cultural, global and national issues and needs
Work toward becoming a responsible world citizen

Intellectual

Intellectual Wellness is finding a way to engage in creative and stimulating activities that allow you to share your gifts and expand your knowledge.

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Strive to be open to new experiences and ideas in all areas of your life
Expand your ability to create, develop, analyze, critique, concentrate, understand, evaluate, problem solve, predict, comprehend, etc.
Feel competent in intellectual and academic activities by improving your skills in academics, studying, time management, stress management, note taking, listening, and public speaking.
Develop a love for learning and philosophy for “life-long learning”
Untaking leadership roles and the responsibilities, and tasks affiliated within said role.