Wellness Wheel Ideas
from the 2007 Professional Leaders Conference participants

Vocational

• Day off (2 days off!)

• Attend PLC

• Professional & societal news

• Retreats

• In retirement, seek volunteer work

• Professional meetings/support

• Continue to find new ways of doing things

• Via Di Cristo

• Text study group

• Yearly pilgrimage to discover what I should do and then doing it as if it were the last year of my life

• Parenting/grand parenting

• Video eye on computer to stay connected to family at distance

• Conferences

• Friends teach each other

• Classes

• Periscope study group

• Schedule continuing ed now!

• Continuing ed

• We’re here!

• Vigilant on days off

• Read

• Annual conference which rekindles passion of call

Physical

• Bike

• Cardio work out

• Walk

• Run

• Walk pet

• Sleep

• Eat well

• Sing

• Work out at a club that has childcare

• Swim

• Weight watchers

• Treadmill at home

• Choose to move

• Relaxation exercises

• Yoga

• Take vitamins

• Basketball

• Golf

• Walk

• Exams

• Vitamins

• Regular check-ups & screening tests

• Free comm. Seminars

• Bring healthy lunch from home instead of eating out

• Get baselines from your doctor for tests

• Exercise

• Well-balanced diet

• Via Di Cristo

• Play golf

• Lift weights

• Chiropractor

• Paint

Spiritual

• Daily devotions

• Prayer

• Professional leaders conference

• Via Di Cristo

• Worship

• Spiritual direction

• Text study

• Mediation

• Bible reading

• Worship with others elsewhere

• Bible study group

• Massage therapy

• Meeting with a spiritual director

• Support groups

• Tithing

• Listen to “Bread for the Journey”

• Realize I’m loved and accepted by God

• Read the mystics

• “Lectio Divina”

• Read poetry

• Journaling

• Prayer

• Retreats

• “Daily Texts”

• Drama group

• Loving god

Emotional

• Dwell on satisfactions

• Naming emotions

• Have anomyous presence

• Smile

• Read mystery novels

• something done from beginning to end

• Listen to music

• Hobby

• Via Di Cristo

• Attend family gatherings

• Laugh

• Language to express grief

• Time to rest

• Music

• Sports

• Staff relations

• Punch a pillow

• Take vacation

• Vegetable gardening

• Music

• Sewing

• Play with pets

• Comedy (ha ha!)

• Walk with spouse

• Spiritual director/mentor

• Visit family & friends

• Al-anon

• Prayer

• Rest/Sabbath time

• TV

• Bike

• Watch Seinfeld

• Work out

• Scream

• Healthy family relationships

• Increase childcare!

• Get a housekeeper

• Spiritual director

• See a counselor

• Color a picture

• Plant a flower

• Go swimming

• Text studies

• Watch CSI & Gray’s Anatomy

• Have a confidante

• Hobbies

Intellectual

• Read

• Be in conversation

• Text study

• Get out and engage in cultural activities

• Puzzles

• Teach

• Via Di Cristo

• Learning about social outreach programs

• Take “reading days” if you haven’t used continuing education time by end of year

• Listen to NPR

• Log onto Writers’ Almanac

• Theatre

• Spending time with spouse, grandchildren, & friends

• Retreats – intellectually & spiritual challenging

• Attend concerts

• Center for learning and retirement

• Wartburg Tri-State forum

• Illowa Lectures

• Always have a novel in progress

• Read theological spiritual journals

• Subscribe to magazines

• Text studies

• Designing (hobby)

• Continuing ed

• Reading

• Games

• Sudoku

• Bible study

• Read

• Films

• Conferences

• Video courses

• Travel

• Continuing ed

• Listen to news

• Read

• Journal

• Crossword puzzles

Social

• Spouse dates

• Grandchildren

• Lunch with friends

• Band parenting

• Poker group

• Via Di Cristo

• Writing

• Calling friends

• Family

• Sporting events

• Movie night

• Date with spouse or friends

• Family/spouse time

• Time with friends

• Weekly family email

• Sunday lunches with friends

• Meeting with extended family

• Have a beer with friends

• Walk with a friend

• Book club

• Golf

• Rotary

• Girl scout leader

• School district involvement

• Theater

• Participate in groups

• Training buddy

• Bible study groups

• Conference meetings

• Boy scouts

• Band parent

• Service clubs

• Community band

• Alumni group

• Travel

• Dishwashing talks

Things the Synod can do to help with Wellness

• Meet ½ hr before conference meetings to walk

• Encouraging/supporting spiritual direction and/or have a “pastor” for each pastor

• Share the lists

• Info on ELCA/Mayo site about weight training that can be done without equipment that costs big bucks

• Have seminary insurance cover wellness care

• Talk to seminarians about leader wellness while  in seminary

• Identify tax people to assist pastors with special advantages

• Follow up with congregations to see if they act on the bishop’s mission gathering info

• Spousal placement

• Child care tax benefit – pre-tax dollars

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