Employee Wellness

Wellness Wagon
2025-09-09 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-01 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-20 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-13 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-02 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Visiting varied offices from 10am to 12pm and from 12pm to 1pm in the Brighton room.

Welcome Walk with the Tribune Trailblazers
2025-09-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Atrium
Meet in the Atrium for a Welcome Walk with the Tribune Trailblazers! We will be walking from 12pm to 1pm.

Register to Walk

Get in gear for the 5K, another practice walk with the Tribune Trailblazers
2025-09-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Outside the PAC center (near pool)
The Annual 5K Walk/Run for Scholarships is almost here. For anyone who wants to do more walking ahead, we are hosting another group practice walk. The goal is to prepare for the 5K together, regardless of which team anyone is on. We are aiming to walk outside and get at least a mile in.

On Tuesday, September 23rd at noon we are meeting in the PAC center outside of the pool.

Registration appreciated: Wellness Walk Online Registration

Craft Club
2025-09-23 17:15 - 19:00 | Career Services Library 3-108
September 23 from 5:15 to 7:00pm
Project: Sea Glass Framed Art

A decorative framed artwork rests on a textured beige blanket. The wooden frame features a beaded border and encloses an arrangement of six small birds crafted from colored glass pieces in shades of blue, green, yellow, and clear. Each bird is perched on a wine cork, with simple black lines representing their legs and an orange triangle representing their beaks. Above the birds, several small black bird silhouettes appear to be flying. A starfish is affixed to the bottom right corner of the frame.

Register for the Sea Glass Framed Art Project

Tribune Trailblazers Walk
2025-10-13 12:45 - 13:45 | Building 12 Atrium near the Theater
Join the Tribune Trailblazers as they will be doing a campus walk with the school’s therapy dog as their honorary guest.

Location: Bldg. 12 Atrium near Theatre
Time: 12:45
Date: 10/13

Register for the Walk

Financial Presentation #1 - Making Your Money Go Further
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-10-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Empire Room
Topic 1: Making Your Money Go Further with Paul Hutchings and Ryan Miller

This presentation will serve as an introduction to financial wellness, tailored for all ages.

Key takeaways will include:

Creating a step-by-step plan for building financial freedom
Building and maintaining a budget
Paying off debt
Saving and investing
Protecting your plan

Register for the Making Your Money Go Further Session

Craft Club
2025-10-23 17:15 - 19:00 | Career Services Library 3-108
October 23 from 5:15 to 7:00pm
Project: Fall Lantern project

Description: A decorative lantern with a black frame and arched windows is displayed on a textured beige blanket. Inside the lantern, a lit scene showcases bright yellow sunflowers set against a white background with intersecting black lines. The top of the lantern is decorated with autumn-themed elements, including artificial orange and brown leaves, acorns, and straw-like material.

Registration Coming Soon!

Mindful Lunch - Healthy Cooking and Employee Wellness
2025-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Building 3, Room 146
Join the students of FSA 108 for a Mindful Lunch. MCC’s own Renee Dimino and Terry Shamblin will guide you through a reflective dining experience, as you enjoy a healthy vegetarian menu created and prepared by the students of the FSA 108 Healthy Cooking class. Mindful Eating is about focusing on the dining experience while you eat, including the colors, textures, and flavors of the delicious food. Dining in a non-distracting environment allows everyone to savor every bite of their meal and to consider their food choices while they eat.

To give you a sense of how our experience will unfold, here is the path we will be taking together:

12:00 to 12:05 Arriving and settling in
12:05 Meal Gatha and invitation to begin our buffet lunch in silence
12:05 to 12:30 Mindful eating in silence
12:30 to 12:50 Dessert and discussion of the experience of mindful eating

The lunch is on Friday October 24 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm in Food for Thought (building 3 room 146).

Tickets are $5 per person and may be purchased at Food For Thought restaurant from October 6 to October 23 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., or by contacting the Hospitality Office at (585) 292-2542.

