News Room | August 2007 Newsletter

August 2007 Newsletter

Workplace wellness solutions through peer educator training

As a workplace wellness consultant for the past 12 years, and having recently completed the first round of peer educator training in a mining setting, I’ve come to realise again that peer educator training is probably the most effective way to spread the wellness message, and the only effective way to ultimately change and maintain lasting health behaviour. Peer educator training has been used as a global strategy to address the HIV/Aids pandemic. It could, however, also be even more successfully and extensively used to change awareness and behaviour in all the chronic diseases of lifestyle (CDL’s). The sooner HIV/Aids is globally regarded as one of the CDL’s, the sooner the stigma will disappear. Employees who are HIV+ will no longer feel marginalised and all employees will feel more positive towards an approach that addresses all of their health challenges and concerns……read more

Women and stress

Women experience and react to stress differently than men do. Both men and women experience stress with its related health problems and risk implications. Most, if not all illnesses and ailments have an underlying current of long term stress at the source. Some problems related to stress affect only women……read more

August’s exciting workshops!

Cost for all workshops: R250 pp.
To book your space: arienvdm@gmail.com 078 698 8535 or 012 460 0191.
Venue for all workshops: Centre for Health & Wellbeing
Head Office Address:
21 Twentieth St
Menlo Park
Pretoria