Financial Presentation - Planning for Retirement & Building Financial Wellness for Today & Tomorrow
2025-10-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Empire Room
Topic 2: Planning for Retirement with Paul Hutchings and Ryan Miller
This presentation will focus on individuals nearing retirement.

We’ll ensure this session has minimal overlap from Topic 1, so attendees can benefit from both presentations.

Key takeaways will include:

Setting and achieving lifestyle goals
Stress-testing plans for longevity
Setting up tax-efficient income streams
Designing investment strategies tailored to individual risk tolerances
Protecting assets and estate planning

Topic 2: Building Financial Wellness for Today & Tomorrow
This presentation will offer a clear, goal-driven approach to financial planning, helping participants assess where they stand and identify practical next steps.

Highlights include:

How to set and achieve meaningful lifestyle goals
Ways to design investments strategies aligned with your risk comfort
An age-specific guide for each decade from your 20s through your 60s, focusing on:

Key priorities that shouldn’t be overlooked
The most common pitfalls and how to avoid them
How to build (or catch up) on savings and investments
Opportunities that could make a significant long-term impact

Register for a Planning for Retirement & Building Financial Wellness Session

Financial Presentation - Planning for Retirement with Paul Hutchings and Ryan Miller
2025-10-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Empire Room

Carbohydrates – Fact vs. Fiction
2025-10-31 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Empire Room
Carbohydrates – Fact vs. Fiction with Michelle Bartell
Separating Science from Myth to Empower Your Nutrition Choices

Carbohydrates are often at the center of heated debates in health, wellness, and diet culture. From fad diets that advocate cutting out carbs entirely to articles that tout their necessity for energy and brain function, it is easy to get lost in the swirl of conflicting information. In this session we will separate myths from scientific evidence, providing participants with the clarity needed to make informed dietary choices.

Topics will include:

The fundamentals of carbohydrates, including simple and complex carbs, fiber, and how they differ in function and health impact.
Common misconceptions, such as “carbs make you gain weight” or “all carbs are bad.”
Explore how carbohydrates fuel our bodies and contribute to overall well-being.
Review the latest research on carbohydrates’ role in diabetes, heart health, and digestive health.
Whole vs. Refined Carbohydrates: Discover the differences between whole grains and refined carbs, and their respective impacts on health.
Low-Carb Diets: Get the facts on popular low-carb diets like keto and paleo—what does the science say about their long-term health effects?
Q&A Session

Register for a Carbohydrates – Fact vs. Fiction session

Employee Pickleball
2025-10-31 12:15 - 13:45, 2025-11-21 12:15 - 13:45 | Gymnasium, Building 10
MCC Employee Wellness jumps into another session of Pickleball! No matter your knowledge or ability you are welcome to play. Join in for a single game or a full session. We ask those that may know the rules of play to share their knowledge and experience with those who may be new to the sport.

Time: 12:15pm to 1:45pm
Where: Gymnasium, building 10
What: Open Pickleball

Pickleball equipment is available for use. Feel free to bring your spouse. A waiver will need to be completed upon arrival if one hasn’t already been filled out. Please consider warming up before play, wearing athletic clothing and footwear, as well as bringing a water bottle to hydrate.

Employee Pickleball
2025-11-07 12:15 - 13:45 | Gymnasium, Building 10
Employee Pickleball
MCC Employee Wellness jumps into another session of Pickleball! No matter your knowledge or ability you are welcome to play. Join in for a single game or a full session. We ask those that may know the rules of play to share their knowledge and experience with those who may be new to the sport.

Time: 12:15pm to 1:45pm
Where: Gymnasium, building 10
What: Open Pickleball

Pickleball equipment is available for use. Feel free to bring your spouse. A waiver will need to be completed upon arrival if one hasn’t already been filled out. Please consider warming up before play, wearing athletic clothing and footwear, as well as bringing a water bottle to hydrate.

Biometric Screening by Wegmans
2025-11-13 11:00 - 14:00 | Forum
Register for a Biometric Screening by Wegmans

Knife Skills and Beyond: Healthy Carbs Cooking Class
2025-11-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Hospitaliity Department (Building 3 Room 140)
Join Michelle Bartell and Angela Douglas of the MCC Hospitality Management Department in this hands-on cooking class which builds upon knife skills to create a healthy plant-forward meal. We will explore how healthy carbs are important in the management of diet-related chronic diseases, such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes.

Come join us on Friday November 14 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Hospitality Department kitchen in Building 3 room 140. This event is free to all participants and is open to all MCC employees. For your safety in the kitchen, please wear covered-toed shoes with non-slip bottoms-tennis shoes/sneakers are great! Feel free to bring your favorite apron as well.

Register for Knife Skills & Beyond

Financial Presentation – Planning for Retirement & Building Financial Wellness for Today & Tomorrow
2025-11-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Empire Room

Carving Out Time for Yourself During the Holidays
2025-11-20 12:30 - 13:00 | Zoom
Carving Out Time for Yourself During the Holidays: Self-Care Tips for Emotional and Physical Well-Being.
Take time for yourself during the busy holidays can help you recharge and manage stress. Learn practical tips to support yourself in this season. This session will include a guided mindfulness practice.

Register for Guided Mindfulness Session

9 to 5 The Musical – Dinner & Play
2025-11-21 17:30 - 21:30 | North Atrium
Friday, November 21 – Dinner and A Play – 9 to 5 the Musical

Dinner: 5:30 pm North Atrium
Play: 7:30 pm MCC Theatre

Enjoy a night of theatre starting off with a free dinner with your colleagues! Employee Wellness is partnering with VAPA to host a free dinner for employees before the Friday evening performance of the MCC Fall Play performed by MCC students. And you can bring one guest age 17 or older at no charge! Plus enjoy the Mercer Gallery too. Don’t miss free food, time with friends , family and colleagues …and supporting our students!
This year’s play is “9 to 5 The Musical” based on the hit movie in 1980 starring Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda. Set in the late 1970s, it is a hilarious story of friendship and revenge against their egotistical, conniving boss. For extra drama, we encourage attendees to dress in their best 80s look – big hair and shoulder pads welcome!!!
RSVP for the dinner. Space is limited so don’t wait! RSVP deadline is Monday, November 17. If bringing a guest, please RSVP for them as well.
A Coffee Break Raffle!
A fun raffle related to the play will support the Mary P. Nolan Scholarship Fund. This year’s theme is your 9-5 coffee break. Enter to win a coffee-themed basket along with a fun piece of art donated by MCCs own Sue Greipp from Student Accounts. The basket will include coffee break goodies including a single service coffee pot, k-cups, gift cards and more! Raffle Tickets will be sold at the dinner and at the Open Enrollment Session on Wednesday, November 12 at noon in Building 8-200 on Brighton Campus. Tickets start at just $1!
Tickets for the play are priced as follows:

MCC Student (ID required) $8
MCC Faculty and Staff ((ID required) $10
General Public $12

Tickets can be purchased at the door, online through OvationTix or by scanning the QR code below.

Healthy Holiday Habits
2025-11-24 - 2026-01-07 | Online
The Challenge is to maintain or attain your target weight throughout the holiday season (11/27/25 through 1/7/26). Registrations begins 11/24 through 11/26. To register, e-mail Employee Wellness (MCCWellness@monroecc.edu) with Healthy Holiday Habits in the subject line, registration is free.

Tiny Turkey Trek
2025-11-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Atrium
Where will the turkeys be hiding? Join the Trailblazers on Wednesday 11/26 to find out! We will meet in the Atrium near the Bookstore.

RSVP for the Tiny Turkey Trek!

Mindful Monday Meditation
2025-12-01 12:30 - 12:45 | Zoom
Join your EAP for Mindful Monday Meditation in December! Mindfulness practices have many benefits, including reducing stress, boosting mood, focus and resilience. These short sessions will help set a positive tone for your week. Participants will be guided through a different practice each week.

Register for the Mindful Monday Meditation
